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March 12, 2010

Motorola rolls out Android phones with Bing

US vendor Motorola will roll out Android smartphones in China that incorporate the Bing search engine by the end of the month.
 
Motorola said yesterday it will add Bing search and map functions to its Android-powered smartphones, as part of a global

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March 2, 2010

Aggressive pricing to drive China smartphone sales

OvumThe three Chinese mobile operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, have been planning to launch their own smartphone offerings since 3G licenses were awarded in 2009.

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February 23, 2010

Unicom: We might take Nitel stake

China Unicom says it is interested “exploring the possibility” of taking an equity stake in state-owned Nigerian telco Nitel.
 
But so far, its European arm has only “indicated its interest” in providing technical and management support for the deal, China Unicom HK

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February 19, 2010

Unicom not behind $2.5b Nitel bid

Neither the listed arm of China Unicom or its parent are part a consortium that has offered $2.5 billion for a 75% stake in state-owned telco Nitel.
 
The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) said earlier this week that Unicom-backed New Generation Telecommunications had emerged as the preferred bidder for Nitel. 
 

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February 17, 2010

Unicom in bid to buy Nigerian telco: report

China Unicom has joined a syndicate bidding $2.5 billion to take control of stricken Nigerian telco Nitel.
 

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February 9, 2010

FASTTAKES: Sony Ericsson, HTC, Acer, Ericsson, China Unicom

Sony Ericsson has appointed Kristian Tear as head of global sales & marketing, replacing Anders Runevad, who will return to Ericsson after three years in the post.

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February 1, 2010

Convergence is on the way in China – or is it?

OvumA recent announcement by China’s State Council sets out a clear timetable for convergence and requests comprehensive government policies and national implementation plans (including financing, administration, tax incentives and techno

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Unicom warns of 50% profit dive

Filed under: 3G, China, China Unicom, Daily News, Earnings, Public, W-CDMA, Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

High 3G rollout costs are partly to blame for China Unicom’s latest warning that its earnings could fall by more than half.

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January 21, 2010

China Mobile tops the list of mobile subscription in December

Filed under: 3G, ASIA, China, China Mobile, China Unicom, Mobile, operator — Editor @ 7:12 pm

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 8.89 million mobile customers were added by China’s communications firms in December, with the total of  723.86 million mobile users. China Unicom had a total of 145.49 million mobile customers by December 2009, which comprised 144.85 million 2G subscribers and 2.74 million 3G customers. 1.56 million new subscribers were added by Unicom in a [...]

January 18, 2010

Android launch delayed by China Unicom

Filed under: 3G, ASIA, Android, Apple, China, China Unicom, Google, Mobile, Motorola, Samsung, WCDMA, iPhone — Editor @ 6:02 pm

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The launch of the first Android powered handsets of China Unicom, due to be released on January 20 has been indefinitely delayed. The announcement for the postponement came after Google’s decision to exit [Content protected for Silver members only]

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