A unit of state-owned China Mobile Corp. said Tuesday it is expanding bandwidth in its cable network to Europe to meet growing demand for more data transmission.
China Mobile (Europe) Ltd. said it will expand service using the Transit Europe Asia and China Russia Number 2 cables. It said extensions to both routes are planned for the second half of this year to connect them with Asia-Pacific networks.
"Business, political and social links between Europe and China are growing rapidly," the managing director of the London-based unit, Yan Ou, said in a statement. "As ties between the two continents grow, so will the need for quicker, more integrated telecommunications."
Beijing-based China Mobile Phone is the country's dominant fixed-line carrier. It has expanded into data transmission and other services as mobile service rises in popularity and revenues for traditional fixed-line voice service fall.
China Mobile said it also plans to open a network access point in Dubai within the year to expand its presence in the Middle East. Its European arm has access points in London, Stockholm and Frankfurt.
