Motorola has consolidated its position as the leading supplier of mobile phone handsets in China, according to a report by Beijing-based Norson Telecom Consulting. It held a 31 per cent share of sales in the first half of the year, the same as at the end of 2001, while secondplaced Nokia's share fell from 30 […]
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced that it was going to invest m40m to set up a holding company and a research and development centre in China. The statement was made at the official launch of the China operations of the joint venture, which has taken over Ericsson's mobile phone manufacturing operations. Sony Ericsson also said […]
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Phone giants in price war
China's two mobile phone companies are engaged in a price war in several provinces, pitching prices below the levels set by the government, said the People's Posts and Telecommunications, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Information Industry. A China Mobile branch in Sichuan province was reported to be offering customers rates described as 'a […]
Advertising spending in China in the second quarter of 2002 was US$3.8bn, an increase of 33 per cent year-on-year, according to a survey by Nielsen Media Research. The company said that a strong domestic economy and the staging of Asia's first football World Cup were the major stimuli for the sector. Multinational agencies have strengthened […]
Sparkice, Beijing's first internet cafe operator, has closed its last internet cafe, South China Morning Post said. The cafe, in Beijing's World Trade Centre, had around 200 customers a day before the government ordered the closure of all internet cafes for safety checks in June. Permission had since been given for the cafe to re-open […]