China Unicom and China Mobile unveil operating systems

Update – June 10, 2009: Interesting factoid from Ultimi Barbarorum… China Unicom will be building 125,000 base stations in the first 12 months of their W-CDMA 3G network rollout. That’s more 3G base stations than all the operators in Western Europe have rolled out in the 9 years since the 3G wireless standard has been in existence.
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Dell planning to launch two TD-SCDMA phones?

花花公子 it’s a Dell TD Phone!
 
iPhonAsia comment: According to a report on Sina.com.cn, Dell is planning to build two new TD-SCDMA smartphones for China Mobile. Like several new customized TD smartphones (Levono, HTC, Nokia) being developed for China Mobile, the Dell phone mobile operating system (MOS) will be Android-based and specially coded to exclusively support China [...]

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Google retains mobile search business with China Mobile

 
Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) China announced that it has renewed a contract to provide search technology support for China Mobile’s (NYSE:CHL, 941.HK) mobile application service Monternet. The companies formed a two-year partnership in January 2007. 
Google China also agreed to provide mobile search for Sina’s (Nasdaq:SINA) wireless application protocol service (wap.sina.com.cn), the company said. Tencent (700.HK) and WAP [...]

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China Mobile and Apple – “whose app store is it?”

iPhonAsia comment: China Mobile has made no secret of their intent to build their own app store and promote their own value added services (VAS) platform (Monternet), their wireless music services platform (www.12530.com)  and their brand new Web 2.0 platform - similar to MobileMe.  China Mobile  made 27% of their revenue in 2008 through their VAS and they don’t want [...]

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China Mobile: Tea Leaves Give Mixed Reading

Here (below) is iPhonAsia’s comment to Ryan Barnes’ article China Mobile: Tea Leaves Give Mixed Reading, published on Seeking Alpha, November 27, 2008.  Read > HERE
Nice article Ryan … 
I thought it was interesting to read recent comments from China Mobile’s CEO re Apple’s App Store … Wang Jianzhou gave Apple and Steve Jobs kudos for the [...]

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Accenture brought in to consult on China Mobile’s “customized” TD handsets?

iPhonAsia Comment: What is “customization” in the context of the wireless handset market? Mobile operators often make direct purchases from handset manufacturers (ZTE, Nokia, Apple?) and then brand (carrier’s logo) and customize the phones to make them more “appealing” (or so the carrier’s like to believe) to consumers or more directly support the carrier’s value added [...]

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Huawei and Google promote wireless carriers’ value-added-services

Huawei developing software to enhance telecom carriers’ value-added services on next-generation (high speed) networks.
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It is no secret that China Mobile wants to drive handset owners’ usage of the Monternet value-added services platform (music, mobile TV, video, search, etc.).
To aid China Mobile and other carriers, Huawei recently announced that they will launch a new division to facilitate the [...]

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Two China carriers for iPhone?

Update 5/29/08: iPhonAsia has reviewed numerous current reports which indicate that the newly formed China Uniom/Netcom will receive W-CDMA 3G when telecom restructuring dust has settled (in 3 to 18 mos). If this proves true, China Unicom may become an alternative to China Mobile as a partner for Apple (iPhone) in China.  It may also be possible [...]

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