China Financial Daily

3G iPad passed China’s 3C certification, China Unicom is expected to sell iPad this month
Reporter learned from the CCC certification platform, Apple 3G version of the iPad has passed China’s 3C certification, and there is news that China Unicom is expected to begin selling iPad this month. The use of WCDMA is only belonging to China Unicom in China, so this product is China Unicom version of iPad.

China Unicom, the medium-term revenue of 78.5 billion
China Unicom [6.09 -6.31%] (600.05 thousand) today released its 2009 interim results. In the first half, the company actively promote internal integration, to play a full-service resources, the rapid promotion of commercial 3G trial, increase business development efforts and work have made new progress. Corporate restructuring after the merger in accordance with the method of calculation, the company achieved operating income of 78.49 billion yuan, among which mobile communication services revenue to achieve 35.07 billion yuan, an increase of 6.2%; fixed-line business communications services revenue achieved 41.4 billion yuan, down by 9.8 year on year in constant %. Among fixed-line business, broadband business income of 120.9 billion yuan, up 10.3%. Net profit of 65.1 billion yuan, down 45.2%, attributable net profit of 2.19 billion parent company, basic earnings per share 0.103 yuan. The company accumulated a net increase of the number of GSM users to 7.012 million users a total of 14,037.7 million. Mobile value-added mobile communications services business accounted for the proportion of revenues to 26.8%, rising by 2.5 percentage points. Company’s fixed-line broadband subscribers total 4.832 million net users total 3,491.3 million.

China Unicom on January 7 access to 3G (WCDMA) operating license, efforts to promote 3G network construction and business operations to prepare, the network has formed the scale of coverage. During the year, 3G network coverage to 284 cities by the beginning of the year expanded to around 335. At the same time, 3G commercial trial according to plan, is moving forward smoothly.