China Mobile

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China Mobile Limited
中国移动通信集团公司
Company type Public; state-owned enterprise
ISIN HK0941009539
Industry Telecommunications
PredecessorChina Telecom (Hong Kong) Limited [1]
Founded3 September 1997;26 years ago (1997-09-03) [2]
Headquarters Beijing, China
Shanghai, China
Area served
Key people
Yang Jie (Chairman)
Services
RevenueIncrease2.svg CN¥812.0 billion (2022) [3]
Increase2.svg CN¥129.0 billion (2022) [3]
Increase2.svg CN¥125.6 billion (2022) [3]
Total assets Increase2.svg CN¥1.93 trillion (2022) [3]
Total equity Increase2.svg CN¥1.30 trillion (2022) [3]
Owner Government of China (72.72%) [4] : 65 
Number of employees
450,698 (2022) [3]
Parent China Mobile Communications Group
Subsidiaries
CMHK (100%)
Zong
CMLink
ASNs
  • 9808 (China)
  • 58453 (International)
Traffic Levels5-10Tbit/s [5]
Website www.10086.cn
www.chinamobileltd.com
Footnotes /references
Source of the financial figures: the consolidated financial statements [4]

Zong is China Mobile's brand in Pakistan and is operated by China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak), a subsidiary. [34]

United Kingdom

In December 2017, China Mobile launched a MVNO service in the UK called CMLink. CMLink is aimed at the Chinese population living in the UK and Chinese visitors and students. Plans include free calls to China Mobile phones in China. [43]

Singapore

In June 2020, China Mobile launched a MVNO service called CMLink. It uses Singtel networks, which is one of Singapore's largest mobile network operator.

CMLink is aimed at the Chinese population living in the Singapore and Chinese visitors and students. Plans include free calls to China Mobile phones in China. [43]

Network

China Mobile operates a GSM network, [44] which encompasses all 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and directly administered municipalities in Mainland China and includes Hong Kong, too. [2] GPRS is utilized for data transmission. [45]

3G

Marketed as "G3", the company controls 70% of the Chinese mobile market but a far smaller percentage of the 3G market. [12] As of May 2012, its nearly 60 million 3G subscribers account for roughly 9% of its total subscriber base, [46] which is an increase from 3% in 2010. [12]

Its 3G network, still under construction in 2010, utilizes the TD-SCDMA standard, which China Mobile helped develop. 3G service is available in all of the 4 direct-controlled municipalities and most of the 283 prefecture-level cities in China as of 2010. [47]

4G

Marketed as "and和", as of 2010, China Mobile has debuted small-scale 4G demonstration networks using a variant of 3GPP's Long Term Evolution, TD-LTE, and has plans for larger, citywide demonstration networks in the future. [47] As of May 2012, such networks are in operation. [46]

While prior iPhone models could not use the China Mobile network due to the chipset relying on WCDMA-based networks, talks to carry the then unreleased 4G iPhone (iPhone 5) began in mid-2012. [46] The iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s were sold through China Mobile starting in January 2014. [48]

5G

China Mobile is developing a 5G service. As part of this development, Huawei has been awarded 52 percent of 5G contracts in 2023 (estimated at 45,426 base stations). [49]

Everest

In 2003 and again in 2007, China Mobile provided mobile services on Mount Everest. [50]

Spratly Isles coverage

In May 2011, China Mobile announced its network now includes the controversial Spratly Islands. [51]

See also

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