China Telecom goes mobile

Image via WikipediaAs an important part of the planned changes in China's telecom industry, China Telecom has announced it completed the take over of the CDMA-network from China Unicom, writes Telecom Update. China Unicom started off originally with a GSM-network, just like the number one in mobile communication, China Mobile.
But former prime minister Zhu Rongji needed at the end of the 1990s a nice present when he was going to the US for a state-visit and decided that China Unicom had to purchase also a second mobile network.
The planned changes will increase competition in the mobile communication in China and might actually put the giant China Mobile at a disadvantage, since it has to work with the still immature Chinese technology of TD-SCDMA. Investments in the expansion of the networks has already picked up after years of relative stagnation, now the move to the third generation mobile networks (3G) has started.

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