Shipments of coherent 100G ports for metro regional optical networks grew 145% year-on-year in 2014 and will grow another 118% in 2015, forecasts market research firm IHS. Led by massive purchases in China from China Mobile, 2014 was a ...
China shipped a total of 237 million handsets in the first half of 2015, rising 7.4% from a year earlier, with shipments of 4G models increasing 381.8% on year to 195 million units, according to data from China Academy of Information and ...
Tags: handsets, handset shipments, mobile phone, smartphone
According to a new forecast report by Ovum, FTTx optics will reach a new record level in 2015, following a record-breaking 2014. The report forecasts that FTTx optical components revenue will exceed $1bn this year, up almost 5% from $953m ...
The world’s largest carrier,China Mobile, added about 10 million 4G subscribers April, compared to a dismal tally of 691,000 3G and 4G additions. The past year has seen massive growth for mobile broadband – 3G and 4G ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G users
China is likely to cut mobile Internet service charges and increase traffic speeds. The average Internet connection speed in China stood at 3.14 megabytes per second in 2013Q1, which is lower than other countries'. It's expected that ...
Beijing-based Xiaomi Inc has set a more ambitious goal for smartphone sales in 2015, the company's founder and CEO revealed on Friday. Xiaomi is expected to sell between 80 million and 100 million smartphones for the whole of 2015, Lei ...
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Huawei Technologies has become a core equipment supplier of "the world's fastest 4G network," operated by UK's EE which will pay 1.5 billion pounds (US$2.3 billion) between now and 2017, China's biggest telecommunications equipment maker ...
Tags: Huawei Technologies, EE, 4G network
An Apple supplier has just unveiled a purportedly ‘unbreakable’ smartphone display made from sapphire. Desay, a Chinese firm that currently supplies batteries for Apple, has showed off its ‘Magical Mirror X5’ ...
Tags: Apple, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
Shipments of 4G LTE handsets will grow from 204 million units in 2014 to 676 million in 2015, forecasts market analyst firm ABI Research in its report ‘4G Subscribers, Devices, and Networks Market Data’ (part of the firm’s ...
Tags: LTE handsets, Electrical
Cavendish Kinetics of San Jose CA, USA, which provides RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable wireless devices, has closed a $7m funding round, co-led by Tallwood Venture Capital and Wellington Partners, with participation from ...
Tags: MEMS, LTE Smartphones, Electronics
Increasing workforce wages and commercial real estate rental fees in main cities of China has led to the emergence of e-commerce, which has the upside of saving about 60% of operating cost. The importance o the E-commerce trend in China can ...
Tags: Lighting Market, LED
China Mobile requires that all TD-LTE smartphones to be certified beginning May 31, 2014 support five mobile communication standards: TD-LTE, FDD LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM, according to the company. The largest mobile telecom carrier ...
Tags: China Mobile, TD-LTE, Smartphones
Sales of smartphones in China grew 21.9% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2013, but the growth rate dropped to 15.9% on an annual basis which indicates the smartphone market in China is becoming more saturated, according to Digitimes ...
Tags: Smartphones, Huawei, Coolpad
China Mobile, the country's biggest services provider, on Friday begins selling Apple's iPhone to its millions of customers, ending a six-year wait in a crucial market for the US technology giant. The combination of China Mobile's ...
Tags: Mobile Firm, Apple iPhone
Murata Manufacturing shares rallied Wednesday to reach their highest point in over a decade, adding to anticipation that the Japanese maker of smartphone components will see higher earnings, as a major Chinese mobile carrier begins selling ...
Tags: iPhone Sales, Murata's Shares