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Nokia Lumia 925 – Full Technical Specs
The latest addition to Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 powered Lumia range
Launched in London on May 14th 2013 as the follow up to the Nokia Lumia 920. In addition to Europe with Vodafone, the Nokia Lumia 925 will be introduced into the USA by T-Mobile and into China by China Mobile and China Unicom. Sales are expected to start in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and China in June 2013, followed by the USA and a number of other markets. The Nokia Lumia 925 will be priced around €469 before taxes and subsidies. Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Vodafone, WP8, nokia, t-mobile
Tagged China Mobile, China Unicom, Lumia 925
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China Mobile audit unearths accountancy ‘problems’
Suggestions of graft and inflated sales
China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile operator by subscribers, has revealed it is overhauling its accounting practices and internal management after a government audit hinted at problems. In recent years several executives and former executives of group parent China Mobile Communications – an unlisted company – have been investigated by Beijing officials amid reports of bribery, according to Chinese media reports. Continue reading
Banks brought on board to advise on EE float
£10 billion could be raised in London’s biggest IPO for years
Owners of Britain’s largest mobile operator, EE, have move a step closer to floating the business with the appointment of banks to advise on the sale. In what is expected to be one of the biggest initial public offerings in London in years, it’s thought the partial flotation of EE could raise as much as £10 billion for France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom who both need a cash injection to expand infrastructure in Europe and elsewhere. Continue reading
Posted in Everything Everywhere, Financial, mobile news
Tagged bank advisors, China Mobile, EE, IPO, Vodafone
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China Mobile ratchets up network spend as profits rise
China Mobile, the world’s largest phone company by users, is poised to increase capital spending by half this year having beat analysts expectations with Q4 net income 6 per cent higher than a year earlier.
Revenues rose to 36 billion yuan from 33.9 billion yuan previously, with profit projected at 32.3 billion yuan. Continue reading
Apple woos Chinese buyers with interest free credit
Scheme aims to wean them off cheap handsets from rivals
Apple has underscored its determination to boost sales in China by allowing consumers to buy its devices on credit. The initiative comes less than a week after a visit to the region by Apple CEO, Tim Cook, who met with the region’s biggest player – China Mobile, in a bid to forge new alliances and regain ground lost to the likes of Samsung and Nokia, not to mention homespun makers of cheaper brands. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, China, mobile news
Tagged Apple, China, China Mobile, coolpad, Huawei, Lenovo, nokia, Tim Cook, ZTE
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China ‘to overtake US’ as world’s biggest market for smartphones, says Apple CEO
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has flown to China for the second time in a year in a bid to forge new alliances and allay fears it could be losing ground to Nokia in what could soon be the world’s biggest phone market.
A month ago Apple saw $35 billion off its value as it was revealed how Nokia had agreed a deal with China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless operator with 700 million subscribers. Continue reading
Nokia’s Chinese win helps wipe $35bn off Apple
Finnish manufacturer triumphs in major tie-up with China Mobile
All eyes will return to Nasdaq today [6th December 2012] to see what happens to Apple after its shares fell 6.4 per cent last night, wiping $35 billion off its value. The fall came as analysts raised fears that it was losing ground to Nokia in China where the latter has just clinched a deal with the world’s biggest mobile operator, China Mobile. Though China Mobile has more than 700 million subscribers, it has no contract to sell iPhones – leaving the field open to the Finnish maker to supply a version of its flagship Lumia 920 smartphone. Continue reading
Mindspeed and China Mobile collaborate for TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE small cell solutions
Mindspeed’s System-on-Chip (SoC) Processors to Power China Mobile’s Small Cell Base Stations
Press release
May 21st 2012. Mindspeed Technologies, the industry leader in technology for small cell base stations, today announced that it will form a joint development lab with China Mobile Communications Corporation to support the operator’s recent deployment of Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) femtocells. Continue reading
China Mobile has long way to go to catch iTunes
Rating: China Mobile’s Li Yue reveals app store stats
Speaking at the Opening Keynote on mobile operator strategies at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, China Mobile’s president, Li Yue, revealed some interesting stats on the performance of its own app store – Mobile Market. China Mobile is, of course, the world’s largest mobile operator by both revenues and subscriber numbers. “Compared with Apple we have a long way to go, but it shows the potential,” Li Yue told the conference. “We are the gateway for selling services in the Chinese market.” Given the size of the Chinese market – which Nokia has just said it will attack with its W7 Mango Lumia phones – GoMo News wonders just how long it will be before Mobile Market overtakes the iTunes App Store? Continue reading
Posted in App stores, China, Featured, Mobile Operators
Tagged app store, China Mobile, Li Yue, mobile market
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Mobile Marketing Roundup: Vodafone loves data, China Mobile skirts around Apple and more…
Here’s your Tuesday round-up of the hottest mobile marketing stories from across the globe.
