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China Unicom

 
Hoover's Profile: China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited
(NYSE:CHU) (Hong Kong:0762)
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China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited
75th Fl., The Center, 99 Queen's Rd. Central
Hong Kong
Tel. +852-2126-2018
Fax +852-2126-2016

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.chinaunicom.com.hk
Employees: 204,615
Employee growth: 259.5%

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited has brought competition to the world's largest telecommunications market. The Chinese government set up China Unicom in 1994 as the first competitor to another government-owned telecommunications monopoly. The state-controlled company provides long-distance, broadband data, and mobile communications services in 31 provinces, cities, and other regions throughout China. It is the country's #2 mobile phone operator behind former monopoly China Mobile Communications. Subsidiary China Netcom is China's #2 provider of fixed-line communications carrier behind China Telecom. It operates primarily in the northern provinces; major cities served include Beijing and Tianjin.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $21,725.4M
One year growth: 59.7%
Net income: $4,947.9M
Income growth: 289.2%

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Chang Xiaobing
President and Director: Lu Yimin
CFO and Director: Tong Jilu

Competitors:
China Mobile Communications
China Telecom Corporation Limited
Shanghai Mobile

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China Unicom (HK) Ltd
Type Public company
SEHK: 0762
SSE: 600050
NYSECHU
Founded 2000
Headquarters Beijing  China
Area served Mainland China
Key people Chairman & CEO
Chang Xiaobing
CFO
Tong Jilu
Industry Telecommunication
Products Voice services
Mobile services
Internet Broadband
Revenue RMB ¥99 billion (2007)
Net income RMB ¥9.3 billion (2007)[1]
Employees 48,162 [2]
Parent China United Telecommunications Corporation Limited
Website www.chinaunicom.com/

China Unicom or China United Netcom (Hong Kong) Ltd (Chinese: 中国联合网络通信公司,中国联通), (SEHK: 0762 SSE: 600050 NYSECHU), is a telecommunications operator in the People's Republic of China.

China Unicom (BVI) Limited effectively holds 40.92% of the company and China Netcom Group (BVI) Limited holds 29.49,[3] while the remainder is traded on the Shanghai, Hong Kong and the New York stock exchanges.[4] Both majority shareholders are state controlled enterprises.[3]

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History

China Unicom was founded as a Government-owned corporation, established on July 19, 1994, by the Ministry of Information Industry and approved by the State Council.

Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a wide range of services including nationwide GSM mobile network, long-distance, local calling, data communication, Internet services and IP telephony in mainland China, and has operated a CDMA network in Macau since 18 October 2006. As of the end of April 2008, the company had 125 million GSM subscribers and 43 million CDMA subscribers.[5] As of November 2008 the CDMA operations have been moved to China Telecom and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) has just launched in major cities across China on May 17, 2009.

Compared to other mobile providers China Unicom is ranked as the world's third-biggest mobile provider. On 7 January, 2009, China Unicom was awarded WCDMA license to expand its business to 3G telecommunication.[6]

In July 2009, China Unicom signed a $700 million deal with infrastructure vendor Ericsson to upgrade the company's GSM network.

Merger with China Netcom

On June 2 2008, China Unicom announced its intention to sell its CDMA business and assets to China Telecom for a combined total of 110 billion RMB [7] and to merge the remainder of the company, in a share swap valued at USD $56.3 billion (based on Unicom's stock last traded price) on June 2, 2008, with China Netcom.[8] The CDMA business was officially moved to China Telecom in early November.

In February 2000 China Unicom became incorporated in Hong Kong and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 22 June 2000. They are an MVNO running on Three's 2G network. They are the only provider to sell SIMs that provide native phone numbers on both sides of the border (charging slightly higher rates than local while in the mainland, but cheaper than roaming with another provider- in some cases even cheaper than a SIM from another Chinese province if being used in Shenzhen/Guangzhou area).

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