China’s mobile payment market dwarfs that of the U.S. Consumer comfortable with online shopping and mobile payments driving growth. Mobile payment market dominated by Alibaba and Tencent. In 2016, China’s mobile payments hit $5.5 trillion,…
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China Unicom to roll back 2G network
Telecommunications operator China Unicom (中国联通) has begun closing down its 2G network and requested that services using the technology cease development, our sister site is reporting. The company has already started the process of frequency…
Made in China 2025 plan irking Beijing’s trading partners
BEIJING — U.S. officials have a name for their frustration with Beijing’s technology ambitions: “Made in China 2025.” Issued in 2015, it calls for China to develop its own global competitors in fields from information…
WeWork to snap up China-based rival Naked Hub: sources
Naked Hub, headquartered in Shanghai, has around 50 opened and planned locations across mainland China, Hong Kong and Vietnam … $4.4 billion in investments from the Japanese firm and its technology fund last year and…
Bad humour: China watchdog shuts Toutiao joke app over vulgar content
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – In China, a platform for risqué jokes is no laughing matter. Toutiao, a hugely popular news and online content portal that is luring investors, was forced to pull its joke sharing “Neihan…
China Mobile Workstations Market 2017 – Recent Study Including Growth Factors, Applications, Regional Analysis, Key Players and Forecasts till 2022
Questale published a new in-depth industry research that focuses on China Mobile Workstations market, delivers detailed analysis of market and future prospects of China Mobile Workstations market. The critical and significant data in the study…
What To Watch As China Unicom Publishes Q1 Results
China Unicom (NYSE:CHU), the second largest Chinese wireless carrier, is expected to publish its Q1 2018 results in mid-April, reporting on what is typically the strongest quarter for Chinese carriers in terms of subscriber acquisition…
Nokia gets a big piece of China Mobile optical transport gig
The world’s biggest MNO – China Mobile – recently held a central bid to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network, in which it ranked Nokia top. The gig seems to be that a…
MediaTek Announces NB-IoT R14 Rate Enhancement Test with China Mobile to Drive Real-World IoT Applications
BEIJING, April 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MediaTek recently announced it has completed the NarrowBand IoT Release 14 (NB-IoT R14) rate enhancement tests in collaboration with China Mobile to become the first chip maker to pass…
Donald Trump’s tariffs strikes at heart of China’s blueprint for prosperity
That helped make China a leader in fields from mobile phones to high-speed rail to wind turbines, but also fueled complaints that China was improperly benefitting from those tactics. Chinese officials say they are willing…
Why Nokia Oyj (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) providing China Mobile with an optical transport network?
Nokia Oyj (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) announced that it will be providing China Mobile with an optical transport network that will enable the operator to become 5G-ready. The company described its solution as a dynamic, programmable optical…
China Telecom Americas Facilitates Information Interchange between U.S. and China
Besides its investment in infrastructure, China Telecom Americas also partnered with the well-known U.S. carriers to provide CTExcel mobile services, which is a global mobile service tailor-made to bring international high-speed 4G LTE service as…
China’s president offers US possible trade concessions
BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping promised Tuesday to cut China’s auto tariffs and improve intellectual property protection in possible concessions aimed at defusing a worsening dispute with Washington over trade and technology that investors…