Advanced ID Corporation announced a distribution agreement with Carlyle Group that calls for mandatory microchip identification of over 1 million dogs in Guangdong province.

Zebra Technologies has forged an alliance with Digital China Holdings to make Digital China a value added distributor for Zebra in China.

Japan's Navitime has announced that it will open voice-activated global positioning services (GPS) in 51 cities across China this week in cooperation with China Unicom (CHU).

EPCglobal China has awarded licenses to a first group of seven Chinese manufacturers.

The creation of ASK TongFang marks ASK's entry into the Chinese RFID market with partner Tsinghua Tongfang (THTF), China's 3rd largest computer manufacturer.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has announced third quarter results for the period ended September 30, 2005.

China Telecom (CHA) says it will use SkyStream's zBand PUSH video-on-demand (VOD) platform in addition to SkyStream's suite of IP video networking solutions to expand its rural Internet and video-on-demand service to remote areas.

China's Ministry of Information Industry reports that as of the end of September, the number of mobile phone subscribers in China reached 377 million.

China Netcom's shareholders have passed the resolutions to a conditional sale and purchase agreement for the company to acquire telecommunication businesses in northern China.

ZTE has selected the Agere Systems APP300 network processor-based family of product offerings for its widely adopted Internet Protocol Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer platforms.

China Mobile (CHL) has agreed to purchase Hong Kong's China Resources Peoples Telephone (CR Peoples).

China Mobile (CHL) will initiate a large scale HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) test in the next two months as a final preparation for the upcoming 3G roll-out.

China Tietong's newly laid cables in the residential Xixin Complex in Beijing's Shunyi District were cut on the evening of October 17. China Tietong immediately reported this to the local police, believing it was done by its telecom competitor China Netcom (CN).

Alcatel (ALA) has chosen Shanghai for establishing its Asia-Pacific development center for enterprise network technology.

Opening its CDMA network in Macao this week, China Unicom (CHU) has become the first Chinese telecom operator to run mobile communications services out of the Mainland.

Chinese operators Guangdong Mobile and Guangxi Mobile have selected Ericsson (ERICY) to expand their respective GSM networks.

UTStarcom (UTSI) has signed new contracts valued at approximately US$42 million with China Telecom to expand IP-based Personal Access System (iPAS) networks in regions throughout China.

52 China Unicom (CHU) affiliated shop outlets in Beijing have been stripped of their business licenses by the Department of Industry and Commerce for failure to undergo yearly inspections.

NeuStar has launched Taiwan's Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) to enable landline and mobile customers to retain their phone numbers when switching communications service providers.

China Unicom (CHU) has launched a Push­to­Talk (PTT) service in China on its CDMA network.