China Economic ReviewThe Tianjin branches of China Unicom and China Mobile said they were owed Yn300m by subscribers, according to a report by eastday. com. The claim was made a few days after MII said that the country's six telecoms operators were owed a total of Yn20bn. False or stolen identity cards used to sign up for […]
The Ministry of Information Industries (MII) has threatened telecoms operators with fines unless they call a halt to price wars that have done much to harm profitability. Referring to the mobile services offered by China Mobile and China Unicom, Minister Wu Jichuan warned that the government would not tolerate the deregulation of price controls on […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has begun construction of a US$1bn chip plant in China before getting permission from its own government, the Financial Times said. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Songjiang Industrial Park near Shanghai and officials began construction of the plant in August. An official at the Taiwan investment commission confirmed that […]
Texas Instruments, the world's top supplier of microchips for mobile phones, is close to reaching agreement with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp on the joint manufacturing of chips, Reuters said. Under the proposed deal, SMIC would take chips partly produced by Texas Instruments and apply copper circuitry to their transistors, which would be built with 130-nanometre […]
China Eastern Communications (Eastcom) has signed an agreement with China Unicom for sales of CDMA handsets, South China Morning Post said. Under the deal, Eastcom's distribution arm, Face One Telecommunications, would buy CDMA handsets from Unicom at wholesale prices and sell them to end-users at around onethird the market rate, provided they subscribed to Unicom's […]