Free-of-charge Wi-Fi services are now reportedly available in the main city area of Hangzhou. Wu Lihui, general manager for wireless planning department of Wasu Digital TV, explained that at present, there are two types of Wi-Fi services provided to citizens and tourists in Hangzhou. For users who use mobile phones to access the wireless Internet, [...]

U.S.-based CommScope Inc. has filed technology patent infringement lawsuits in China and begun legal proceedings in Brazil against Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Ltd. and its affiliates. The legal actions by CommScope, through its Andrew LLC subsidiary, focuses on Comba's alleged infringement of the company's patents related to its remote electrical tilt technology for base station [...]

The Sichuan provincial government has officially issued its wireless city working plan for 2011, stating that the province will invest CNY5 billion this year to build 9,600 3G network base stations. The 2011 working plan includes the goals, key tasks, and safeguard measures for the wireless city construction across Sichuan province. For network construction, Sichuan [...]

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 [...]

According to related files provided by China Unicom Beijing branch, the company has completed the construction of 5,200 WCDMA macrocellular base stations and nearly 6,000 microcellular base stations in Beijing, boasting the largest WCDMA local network in the world by number and scale of base stations. China Unicom Beijing's 3G signals have reportedly covered all [...]

The joint construction and sharing of Shanghai's telecom infrastructures has played an important role in the city's major projects, including the World Expo site, Hongqiao traffic hub, and Lingang new city, and the three major Chinese telecom operators claim to have realized full joint construction and sharing of mobile base stations for the 2010 Shanghai [...]

Ericsson has signed separate framework agreements with China Mobile and China Unicom, with the total value of USD1.8 billion.
According to Ericsson's agreement with China Mobile, it will provide a multi-standard radio base station RBS 6000 and mobile soft-switching technology to the Chinese operator to enhance its network capacity and evolve it into an IP network. [...]

Taiwan's WiMAX operator Tatung InfoComm is planning to set up an operator interoperability testing laboratory in cooperation with local government-sponsored groups and related organizations.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Lin Dongliang, general manager for Tatung InfoComm, said although most WiMAX devices are made in Taiwan, these devices have to be sent to a WiMAX [...]

China Mobile Shenyang Branch has set up a high frequency transmission base station near a kindergarten in Shenyang's Dongling district, which parents and teachers think may threaten the health of the children in the kindergarten.
CMSB's transmission base station was built on the roof of a 2-floor building. Being about 20 meters tall, the base station [...]

According to Guo Keli, vice director of Beijing Communications Administration, China currently implements strict standards to limit electromagnetic radiation of communication facilities such as 3G base stations and these standards are even stricter than those in some developed countries.
Guo said after the issuance of 3G licenses in China, large-scale constructions of 3G base stations have [...]

China Mobile has unveiled the results for its third-phase TD-SCDMA network tender which covers 200 Chinese cities.
According to the results, ZTE, Huawei, and Datang Mobile gain a total market share of 72%, with ZTE gaining 34%, Huawei gaining 22% and Datang Mobile, 16%; and the remaining five companies, including New Postcom, FiberHome, Nokia Siemens Networks, [...]

According to reports in Pakistani local media, China Mobile plans to double the number of its base stations in Pakistan from the current 4,500 to 9,000 before the end of this year.
Previously this year, China Mobile announced that it would invest USD500 million in CMPak, China Mobile's subsidiary in Pakistan, in 2009 to expand the [...]

Having launched its first batch of 3G network interface cards, China Telecom will soon start the commercial operation of its 3G mobile phone services and the company has already launched a user experience activity in Beijing, in which 2,000 users will be the first to experience China Telecom's 3G services.
China Telecom has already opened its [...]

Nortel is greening the telecom sector with a new trial conducted with China Mobile that helps reduce radio network power consumption in GSM networks and delivers significant energy and cost-savings for mobile operators.
Nortel smart power management software enables network operators to switch off radio network equipment dynamically when there is no caller traffic being processed [...]

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 a Chinese TD-SCDMA equipment provider, China Mobile will launch its third round 3G wireless network equipment tender on March 16, 2009.
According to the document published by China Mobile, the company will buy equipment for its 39,000 base stations deployed in 200 Chinese cities, including Foshan, Wuxi and Wenzhou. This tender is reportedly 1.6 [...]

China Mobile, one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, has just published its corporate social responsibility report for 2008.
In the report, China Mobile says that it invested a total of CNY19.5 billion in 2008 to make mobile telephone services accessible in more than 60,000 remote villages in China. In addition, it donated up to [...]

Communication on China's new 3G network can now make it to the roof of the world, as China Mobile Tibet branch has announced that its first TD-SCDMA trial base station in Tibet has been opened in Lhasa and the first TD-SCDMA mobile phone call in the history of Tibet was … Read More>>

According to an insider quoted by local Chinese media, the result for China Unicom's WCDMA tender has been revealed, though the detailed statistics are currently not available.

As one of the providers that had gained the largest share in China Telecom's first CDMA tender, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has delivered the CDMA base stations in 100 Chinese cities of 24 provinces to China Telecom, including those in Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, … Read More>>