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China Mobile Vs. China Telecom in Wireless ServiceDec 31, 2008 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL and SEHK: 0941) is spreading its WLAN web browsing service to all its consumers, compared to only businessmen and companies in the past. The biggest mobile telecoms operator in China has launched three monthly bundles about the service, including the 15-hour, 40-hour and 200-hour web browsing packages at CNY 30, CNY 50 and CNY 200, with the further consumption priced at CNY 0.05 per minute. WLAN card-inserted PDAs, laptops and desktops can be used to surf the Internet under the China Mobile WLAN system, which has partially covered more than 200 Chinese cities, including the 203 hotels and office buildings in Beijing. And the web browsing speed can reach 11 megabytes per second at highest. The expansion is interpreted as a move to press the attempt of surpassing, mainly from China Telecom Corporation Ltd. (SEHK: 0728 and NYSE: CHA), which becomes a newcomer in the Chinese mobile telecoms industry with the acquired CDMA network. Days ago, China Telecom started the subscription of its first-batch CDMA cellphone numbers on the 189 section, in the run-up to the debut of its service bundle of low-cost phone call plus high-speed Internet surfing. Many of the 189 consumers will be converted from 139 consumers, most of whom receive China Mobiles services. And they can change just the 139 to 189 to become China Telecom consumers, citing a report. Before the end of February 2009, it would complete the improvement of its over 4,000 CDMA base stations, increasing the up-flow and down-flow CDMA web browsing speeds to 1.8 megabytes and 3.1 megabytes per second, respectively. In January 2009, it will began the trial operation of its CDMA plus WiFi services for the users of personal computers, handheld computers, cellphones and digital TVs, according to one of its executives.December 30, SinoCast -- China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL and SEHK: 0941) is spreading its WLAN Internet access service to all its mobile phone subscribers, compared to only businessmen and companies in the past. The biggest mobile telecoms operator in China has launched three monthly bundles about the service, including the 15-hour, 40-hour and 200-hour web browsing packages at CNY 30, CNY 50 and CNY 200, with the further consumption priced at CNY 0.05 per minute. WLAN card-inserted PDAs, laptops and desktops can be used to surf the Internet under the China Mobile WLAN system, which has partially covered more than 200 Chinese cities, including the 203 hotels and office buildings in Beijing. And the web browsing speed can reach 11 megabytes per second at highest. The expansion is interpreted as a move to press the attempt of surpassing, mainly from China Telecom Corporation Ltd. (SEHK: 0728 and NYSE: CHA), which becomes a newcomer in the Chinese mobile telecoms industry with the acquired CDMA network. Days ago, China Telecom started to accept applications for subscription of its first-batch CDMA cellphone numbers on the 189 section, in the run-up to the debut of its service bundle of low-cost phone call plus high-speed Internet surfing. Many of the 189 users will be converted from 139 users, most of them used to be subscribers of China Mobile. And they can change just the 139 to 189 to become China Telecom users, citing a report. Before the end of February 2009, it would complete the improvement of its over 4,000 CDMA base stations, increasing the upload and download CDMA web browsing speeds to 1.8 megabytes and 3.1 megabytes per second, respectively. In January 2009, it will began the trial operation of its CDMA-plus-WiFi services for the users of PCs, palmtops, cellphones and digital TVs, according to one of its executives. At the end of 2007, China Telecom owns 45% of the 5,420 WiFi hotspots in China, compared to China Mobile's 9%, according to iSuppli Corporation, the electronics manufacturing market advisor. It expects the figure to reach 12,689 at this yearend. The China Telecom WiFi hotspots mainly cover the southern Chinese areas, insiders said, but in Beijing it is at a disadvantage. Besides, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has not greenlighted the production of WiFi mobile phones, enabling the China Mobile WLAN business to catch the worm first. Moreover, the challenger is still swaying between CDMA web browsing and WiFi web browsing, said people close to it. Source: dycj.ynet.com (December 31, 2008) |