Xiamen: We Don’t Need No Stinking WiFi
China Tech News reports:
China Mobile (CHL) has signed a wireless cooperation memo with the Xiamen Municipal Government to build a wireless city.
Unlike other Chinese cities which adopt Wi-Fi and WiMAX technology is their wireless construction, Xiamen will become the first wireless city in China that based on the TD-SCDMA/HSDPA network. This is also the first [...]
Pricing TD-HSDPA in Shanghai
I was over in Pudong visiting a client the other day and, when I noticed a China Mobile shop, went in to ask about HSDPA devices.
It’s not as cheap as I would have thought.
The USB dongle itself was RMB700 (about US$100). The SIM card was an additional RMB120.
5RMB gets you 30MB of data traffic
20 [...]
HSDPA Up and Running in Shanghai
Marbridge Daily reports:
Shanghai Mobile has confirmed that its TD-HSDPA 3.5G network has been put into use in Shanghai. Users can now purchase TD-HSDPA data cards to experience network speeds of close to 1 Mbps per second, which is approximately 2-3 times faster than the original TD-SCDMA network.
No word on any giveaway, subsidy, specials from China [...]
China Telecom Goes WiFi Shopping
Chinatzone reports:
H3C Technologies has won a contract to supply China Telecom’s WLAN products. H3C Technologies also took 40 percent of China Telecom’s indoor WLAN Access Points (AP) procurement bid in May. China Telecom started to purchase WLAN products in large scale in 2008, in order to provide quality wireless network services to its users. H3C’s [...]
Olympics: Where There’s a McWill, There’s No Way
Telecom Asia reports:
A much-heralded Wimax deployment at China’s Olympics looks likely to be “over promised and under delivered”, according to IMS Research.
China’s dominant mobile phone operator, China Mobile, has been designated to provide a Wimax network for the Games, according to IMS. The network was intended to cover the Olympic village and surrounding areas.
However, the [...]
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