Net: China Mobile is expected to upgrade 4G after the introduction of the iPhone

Beijing on the evening of March 14, China Mobile, said after today released earnings this year, plans to spend 41.7 billion yuan (about 6.7 billion U.S. dollars) building a 4G network operator Apple iPhone and hope in their own networks, in order to develop the market The demand for this phone.

As the world's largest mobile operators, China Mobile's network, more than 10 million units of iPhone. But unfortunately the iPhone currently does not support China's own standard, TD-SCDMA technology. China Mobile has not been able to like competitors selling the iPhone contract machine, a direct result of the slowdown in profit growth of China Mobile.

China Mobile is the current market value of about $ 220 billion, half of the apple. Reported net profit in 2012 increased by 2.7%, to 129.3 billion yuan (about 21 billion U.S. dollars), slightly better in the Reuters poll in the average analyst estimate of 127.4 billion yuan, a record since 1999, the lowest profit growth.


Industry experts expect the Apple's next generation iPhone will support China Mobile's TD-LTE 4G technology, but from a global point of view, the scope of application of TD-LTE will be much smaller than the FDD-LTE technology. Leping Huang, Nomura International analyst in Hong Kong, said: "Once support 4G technology, the iPhone will greatly stimulate the growth in the number of Chinese mobile users. However, as China Mobile also need to provide high subsidies for the iPhone, so the first year will be on the profit impact. "

China Mobile said Thursday handset subsidies this year will reach 27 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 13%. China Telecom began operations last year, the iPhone. In the first half of last year, China Telecom's handset subsidies increased by 50%. Due to higher marketing and subsidy cost, China Telecom's profits in the past three quarters showed landslide.

China Mobile currently has 715 million users, most users only use the basic services, they fancy Chinese mobile network coverage. Only a small portion of the user charges at users understand the technology.

Currently, only 13% of China Mobile users use 3G services. China Unicom's 3G users reached 1/3, 44% of China Telecom. If the user tries to use China Mobile's 3G network iPhone will automatically connect to the 2G network. However, many users take advantage of China Mobile's WiFi hotspots to the Internet, play games, and download software data flow activities.

IPhone driven by strong demand for hot SIM card cut card services, China Mobile also provides some stores even cut card services. China Mobile is trying to promote the building of 4G networks, so as to improve the user experience. Smartphone Tencent micro letter and Sina microblogging is a common phenomenon in the Chinese market.

China Mobile executives said on Thursday that China Mobile plans to invest in the network construction this year, 190.2 billion yuan, 41.7 billion yuan to invest in 4G networks. Last year, China Mobile's network construction spending reached 127.4 billion yuan. Xi Guohua, chairman of China Mobile, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​said China Mobile plans to build TD-LTE 4G network will include 200,000 base stations, covering more than 100 cities in China, and the number of potential users reached 500 million.

China Mobile said Thursday that the relevant departments of the Chinese government is expected to 4G licenses will be issued by the end of this year. Senior Chinese government officials last week had a similar implication, then, the news pushed the stock price of the stock of the Hong Kong stock market operators