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The History of China Mobile
Review the development of mobile phones in China.

Looking back on the development of China Mobile Phone 10 for more than 0 years, the development speed and scale of China mobile communication market have attracted worldwide attention. The development history of mobile phones in China is extraordinary, multiple and leaping.

China Telecom started to open mobile telephone service from 1987, and the subscriber growth rate was above 200% from 1993. From 1994, the scale of mobile users has exceeded one million, and the number of mobile phone users has almost doubled every year. 1July, 1997 17, the100000 user of China mobile phone was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, marking a new step for China mobile communication. It means that the number of mobile phone users in China has increased in less than 10 years, which exceeds the development course of fixed telephone 1 10 years. In August of 20001year, the number of mobile communication users in China exceeded10.2 billion, surpassing the United States and ranking first in the world. By the end of June 2003, the total number of mobile phone users had reached 234.47 million.

At present, the growth rate of mobile communication network in China ranks first in the world, and the total number of mobile users ranks first in the world.

◆1987165438+1October 18 The first TACS analog cellular mobile phone system in Guangdong Province was built and put into commercial use.

◆1On March 26th, 994, the Mobile Communications Bureau of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was established.

◆ 1994 19 On July 9, China's second large national state-owned telecommunications enterprise engaged in basic telecommunications services and value-added services-China United Communications Co., Ltd. (China Unicom for short) was established.

◆1994 65438+At the end of February, Guangdong took the lead in opening a GSM digital mobile phone network.

◆1995 In April, China Mobile also established networks in 15 provinces and cities nationwide, and the GSM digital mobile phone network was officially opened.

◆1995 In July, China Unicom's GSM 130 digital mobile phone network was opened in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

1996 Mobile phones roamed the whole country and began to provide international roaming services.

◆1July 1997 17 China Mobile's100000 mobile phone customer was born in Jiangsu.

◆199765438+1On October 22nd and 23rd, Guangdong Mobile Communications and Zhejiang Mobile Communications assets were injected into China Telecom (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (later renamed China Mobile (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.) and listed in new york and Hong Kong respectively.

◆1At the end of 997, four commercial CDMA experimental networks in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi and Guangzhou were successively built and opened, and roaming among them was realized.

◆ In August 1998, the number of mobile customers in China exceeded 20 million.

◆1999 At the end of April, according to the reorganization plan of China Telecom approved by the State Council, mobile communication was started separately.

◆1At 0: 00 on July 22nd, 999, the number of "GSM" mobile phone rose to 1 1 digit.

On February 6th, 2000, China Unicom and Qualcomm, as operators, signed a framework agreement on CDMA intellectual property rights, paving the way for the CDMA construction of China Unicom.

◆ On April 20th, 2000, China Mobile Communications Group was formally established. It is an important state-owned enterprise newly established on the basis of the separation of the original mobile communication network and services of China Telecom. On May 6th, 2000, China Mobile Communications Corporation was inaugurated.

◆ On June 2 1 2000 and June 22, 2000, China Unicom successfully listed in Hong Kong and new york respectively, entered the international capital market, and became a constituent stock of Hong Kong Hang Seng Index within one year.

On June 5438+ 10, 2000, China Unicom announced the start of CDMA network construction, and officially started the preparatory work at the end of that year.

◆ The 20011former army owned 133CDMA network was officially handed over to China Unicom after asset liquidation.

◆ In February, 20065438+0, Unicom established a wholly-owned subsidiary-Unicom New Time and Space Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the construction and operation of the entire Unicom CDMA network. At the same time, the specific planning of Unicom's CDMA network construction was officially launched.

◆ On March 28th, 20065438+0, the first phase system equipment procurement of Unicom CDMA construction project began to win the bid.

◆ On July 9th, 20065438+0, China Mobile GPRS(2.5G) system was put into commercial trial.

◆ 20011013 China Unicom Shanghai Branch took the lead in building a cdma- 1X high-speed mobile communication trial network in central cities on both sides of the Pujiang River, and demonstrated its preliminary application at the technology promotion meeting.

◆ In 2001year1/month 65438+4, China Unicom and China Mobile Communications Corporation signed the Telecommunication Network Interconnection Settlement Agreement between China Mobile Communications Corporation and China United Communications Co., Ltd.

◆ 200 1165438+1on October 26th, the1billionth customer representative of China Mobile Communications Group was born in Beijing, which indicates that China Mobile Communications has become the largest mobile communication operator in the world.

◆ 200165438+On February 22nd, Unicom's new space-time CDMA network was completed.

◆ 200165438+February 3 1 China mobile communication shut down TACS analog mobile phone network and stopped operating analog mobile telephone service.

On June 8th, 2002, the opening ceremony of China Unicom CDMA network was held in the Great Hall of the People.

◆ On June 8, 2002, China Netcom Group Beijing Zheng Tong Network Communication Co., Ltd. was announced to be established, becoming the seventh basic telecom service operator in China to be licensed by the Ministry of Information Industry after the six major operators of China Mobile, Telecom, Netcom, China Unicom, Tietong and Weitong.

◆ On March 5th, 2002, China Mobile Communication and Korean KTF Company formally signed a bilateral agreement on GSM-CDMA automatic roaming in Beijing. China Mobile took the lead in realizing automatic roaming between GSM-CDMA systems.

◆ On March 7th, 2002, China Unicom's A-share listing plan was successfully approved by the State Council to raise funds for CDMA projects.

◆ On April 8, 2002, Unicom's new space-time CDMA network was officially put into operation.

◆ May 65438+May 2002, China Telecom Group and China Network Communication Group were reorganized, and China Telecom and China Netcom were officially listed.

The newly established China Telecom Group Company is composed of 2/kloc-0 telecom companies in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China Telecom. The newly established China Netcom Group Company consists of the former China Telecom North 10 provincial and municipal telecom companies, the former China Netcom Company and China Jitong Company.

◆ In May, 2002, China Mobile and China Unicom exchanged short messages.

◆ On May 7th, 2002, the GPRS service of 65438+ China Mobile Communication was officially put into commercial use.

◆ In June 2002, 65438+1October, 65438+1October, China Mobile's MMS service was officially commercialized.

In June 2002, the number of CDMA users nationwide reached 4 million.

◆ On June 28th, 2003, Shanghai Unicom took the lead in opening CDMA 1X network, which marked that China Unicom's CDMA mobile communication fully entered the real 2.5G.

On March 28th, 2003, China Unicom announced that the CDMA 1X network was officially completed and opened. At the same time, Unicom also released a wireless data service brand named "U-MAX".

◆ On March 3, 20031day, Guangdong Unicom officially commercialized CDMA1X.

In July 2003, the scale of mobile communication network and the total number of users in China ranked first in the world, and the output of mobile phones accounted for about 1/3 of the global total, making China a veritable mobile phone producer.

In the first half of 2003, the total number of mobile users in China reached 234 million, with a penetration rate of 0/8.3 units per 100 people. Source: Blog China