China Mobile expresses interest in Apple’s iPad
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After making a super hit sale in the USA market, iPad is ready to take up the rest of the world with big mobile operators eying the new Apple device. The world’s biggest mobile phone operator by subscribers, China Mobile has expressed its desire to sell the iPad and its talks with Apple over the sale of iPhones were still ongoing.
China Mobile has openly disclosed its interest in iPad and it has been in constant talks with Apple over cooperation issues. By having the right to sell iPad, China Mobile wants to provide e-text to Chinese users, as it is developing an electronic book business. Though Apple iPad has not made its official entry in the Asian market yet, a “grey market” trade in the touch screen portable tablet computer has boomed in stores from Singapore to Seoul to Beijing.
The much-anticipated gadget was launched by the California-based firm on the US domestic market last month. It announced that it will be offered for the first time outside the United States on May 28 in nine countries including Japan. It was to satisfy the demand for the iPhone that China’s grey market in Apple products came into existence. The iPhone was officially introduced in the country in October by China Mobile’s rival China Unicom that too more than two years after its US launch.
According to China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile, which had 539 million users at of the end of March, still hoped to provide the iPhone to its customers and the key issue at the moment is that it would like the new-generation iPhones to use TD-SCDMA standard. China’s home-grown standard for 3G telecom services, TD-SCDMA, or Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access is a technology that can transmit images and video at high speeds.
China’s 3G handset market to gear up by subsidies
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The domestic shipments of 3G handsets in China is expected to boost up in 2010 because of aggressive subsidies from wireless carriers that reduce consumer pricing for cell phones. The shipments may go up to 42.97 million units in 2010, up from 7.2 million in 2009.
According to a research analyst, because of the subsidies, phones using the Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) air standard that is backed by the Chinese government will generate the bulk of growth in 2010. Domestic shipments of TD-SCDMA phones will rise to 20.4 million units in 2010, up from 1.3 million in 2009.
The price of the 3G cell phones becomes more attractive due to these subsidies and is expected to drive up sales despite the lack of value-added data services for the TD-SCDMA air standard.
China Mobile, expected to offer the phones to the public might increase its total subsidies to consumers to RMB30 billion in 2010, up from RMB12 billion in 2009.
Nepal Telecom aspires to achieve 60% penetration by 2014
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A striving network expansion programme to raise overall teledensity in Nepal to 60% by 2014 has been aspired by state-owned national fixed line and mobile operator Nepal Telecom (Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited, or NT).
According to NT deputy managing director Anoopranjan Bhattarai, the company hopes to hit its target through an aggressive marketing and assurance of service quality campaign and if the plan materializes, over 30 million people will be using the services of NT by 2014.
An Internet Protocol Code Division Multiple Access (IP CDMA) system could also be installed by NT which will have capacity for three million subscribers, besides, implementing an early launch of CDMA2000 1xEvDO technology boasting maximum transfer speeds of 3Mbps.
Its existing wireless networks are limited to around 155kbps.
Taiwan launches 3G network using Chinese technology
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China lauded the successful launch of 3G mobile network using Chinese TD-SCDMA technology in Taiwan. It considered it as a successful display of the technological partnership of the two countries.
After several trips made by officials from China to Taiwan, the launch of the network was possible. Chairman of the world’s largest mobile network operator, China Mobile, spent several days in Taipei to promote TD-SCDMA.
Vibo Telecom, a 3G mobile operator in Taiwan launched the TD-SCDMA trial network on Tuesday in Taipei and became one of the few companies running a TD-SCDMA trial outside of China.
According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the trial of TD-SCDMA network in Taiwan, local handset makers and network equipment developers will get a good place to test TD-SCDMA devices. The ministry also said that Taiwanese and Chinese companies can research ways to install WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) technology alongside TD-SCDMA technology thus gaining experience in dual-network compatibility.
China Mobile, Larger Than Vodafone, May Say Net Rose (Update2)
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest cellular operator by market value, may report a 23 percent gain in second-quarter profit after adding a record number of subscribers.
