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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…