China Mobile participates in Pakistan 3G auction
March 29, 2012 Category Uncategorized
China Mobile Communications Corp has confirmed its participation in an auction of Pakistan’s third-generation wireless spectrum. Pakistan has been the only overseas market for China Mobile since it bought Paktel, a loss-making Pakistani carrier, for USD284 million from Millicom International Cellular in 2007. The company was renamed China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak), and its services were rebranded as “Zong” in 2008. If successful, China Mobile will offer the 3G services on a WCDMA network, which is different from the TD-SCDMA technology it is using in China. The Zong brand has seen the largest net growth in mobile users in Pakistan in the past three years, according to the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, although CMPak is only the fifth-largest of Pakistan’s six telecom operators. Zong had a user base of 13.2 million by October, rising from less than 1.5 million in 2007. Fan Yunjun, CEO of CMPak, said that China Mobile had invested USD1.5 billion in Pakistan so far. China Mobile is actively pushing for its homegrown 4G TD-LTE technology to be adopted worldwide. All three major Chinese operators have made tentative moves to expand overseas. In 2009, China Unicom (Hong Kong) agreed to a tie-up with the Spanish telecom company Telefonica, with each partner holding a stake in the other. This year, China Telecom plans to start selling a wireless service to consumers in the United States, and may even consider building or buying its own wireless network in the U.S., the China Daily reports.
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