Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has announced plans to invest up to USD150 million in India in 2012 to promote its business growth. Sures Vaidyanathan, Huawei's spokesperson in India, told local media that Huawei is committed to the long-term development in India, and it will accelerate the development of enterprise business, terminal business, 2G capacity [...]

According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million. China Unicom reported that the number of its newly increased 3G users was over three million for the first time in [...]

Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012. Instead, the company will try to focus only on smartphone manufacturing. Li told local media that Coolpad's mobile device shipments in the entire year of 2011 is [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees. This is reportedly the largest layoff in the history of Nokia Siemens. According to the company, it had about 74,000 employees worldwide by November 1, 2011, which means one out of [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published its user statistics for September 2011, stating that the number of its 2G mobile users increased by 81.59% compared with the previous month and its 3G users increased by 15.28%. The company said that during the reporting period, its 2G users saw a net increase of 572,000, which [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published its operating statistics for June 2011, stating that the number of its 2G mobile phone users increased by 417,000 and its 3G users increased by 1.855 million during the reporting period. China Unicom said that during June 2011, it gained 417,000 new 2G mobile phone users, but it [...]

A subsidiary of Telenor and a wireless telecom operator in Malaysia, DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has announced the appointment of ZTE Corporation to build a unified mobile network that will provide DiGi with fully transformed 2G/3G/4G network, starting from the third quarter of 2011. This new network is reportedly be able to deliver download speeds [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Xi'an, Shaanxi, to invest CNY16 billion for the construction of a wireless city infrastructure. Under the agreement, the two parties will jointly promote the building of Xi'an as a wireless city. They will implement cooperation in various sectors, including the building [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has signed cooperating agreements with five mobile phone retail channel providers in Guangdong. The five mobile phone retail chain enterprises include Shenzhen Hengbo, Guangdong Dadi, Dongguan Jietong, Guangdong Junhe, and Guangdong Longyue. This is reportedly the first time for China Unicom to sign comprehensive strategic cooperating agreements with regional mobile [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that it has signed a USD100 million contract with the New Zealand-based mobile network 2degrees to help the company upgrade its network over the next two years. Eric Hertz, chief executive officer of 2degrees, said that the investment will ensure the company's network is ready to handle [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published a report, stating that by December 31, 2010, the company had opened 3G international roaming and short message services in collaboration with 195 operators in 98 countries and regions. According to the report, China Unicom has cooperated with 487 operators in 238 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks' latest financial report shows that during the forth quarter of 2010, its net sales in the Greater China region reached EUR506 million, a year-on-year increase of 20% and an increase of 63% compared with the previous quarter. According to the report, the company's total net sales in the reporting period was EUR3.961 [...]

Chinese wireless value-added services company KongZhong Corporation revealed its unaudited third quarter 2010 financial results and stated its total revenues increased 7% year-over-year to USD37.67 million. However, the company says it expects total revenues for the fourth quarter to be within the range of USD35.5 million to 36.5 million. KongZhong's total gross profit for the [...]

ZTE Corporation will soon jointly introduce China Unicom's multi-platform, multi-device application store called the "WoStore" into Hong Kong. "With a unique advantageous WCDMA network, China Unicom is optimistic about the potential of its WoStore service," said ZTE Vice President Yu Yifang. "ZTE is honored to be the sole partner for the online service platform and [...]

Chinese mobile Internet company KongZhong Corporation today announced its unaudited second quarter 2010 financial results. Total revenues for the quarter increased 9% year-over-year to USD35.3 million and total gross margin was 48% in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 44% from the previous quarter in 2010. Net income was USD2.6 million, and KongZhong [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed its tests in Tianjin and will start the trial operation of the mobile phone number portability service from October 2010. The mobile phone number portability service allows users of a telecom operator to change their mobile communication service providers and enjoy the services of the new [...]

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the Japanese communication giant NTT DoCoMo, regarding LTE-PF, a mobile terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution. Upon the completion of the LTE-PF licensing agreement, MediaTek plans to integrate this LTE technology with its 2G and 3G technologies to provide [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published its operating statistics for March 2010.
According to the report, China Unicom's 2G users reached 147.263 million by the end of the month, a net increase of 873,000 compared with the previous month; and the number of its 3G users increased by 759,000, including 23,600 new 3G wireless network [...]

Chinese mobile wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation announced its unaudited third quarter 2009 financial results and stated its profit and revenue grew over the previous quarter.
Total revenues increased 40% year-over-year and increased 9% quarter-over-quarter to USD35.1 million. Net income in the quarter was USD4.50 million, a 27% increase compared with the previous quarter's net [...]

Indian state-owned telecommunications operator BSNL has announced that it has placed a purchase order of mobile communication equipment of 20 million GSM lines for India's southern zone to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and will not call for any new bids.
Kuldeep Goyal, chairman and general manager for BSNL, said that they have already given [...]