China Mobile

China Mobile Ltd is a state-owned telecom providing mobile voice and multimedia services through a nationwide mobile network. It is listed in New York and Hong Kong.

China Mobile’s first-half profit rises 4.7 per cent as subscriber number increases

World’s biggest cellular network posts 4.7 per cent gain in interim profit

China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile phone operator by subscribers, reported on Thursday a 4.7 per cent rise in first-half net profit, helped by mobile data growth due to a rise in subscriber numbers.

9 Aug 2018 - 3:33pm

Tong Jilu, chairman, China Tower, at the company’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong on August 8. Photo: Edward Wong

World’s largest IPO debuts on Hong Kong exchange with a whimper

8 Aug 2018 - 11:32pm 4

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25 Jul 2018 - 5:00pm 1

Citing national security to justify trade sanctions is almost routine for the US. Photo: Bloomberg

China Mobile may well have paid the price of the trade war

19 Jul 2018 - 10:57pm 2

The application of China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless network operator by subscribers, to build its own telecoms network in the US was denied by the Trump administration

Why the US government sees China Mobile as a national security threat

4 Jul 2018 - 3:33pm 7

A man walks past a China Mobile sign in downtown Shanghai, China. Photo: Reuters

Trump administration moves to block China Mobile entering US market

3 Jul 2018 - 4:24pm 32

General picture of telecommunication towers. Photo: Shutterstock

China Tower gets Hong Kong’s green light for 2018’s biggest IPO

28 Jun 2018 - 7:29pm 2

Shenzhen-listed iFlytek is collaborating with telecoms network operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom to bring voice-activated smart devices to the mass market

China’s voice-recognition tech champion is going into hardware in a big way

3 Jul 2018 - 7:26pm

China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator with 900 million subscribers.Photo: SCMP

World’s No. 1 cellular network may issue Chinese depository receipts

17 May 2018 - 11:42pm

Huen Wong, chairman of the Communications Authority, handed in his notice on Friday. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Hong Kong Communications Authority chairman quits

12 Feb 2018 - 11:55pm 9

Tencent is likely to be added to the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index as part of a regular review. Photo: Reuters

Tencent among new-economy stocks to join H-share index

30 Jan 2018 - 10:30pm

China Tower could have its initial public offering brought forward to this year amid the rising share prices of key industry players. Photo: Shutterstock

China Tower IPO could be near as telecom operators’ shares rise

11 Oct 2017 - 10:59pm

China’s bid to gain a greater share of the intellectual property behind 5G would help increase its global influence. Photo: AP

5G may be China’s chance to lead global tech innovation

13 Oct 2017 - 2:23pm 7

China Mobile, Unicom and China Telecom had a combined subscriber base of about 1.3 billion as of July 31. Photo: AP

China’s telecoms giants march to the beat of national service

31 Aug 2017 - 10:44pm 1

Students looking at their smartphones during a class at the Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province. Hordes of Chinese millennials are speaking directly to the country's 700 million smartphone users, streaming their lives to lucrative effect, fronting brands and launching businesses. They are known as "wanghong" -- literally hot on the web -- and they now represent a multi-billion-dollar industry, becoming so big that it has its own university curriculum. At Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College, classrooms for the 34 mostly female students are typically dance studios, catwalks strafed by flashing lights, and bustling makeup rooms. Photo: AFP

China Mobile to pay special dividend amid steady earnings

10 Aug 2017 - 11:28pm

World’s largest wireless network operator put at a disadvantage by central government’s decision to back narrow band IoT, a standard it does not support

China Mobile scrambles to catch up after backing wrong IoT standard

7 Jul 2017 - 6:36pm 1

People browse their smartphones in Beijing. Jefferies predicts the mainland will have 588 million 5G subscribers by 2022. Photo: AP

China to build world’s largest 5G mobile network for US$180 billion

13 Jun 2017 - 9:28am 7

China Mobile chief warns unlimited data plans not ‘healthy’ for industry development

China Mobile warns unlimited data plans not ‘healthy’ for industry

25 May 2017 - 10:30pm

Shang Bing, Executive Director & Chairman of China Mobile, as the company’s quarterly results indicated slow growth for the rest of 2017. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

China Mobile posts lower-than-expected earnings as growth slows in 2017

21 Apr 2017 - 7:14am

China Mobile expects 19b yuan in lost revenue, profit in 2018 from further tariff reductions

China Mobile sees 19b yuan in lost revenue, profit after tariff cuts

23 Mar 2017 - 11:22pm

China's telecoms giants tipped to report mostly downbeat 2016 results

China’s telecoms giants to deliver mostly downbeat 2016 results

14 Mar 2017 - 1:29pm 1

Why government policy has a bigger impact on China’s telecoms industry than market competition

Why China’s telecoms operators are stuck on modest growth

11 Mar 2017 - 9:57am

5G connectivity was one of the key themes at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Photo: AFP

Promise of 5G future dominates Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

4 Mar 2017 - 5:55pm

The operator’s 5G field tests this year will cover Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing

China Mobile targets 5G infrastructure build-out from 2018

25 Nov 2017 - 4:28pm

China Mobile ranked world’s third most valuable telecoms brand

27 Feb 2017 - 9:59pm

China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless network operator, is to collaborate with US telecommunications conglomerate AT&T to drive the deployment of so-called Internet of Things initiatives by businesses on the mainland. Photo: EPA

AT&T and China Mobile collaborate on Internet of Things

1 Mar 2017 - 11:32am

ZTE will support equipment based on the ‘5G New Radio’ standard as part of the 5G trial. Photo: Reuters.

China Mobile ramps up 5G trials with partners ZTE, Qualcomm

22 Feb 2017 - 10:07pm

China’s top ranked corporate brands hail from the energy and banking sectors. Photo: AFP

China’s top ranked corporate brands say a lot about the economy and how it’s changing

23 Nov 2016 - 12:00am

Sean Lee, chief executive officer of CMHK, attends the 4.5G network launch ceremony in Hong Kong on Monday. Photo: Nora Tam

China Mobile, Huawei test 4.5G technology ahead of Hong Kong 5G rollout in 2020

14 Nov 2016 - 9:40pm 1

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