China Wireless News
China is now the largest mobile economy by numbers of users despite a slow start – it only rolled out 3G from 2008 and 3G penetration remains fairly low. The country restructured its telecoms operators to create three fixed/wireless carriers and this change has stimulated growth along with the much delayed auctions of 3G spectrum. China Mobile is the market leader but in 3G, is seeing its lead squeezed by its rivals, partly because it was forced to use the home-grown technology, TD-SCDMA, which has limited ecosystem. The second player is China Unicom, which uses W-CDMA and is forming partnerships with operators outside China, such as Telefonica. China Mobile is also outward looking and forming strategic alliances, notably with Vodafone and Verizon, which will help spur its plans to move quickly to the TD-LTE standard for 4G services. The third cellco is China Telecom, which focuses on the CDMA platform. China is also becoming a key country on the vendor side, with Huawei challenging Ericsson for leadership of the infrastructure business and ZTE growing rapidly in handsets. These suppliers are helping China in its goal of becoming more self-sufficient in technology and patents.
LG aims to steal a march in TD-LTE smartphones
The ecosystem is building for the TDD flavor of LTE, but is still being heavily driven by China Mobile's very particular requirements. Despite the home advantage that may give Huawei and ZTE, Ericsson ...
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Alibaba revives its Google-free Android OS
17 April, 2013
Renames its platform Amos and announces five partners, targeting growing market of low cost Chinese suppliers
Qualcomm gains Chinese share with reference design
4 April, 2013
QRD program now has 40 customers, mainly in China, and powers over 170 commercial devices
Lenovo may set up its own chip unit
3 April, 2013
Chinese vendor aims to expand in smartphones, with an NEC acquisition and homegrown processors among the options
Competition squeezes China Mobile's profit
15 March, 2013
World's largest cellco sees declining profit growth in 2012, and its lowest revenue rise for three years
China could get 4G licences this year
8 March, 2013
Government looks set to accelerate LTE pace and step up support for commercial roll-outs from late 2013
Chinese government slams Google's Android control
6 March, 2013
China is too dependent on the OS, says new report, and Google discriminates against local developers
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