The Beijing-based company, which overtook Vodafone Group Plc as the world’s largest mobile company by market capitalization last month, will report net income rose to 15.7 billion yuan ($2 billion) from 12.8 billion yuan a year earlier, according to the median estimate of six analysts in a Bloomberg survey. China Mobile is scheduled to report earnings tomorrow after the 4 p.m.market close in
Hong Kong.
Chief Executive Wang Jianzhou raised revenue by offering a wider range of wireless phone services such as movie and video downloads and targeting the more than 900 million people living in
China’s rural areas. The mobile operator added 13.1 million users in the second quarter, gaining a record number for three straight months to June.
“With the continued growth of subscribers and strong growth of data revenue,” earnings will keep rising, said Mandy Chan, who helps manage $1 billion at ABN Amro Asset Management Ltd. in Hong Kong, including China Mobile shares.
China Mobile attracted users after it received approval from the telecommunication regulator to cut rates and offer cheaper monthly packages for cell-phone users in
Beijingstarting May. The operator also reduced international roaming charges in the provinces of
Sichuanand
Zhejiang.
The phone operator is expected to report half-year profit rose to 30.2 billion yuan from 24 billion yuan a year earlier, analysts said.
Share Price China Mobile’s market capitalization on July 11 was $132 billion, compared with Newbury, England-based Vodafone’s $110 billion. The Chinese company’s shares have risen 38 percent this year, compared with a 23 percent decline in Vodafone stock.
“The share price reflects the market’s view of the prospects of the companies in the future,” Francis Cheung, an analyst at CLSA Ltd., said. “There’s more growth potential in
Chinathan in
Europe, where the market is more mature.” China Mobile, which lags behind Vodafone and
Japan’s NTT Docomo Inc. in sales, may say second-quarter revenue rose to 69.4 billion from 59.6 billion yuan a year earlier.
The company, which offers global system for mobile communications, or GSM, services, gained 25.8 million subscribers in the first six months of the year for a total of 273.8 million, about two-thirds of the nation’s mobile-phone users. That’s more than Vodafone’s 186.8 million users and Docomo’s 51.9 million combined by the end of July.
User Revenue China Unicom Ltd., the country’s second-largest mobile operator, offers services using both the GSM and code division multiple access standards. Unicom had a total of 135.1 million users at the end of June. China Mobile’s average revenue per customer, or ARPU, an industry measure of the size of a phone bill, probably remained unchanged in the second quarter from a year earlier, and up from the previous quarter, analysts said.
We expect China Mobile’s ARPU to be driven by higher usage and wireless data contribution,” Kelvin Ho, an analyst at Nomura International (
Hong Kong) Ltd. said. Ho estimates China Mobile’s ARPU will be about 90 yuan in the second quarter, unchanged from a year earlier, and up from 86 yuan in the previous quarter. Usage per subscriber probably rose 10.8 percent from a year earlier to 363 minutes per month. Chief Executive Wang, 57, is boosting revenue from new businesses such as short message services, ringtone downloads and wireless services such as emails and games.
Data Services New businesses from such wireless data services may account for 23 percent of revenue in the first six months, compared with 19.7 percent a year earlier, Ho said. Competition also eased as fixed-line phone network operators China Telecom Corp. and China Network Communications Group Corp., slowed promotions of a city-wide cordless service called Little Smart, which has cheaper rates than for cellular calls, as they prepare for the government’s issuing of high-speed wireless licenses.
Chinahasn’t set a timetable for granting licenses for 3G services, which allow subscribers to video conference and download movies faster on their handsets. The Ministry of Information Industry on Jan. 20 said it has adopted the locally developed time division synchronous code division multiple access standard as one of the so-called third- generation services. “A 3G license could be further delayed into second half 2007, which implies the 2007 could be another safe year for China Mobile, and the company could still deliver stellar results until the beginning of 2008,” Wang Jinjin, an analyst at UBS Securities Co. said in a report. China Mobile shares rose 1.5 percent to HK$52.10 as of middayin
Hong Kong, after gaining as much as 1.7 percent earlier.
Source- http://www.bloomberg.com
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