In the recently held "2015 China Virtual Operation Development Forum”, the vice President and Secretary of CACE and President of branch of Virtual Operation Association Miao Jianhua said, 20 of the 42 domestic mobile resale services enterprises have formally begun number allocation by the end of March, 2015, with over 4.1 million MVNO subscribers developed cumulatively in domestic.
At the meeting, the general manager of Regulatory Department of China Unicom Zhou Renjie said that China Unicom would fully support the resale of its 4G business and the business development of the resale enterprises.
At the same time, a person in charge of China Mobile's Marketing Department said that China Mobile will open all the network capacities to all the mobile resale enterprises, with no distinguish among the 2G/3G/4G. At present, China Mobile has signed 17 mobile resale partners. It is expected that China Mobile will release 800,000 numbers by the end of June, and strive to make it 2 million by the end of this year. However, according to the research results, the number allocation may be much higher than expected.