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Retail Asia05/12/2019

The verification, based on the real 5G commercial network environment, covers the basic functions of network selection and anchor carrier triggering, network management functions of rights management and northbound interface in the DT environment, as well as multi-dimensional deep network sharing capability verification, such as multi-vendor, multi-operator mobility. The co-build co-share mode is capable of […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2019

China Unicom and Ericsson have signed an agreement to accelerate the development of commercial 5G technology. The agreement signed at China Unicom’s 5G Innovation and Cooperation Conference in Shenzhen involves further co-operation on a 5G test network. The companies have already completed innovative 5G projects, such as the live 4K HD broadcast of a marathon; […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2019

China Unicom said a group of automobile OEMs have invested in its Internet of Vehicle (IoV) unit China Unicom Smart Connection Technology. Nine strategic investors, including major automobile companies FAW, Guangzhou Automobile Group and Dongfeng Motor Group, among others have picked up a combined 31.2% in Smart Connection Technology. The financial terms of the transaction […]

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Retail Asia03/04/2019

At least 211 operators across 87 countries are investing in 5G, according to statistics compiled by consultancy company Hadden Telecoms. Operators investing in 5G are at a variety of stages, ranging from network deployments, to technology testing, demonstrations and pilot trials. To date, 15 operators have commercially launched 5G services, including Telstra and Optus in […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2019

China Unicom has reported a more than five fold growth in net profit for 2018 as a result of strong data revenue growth and benefits from the company’s mixed ownership reform program. The annual results show a 457.8% spike in net profit to 10.19 billion yuan, contributing to what the operator called a “V-shaped rebound […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2019

China Unicom is collaborating with Chinese gaming and mobile application developer NetDragon WebSoft to develop 5G-enabled future classroom applications. The operator jointly held a 5G + Smart Education Industry Education conference in Wuhan to demonstrate the potential of 5G to transform the education process. The conference, which was also organized by the National Engineering Research […]

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Retail Asia23/10/2018

China Unicom has revealed it expects to report a more than doubling of its profit for the first nine months of the year, despite facing significant pressure on mobile service revenues. The operator’s unaudited results show a 116.6% increase in net profit for the first three quarters of 2018 to 8.87 billion yuan ($1.28 billion). Mobile […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2018

China Unicom has signed business cooperation framework agreements with Kuang-Chi Technologies and KuangChi Science, subsidiaries of Kuang-Chi Group. The agreement is an integral part of a series of cooperation framework agreements which Unicom signed with strategic investors in key industry verticals participating in its mixed-ownership reform, the Chinese operator said in a statement. Under the […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Chinese state-owned operator China Unicom will raise around 78 billion yuan ($11.65 billion) through investments from private companies including Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. The operator announced it has secured approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for its plan to open up to private investment under the government’s mixed ownership reform pilot program. The company […]

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Retail Asia14/08/2017

China Unicom has announced it expects to report a 68.9% increase in profit for the first six months of the year, partly as a result of improved cost efficiencies. The company estimates it earned a profit of 2.4 billion yuan ($359.9 million) for the six month period, despite a 1.5% decrease in overall revenue to 138.2 billion. […]

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Retail Asia26/07/2017

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has given approval for a pilot program involving opening investment in China Unicom to the private sector, to evaluate transitioning to a mixed ownership model for the market’s state-owned operators. In an announcement, Unicom confirmed that the NDRC has given in-principle approval for the pilot program. But the details […]

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Retail Asia07/07/2017

China Unicom, Ericsson and Qualcomm have completed the first demonstration of LTE Cat-M1 Voice over LTE use cases. The demonstrations at last week’s Mobile World Congress Shanghai involved providing connectivity for a fire alarm trigger panel and a GPS emergency tracking device. The demos were conducted using Unicom’s spectrum, Ericsson’s IoT and VoLTE capable network […]

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Retail Asia26/04/2017

China Unicom has launched a live trial of Nokia’s Virtualized Services Router for around 5,000 residential broadband subscribers. The trial in the province of Shandong involves the delivery of residential broadband over an agile network based on virtualized network functions. China Unicom is using Nokia VSR as a virtualized broadband network gateway (BNG) for residential […]

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Retail Asia18/01/2017

Huawei and China Unicom have completed field verification of what they are billing as the industry’s first FDD-based Massive MIMO technology. The field test used the existing two-antenna receiving terminal on the 20MHz spectrum and an FDD LTE commercial terminal to achieve a peak network rate of 697.3Mbps, nearly five times that of traditional FDD […]

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Retail Asia08/11/2016

China Unicom has completed a field trial of ADVA Optical Networking’s prototype G.metro (WDM-PON) technology in a fronthaul network. The operator demonstrated the use of a prototype technology involving using a single bidirectional fiber link between head-end and tail-end equipment during a lab demonstration in Beijing. The prototype uses autonomous transponders to help reduce the […]

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Retail Asia01/10/2016

China Unicom has arranged to deploy high-capacity Nokia metro core routers in four additional provinces. Unicom is deploying Nokia’s high-end core router CR-B, powered by the extensible core routing system (XRS) platform, to help meet China’s future capacity demands. The expanded agreement now covers the provinces of Heilongjiang, Henan, Zhejiang and Hunan. Unicom has already […]

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Retail Asia04/08/2016

China Unicom has warned it expects to report an 80% year-on-year slump in net profit for the first half of the year as a result of a surge in expenses. In a stock exchange filing, the operator said that selling and marketing expenses grew significantly during the six month period. New tower usage fees resulting […]

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