Chinese Mobile Carriers Spend Billions to Increase
发布时间:2010-08-06 17:01:48
摘 要:China’s three mobile carriers will spend $6.3 billion in wireless infrastructure equipment by the end of 2009.
The spending reflects the rapidly expanding
China Telecom’s
After offering mobile subscribers a package of mobile and wireline services, China Telecom was able to increase its subscribers to 46.8 million from 18.9 million between January and September of this year. The company is expected to have 50 million subscribers by 2010.
iSuppli says China Telecom deployed about 480,000 transceivers during the first three quarters of 2009, and will continue its rapid expansion through the fourth quarter. Once the company’s
China Unicom had 71,000 basestations by September of this year, iSuppli says, and is expected to add another 30,000 to its network before January 2010. The company is also expected to have WCDMA networks covering 384 cities by the end of next year. iSupply predicts that China Unicom will spend more than $900 million on wireless equipment this year as it continues to upgrade its GSM network to EDGE.
iSuppli says China Unicom gained 9.4 million subscribers so far this year, bringing its total number of subscribers to 142.8 million. The carrier is expected to have more than 200 million subscribers by 2013.
By the end of June, China Mobile completed building 44,000 TD-SCDMA basestations. The company is expected to have an additional 60,000 basestations and 450,000 transceivers by the end of this year. Despite the increase in its wireless infrastructure, iSupply says China Mobile has slower
China Mobile will also continue to develop its GSM networks, but because of the company’s concentration on TDD-LTE, it will continue to lose market share to its competitors until it can roll the service out in 2011, iSupply says.
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