Today’s edition looks at Vodafone’s push for mobile data use; the potential explosion in mobile coupons; mobile ads for non mobile sites and more… Continue reading
NJ lab, Shanghai demo centre and Connected car share TD-LTE call
Rating: All thanks to Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio offering
4G-ready mobile devices from across the globe might not inter-work but the mobile networks can sort out the incompatibilities. This is the message behind a recent test call made by Alcatel-Lucent which involved two locations in China and one in the USA. The call was made possible because Alcatel-Lucent has deployed its complete end-to-end 4G/ LTE solution for China Mobile to use for its fourth-generation TD-LTE trial network in Shanghai. Like all good technology demos this one actually involved a vehicle driving around the streets of Shanghai – just to prove this wasn’t just another labs experiment. Continue reading
Posted in Alcatel-Lucent, Mobile Operators, TD-LTE
Tagged 4G, Alcatel-Lucent, China Mobile, lightRadio, shanghai, TD-LTE, Wim Sweldens
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China Mobile may offer multi-mode Android phone for TD-LTE
Rating: Apple to produce 4G iphone 5 for China
There are several reports that China Mobile has produced a test Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) handset capable of supporting three different network modes. These multiple modes are TD-LTE (for 4G), TD-SCDMA (for 3G) and GSM (for basic communications). China Mobile is probably the world’s largest mobile operator with around 744 million users. It has already built around six TD-LTE networks in China and hopes to offer a commercial multi-mode handset in Q3-Q4 2012. These reports are linked to other rumours that Apple has definitely agreed to produce a TD-LTE version of the iPhone 5 for China Mobile. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, China, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators, TD-LTE, android, iOS
Tagged 4G, Apple, China Mobile, GSM, High Pass, iPhone 5, Li Yue, Marvell, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, Wang Jianzhou, ZTE
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ITU Telecom World won’t be moving to Barcelona
Rating: Assurance from new rival to MWC
The ITU’s Telecom World exhibition and conference is undergoing a massive transformation. According to Blaise Judja-Sato, executive manager with ITU Telecom, the whole format for future Telecom World events is up in the air. Firstly the intention is to make it an annual event rather than just once every four years. Secondly, the organisers are contemplating moving the whole thing to other cities besides Geneva. However, Judja-Sato assured GoMo News that Barcelona is not on his list. He joked that the new venue might be Paris, Milan or Munich – all cities recently rejected by the GSMA as a possible site for its Mobile World Capital (see our story here). What’s obvious is that there will be far more focus on mobile communications than at previous events – reflecting the growing importance of mobile as a communications media – especially in the developing world. Continue reading
Posted in China, Conferences, Huawei, Intel, NTT DoCoMo, RIM, Samsung, ZTE
Tagged at&t, Blaise Judja-Sato, China Mobile, Datung, ericsson, Geneva, Huawei, intel, ITU, NGOs, October 2011, RIM, Samsung, Telecom World, UN, ZTE
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China Mobile side-steps LTE compatibility with cross-standard hardware
If you’re in any way confused about the different standards for LTE, then it only means you’re sane. It’s a bit of a mess for the average consumer to understand – there are multiple releases of LTE, differing standards, and even some debate over what 4G is and is not. China Mobile (partly responsible for the mess thanks to its own LTE standard called TD LTE) is trying to enable phone makers to get around the issue by releasing an antenna that will allow their devices cater to any existing form of LTE. Continue reading
Posted in China, LTE, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged 4G, China Mobile, LTE, Mobile Devices, mobile handsets, mobile networks, Mobile Operators, mobile phones, TD-LTE
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China Mobile and SK Telecom tie the mobile knot
SK Telecom is South Korea’s biggest mobile operator – and in 2009, it announced that it would be searching for new growth drivers… particularly in foreign expansion. Now we’re seeing a major part of that strategy unfurl in a massive co-operative announcement with China Mobile. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged China, China Mobile, korea, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, SK Telecom
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