3G licenses to be issued before Spring Festival

As it turns out, China's 3G licenses will be issued to China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom by Spring Festival. Guangdong Mobile (a China Mobile subsidiary) is already releasing a new set of 3G numbers all starting with "188" beginning this Thursday. In addition GPRS fees will be cut by as much as 2/3 in most cities. According to Pacific Epoch, Shanghai Mobile users can "now pay RMB 5 per month for 30MB, rather than the RMB 5, 10 MB package originally available, while RMB 20 per month gets 150MB, also three times more than before".

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[1] | dedlam

Unfortunately for iPhone users (or anyone with a 3G phone from overseas), China Unicom's WCDMA 3G network won't be ready until about May.

http://news.ccidnet.com/art/949/20090106/1652183_1.html

PS: the Google Translation of this page is actually understandable.

Reply | January 6, 2009 1:33 PM

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