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Unicom Revenue Up 3% YoY In First 9 Months

China Unicom announced financials for the first three quarters of 2008 on Thursday. The company booked total revenue of RMB 52.48 billion, up 3% year-on-year, with GSM contributing revenue of RMB 48.5 billion. Company profit was RMB 6.99 billion, up 34.9% from RMB 5.18 billion in the first nine months of 2008, with basic earnings per share of RMB 0.51.

China Unicom completed the transfer of its CDMA business to China Telecom for RMB 43.8 billion on October 1.

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New China Unicom To Establish Mobile Internet Subsidiary For 3G

China Unicom announced plans on Monday to establish a mobile Internet subsidiary for 3G network construction and maintenance. China Unicom plans to spend RMB 100 billion to construct a combined 2G/3G network in the next two to three years.

China Unicom now has 28 departments in its company headquarters. The telecom company previously announced plans to reduce departments to 17 from more than 45 and establish only marketing-related departments in its south China subsidiaries.

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China Telecom On WiFi/CDMA Strategy

China Telecom plans to begin pre-commercial service of its WiFi/CDMA business in the first quarter of 2009. China Telecom is negotiating cooperation with Shanghai Media Group for WiFi/CDMA and plans to expand the business to include in-home WiFi and CDMA mobile complex application packages. A new service targeting personal mobile users, "Tian Yi," is scheduled to be released during the first quarter of 2009, reports 163.com. China Telecom began to testing its WiFi handsets in October and plans to cover 25,000 WiFi hotspots before the end of 2008.

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La Publicité sur Mobile : l'Opinion des Consommateurs

Une étude sur les SMS et MMS publicitaires qui est réalisée par JDN est très intéressante, on trouvera le comportement des consommateurs vis-à-vis de la publicité sur l'Internet mobile.

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Lenovo, China Mobile To Release Google Android Handset

Lenovo Mobile plans to partner with China Mobile to release a handset based on the Google Android mobile operating system between February and March of 2009, reported by Lenovo Mobile brand communication department general manager Wang Yan at P&T/Expo Comm China 2008. The event is being held in Beijing from October 21 through 25.

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MIIT Releases TD-SCDMA User Statistics

China has 300,000 TD-SCDMA users, reported by Han Xia, vice director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's (MIIT) Telecom Administration Bureau on October 22.

China Mobile is targeting 400,000 TD-SCDMA users before the end of 2008. Company president Wang Jianzhou said China Mobile had 175,000 TD-SCDMA network users by August 24 - 104,000 free trial users, 60,000 Olympic users and 11,000 TD-SCDMA handset users subscribing to the GSM network.

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Telecom Subsidiary Offering CDMA Promotion

China Telecom subsidiary Chongqing Telecom began allowing fixed-line users to call select CDMA numbers for free in mid-October. CDMA users can choose two fixed-line numbers that will then be able to call their mobile number for free, while fixed-line users can choose two CDMA numbers to which they can make free outgoing calls. Fixed-line users can change one of their selected CDMA numbers each month.

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Chinese Telecoms Sector September User Data

China Mobile added 7.25 million new subscribers to its network in September to reach 436.12 million total subscribers.

China Telecom lost 630,000 fixed-line users to record a total of 212.97 million fixed-line subscribers in the same month. The company gained 730,000 broadband subscribers to reach 42.18 million total broadband users.

China Unicom added 1.27 million GSM subscribers in September to reach 130.73 million GSM users. The company's CDMA business lost 626,000 users to reach 41.73 million by the end of the ninth month.

China Netcom added 607,000 broadband Internet users and lost 472,000 fixed-line phone subscribers in September. China Netcom had a total of 24.86 million broadband and 107.33 million fixed-line users by the end of the period.

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China Telecom Offering CDMA In 1,300 Locations

China Telecom said that 1,300 of its service locations currently offer CDMA business, reports China Business News. All of its Shanghai, Chongqing, Hainan and Zhejiang province branches are included on the list. China Telecom completed the purchase of China Unicom's CDMA business on October 1.

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MIIT: China Exceeds 84M Mobile Internet Users

China has 84.5 million mobile Internet users, 30% of the domestic Internet user total, reported by Yang Zeming, director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's (MIIT) China Academy of Telecommunications Research. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported that China had 253 million Internet users - including 73.05 million mobile Internet users - by the end of June.

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