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 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, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that UQ Communications, the mobile WiMAX license holder in Japan, has started deploying the WiMAX Pico base stations developed by ZTE in collaboration with Hitachi. The initial scale of this project will be over 1,200 base stations and the WiMAX Pico base stations will gradually enter commercial [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has signed an agreement with the Belgian wireless Internet equipment maker Option, to acquire all issued shares of M4S, Option's wholly-owned semiconductor company. M4S is currently developing a state-of-the-art, next-generation radio frequency chipset to be used in 4G devices. Option initiated a process in July 2010 to sell M4S to [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has cooperated with the Uzbekistan cellular communications provider UCell in the launch of a LTE network in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan. The construction of the network is based on ZTE's UniRAN solution using the advanced SDR technology. The network can support LTE services, including high definition [...]

China Mobile and Taiwanese Far Eastone Telecommunications have reportedly signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly construct a TD-LTE trial network and promote the development of TD-LTE technologies.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, executives from Far Eastone stated that the company will provide the telecom operating platform, equipment, and services to become a bridge between [...]

Alcatel-Lucent will soon deploy 3G WCDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces and municipalities.
China Unicom granted Alcatel-Lucent's Chinese subsidiary, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, this contract in which Alcatel-Lucent will provide about 11000 Node B base stations in Hebei, Fujian Guangxi, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Shandong and Xinjiang. The financial terms of [...]

According to an insider from China Mobile, the company will deploy its first TD-LTE trial network in Shanghai and will bring it into trial operation during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
This is also China Mobile's first 4G commercial trial network.
With coverage of 15 hectares, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Site has many permanent buildings, including [...]

Even though it already declared bankruptcy in Canada, Nortel is still working hard on expanding its business within China, and the company just unveiled details of its LTE TDD 4G tests.
Nortel has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a TDD-based LTE network, working with commercial grade LTE base station and device prototypes [...]

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has won a contract from TeliaSonera, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Nordic and Baltic regions, to deploy the world's first LTE commercial network in Oslo, the capital of Norway.