January 2018
China Unicom and Tencent signed strategic agreement to roll out cooperation in Big Data applying in various areas including information security and anti-financial fraud, etc.
March 2018
China Unicom officially launched “eSIM – One Number in Two Terminals” service in 6 cities, including Shanghai
June 2018
2018 China Unicom completed IPv6 upgrades for its official web portal to enable visits compatible with IPv6
July 2018
China Unicom implemented the national policy of the cancellation of domestic mobile data “roaming” charges, whereby provincial local data was upgraded to nationwide data (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan data) for existing and new mobile subscribers
August 2018
Yunlizhihui Technology, a joint venture
established with Alibaba, launched to
provide government and enterprise
customers with customised application
software services
China Unicom established 5G Innovation Lab to drive 5G in vertical applications and advance promotion in scale
October 2018
China Unicom Yunnan was officially
included in the list of “Double-hundred
Action”, State Council’s proposal for
State-owned Enterprise Reform, and
started to openly recruit privately-owned
enterprises to become operation partners
November 2018
China Unicom-led’s first international
submarine optical fibre cable across
the South Atlantic commenced in
commercial operation, being the first
inter-continental high-speed direct
submarine cable connecting Africa and
South America across the South Atlantic
December 2018
China Unicom received approval from
Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology to use the frequency band
of 3500–3600MHz for the launch of 5G
system trial nationwide in Mainland China
China Unicom held “5G-powered Smart Winter Olympics” presentation to announce three major plans under its Smart Winter Olympics Strategy