China's mobile industry of the mobile industry has a high growth rate, increasing its share in the global mobile phone market. During 2007, 600 million mobile phones were made in China that accounted for more than 25 percent of global production. China is the largest market in terms of mobile phone subscribers.
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History
- In 1987, wireless telephone communication in the modern sense was started by China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, using TACS technology. The national network is completed the following year.
- In 1994, fixed line companies (China Telecom) and two mobile phone companies (China Mobile and China Unicom) were separated from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
- In 2002, fixed line companies were divided into two: China Netcom for North China and China Telecom for South China
- Until 2008, China's mobile phone service was provided by three companies:
- GSM service from China Mobile
- GSM and CDMA service (started in 2002) from China Unicom.
- PHS service from two fixed telephone companies: China Netcom and China Telecom
- In 2008, another reorganization of the telecommunications industry took place a year before 3G services were provided.
- In 2015, China recorded 1.3 billion mobile subscribers in its domestic market. Almost everyone in the country has a cell phone. Nearly 29.6 percent of mobile consumers or 386 million users are on the LTE 4G network.
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Mobile phone service provider
After the reorganization of China's telecommunications industry in 2008, there are now three mobile phone service providers.
China Mobile
China Mobile (China: ???? ) resumed China Mobile's longstanding service, absorbed China Railway Communications, and started 3G services using TD-SCDMA, China's own disputed technology.
China Unicom
China Unicom continued the longstanding China Unicom GSM service, absorbing the old fixed network of China Netcom north of the Yangtze River in China, and started its 3G service using W-CDMA technology.
China Telecom
China Telecom (China: ???? ) resumed PHS services from China Netcom and the old China Telecom, resumed China Telecom's old fixed line network in the southern part of the Yangtze River, and started service 3G using CDMA2000 technology.
Mobile Phone Industry
Wireless communication is governed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The mobile phone industry in China has grown into a major industry, including new technology research, mobile phone manufacturing and communication network development, contributed by domestic companies as well as foreign companies, such as:
Huawei Technologies is expected to surpass Nokia-Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent to become the second largest telecom equipment maker, after Ericsson, in 2009.
ZTE and China Mobile have launched turnkey mobile network projects in Pakistan, Ethiopia, etc.
Mobile
Mobile phone manufacturer
Domestic sales
Domestic mobile phone sales made a 100 million breakthrough in China in 2006.
In 2007, domestic mobile phone sales in China were 190 million, an increase of 74 percent compared to 2007. The thrust mainly came from the rapid growth of new mobile phone users and the increasing demands of old customers. Of the 190 million mobile phones, 140 million are made through formal channels, while the rest are made through informal channels such as smuggling, counterfeiting and renovation.
Export volume
China's cellular phone exports rose to a record high of 385 million in 2006, up 69.3 percent compared with 2005. In 2007, this number reached 483 million, an increase of 125.45 percent compared with 2006. As far back as 2006, volume exports have reached 31,214 billion USD, an increase of 52.47 percent compared with 2005. The export volume in 2007 was 35.6 billion dollars, an increase of 114.01 percent compared with 2006.
Development trend
Since 2011 smartphones, especially those running the open source Android operating system, have become increasingly popular in the Chinese mobile market. By 2016 smart phones have become the dominant sellers in the Chinese market. This is because the Android system provides the possibility for manufacturers to produce smartphones more easily, which in turn allows prices to fall even below RMB 1,000 Yuan. This cheap smartphone is also exported to every corner of the world thanks to China's Internet sales platform such as aliexpresss.com and DHGate.com, and online overseas sales platforms such as eBay.com and Amazon.com.
Pricing
The Chinese mobile market is dominated by products priced below RMB 2,000 yuan (about 300 US dollars). Products at this price have accounted for 60 percent of the entire mobile market, competing with local Chinese brands, informal cell phones and international brands.
Chinese mobile features
- Most mobile phone services are already prepaid. Pre-payments can be made by purchasing a card (50 or 100 yuan) and calling a cell phone provider, or through a commercial bank. You can fill your account via Wechat (Chinese: ?? )/refill voucher/Alipay (Mandarin: ??? )/online credit card anywhere.
- There is a clear distinction between mobile phones and mobile phone services in China, unlike some countries like Japan where mobile phones are sold and locked to mobile phone service companies. This tradition is broken by the introduction of Apple Inc.'s iPhone. in 2009.
- Stealing the phone and therefore SIM card is quite common. When the phone is stolen, the owner must visit the phone service provider to cancel the previous card, to maintain the phone number and pre-payment before.
- Short messages (SMS) or duanxin (Chinese: ?? ), typically 0.10 yuan per message (up to 160 alphabetical characters or 70 Chinese characters), can be sent to other mobile phones in various mobile phone service companies, GSM, CDMA, or PHS.
- The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) or caixin (Mandarin: ?? ) is also available, typically 0.3 yuan per message (up to 50 kilobytes).
- Custom ringtones ("calls", Chinese: ?? ), usually 5 yuan per month, are additional services. This is when the called party can send ringback tones to the caller's music (or any type of sound) called likes. Usually hated by foreigners, but loved by young Chinese.
See also
- Communications in China
- Telecommunication industry in China
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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