China Mobile to capitalize on cloud computing

China's telecom titan, the China Cellular Communications Group, is planning to make a cloud computing base in north China's Interior Mongolia autonomous region to bolster its online knowledge administration services.

Wang Jianzhou, board chairman of China Cellular, stated Friday that the firm has signed a memorandum together with the regional authorities to create the cloud computing base inside the city of Hohhot.

China Mobile has promised to pool twelve billion yuan (1.nine billion U.S. money) for that development of the facility, that's predicted to accommodate forty,000 servers.

Wang mentioned Inner Mongolia's ample wind electricity and coal sources can help to ensure electrical energy materials for your mammoth computing facility.

He said the facility will support the company's foreseeable future company improvement, such as TD-LTE, or "Time Division-Long Term Evolution," better recognized since the country's homegrown 4G standard.

Li Zhengmao, China Mobile's vice president, explained final month which the production of smart cell phones has jumped 50 % year-on-year globally. The continuous improvement and deepened applications of 3G and LTE technology imply that mobile World wide web has entered a brand new phase for quick development, Li said.

China Mobile, with greater than 630 million subscribers, could be the world's greatest telecommunications firm by quantity of end users. It registered 43 million 3G buyers as of the finish of September, according towards the group's third-quarter report.