Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that its operating revenue reached CNY82.11 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Of the total operating revenue, CNY41.05 billion was contributed by the mobile businesses, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%; while CNY40.11 billion was from the fixed [...]

China's Ku6 Media Company Ltd., which boasts a new focus on Internet video services after dumping its poor wireless services offerings and its old name of Hurray, today announced its unaudited financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. On August 17, 2010, the company announced that it changed its name to Ku6 [...]

Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE Corporation has published its interim results for the first half of 2010 ended June 30. During the first half of 2010, ZTE achieved operating revenue of CNY30.725 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.89%; its net profit was CNY877 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.02%; and its basic earnings per share [...]

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 Mobile Limited announced today that its chief executive officer has been replaced. Effective today, Wang Jianzhou has ceased to be the CEO, but he remains executive director and chairman of the telecommunications firm Li Yue, executive director and vice president of the company, has been re-designated as executive director and CEO of China Mobile. [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, the international telecommunications hardware, software, and services company, has announced that it will deploy an IP Multimedia Subsystem core platform for China Mobile to offer IMS-based multimedia application services to the enterprise customers of this Chinese telecom operator. China Mobile has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to implement its IMS core platform, hiQ [...]

Chinese online game firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited announced that it has completed its business swap with Ku6 Media Company Limited. The companies entered into the transaction on June 1, 2010. Ku6 has now acquired 75% of an online audio business from Shanda in exchange for 415,384,615 newly issued ordinary shares of Ku6, and it [...]

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 [...]

China Wireless, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Chinese mobile phone maker Yulong Coolpad, has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of HKD2.102 billion, a year-on-year increase of 193.8%; and it achieved net profit of HKD272 million, a year-on-year increase of 740.4%. China [...]

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 [...]

The Indian government has amended its telecom security rules, stating that India telecom operators can resume their imports of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment, but stricter rules will be applied. According to a statement published by the Department of Telecommunications of India, due to security reasons, all telecom equipment suppliers must share their source code and design [...]

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated net revenues grew 10% year over year. Sina reported net revenues of USD99.4 million, compared to USD90.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were USD73.1 [...]

Chinese online services company Sohu.com Inc. today reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Total revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010 were USD146.1 million, up 15% year-over-year and 13% quarter-over-quarter. Of that total, brand advertising revenues totaled USD53.2 million, up 22% year-over-year and 35% quarter-over-quarter, and online [...]

Motorola has raised a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei in the United States, accusing the Chinese company of trade secret theft. Motorola claimed that during a certain period in the 1990s, many of its former employees offered detailed information about Motorola's networking structure technologies, including seamless mobile solutions, to Huawei. In an [...]

According to statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of May 2010, the number of China's 3G users had reached 21.9 million, an increase of 8.642 million compared with the end of 2009. In addition, China's 3G networks added 2.3 million new users in May 2010, an increase of [...]

News apparently from Datang reveals that the Chinese government has decided to merge the two stated-owned telecom equipment makers, Datang Telecom and Potevio, before the end of 2010. According to a report on the English-language website of China Daily, upon the completion of the merger, the new company will become the third largest telecom equipment [...]

China Telecom and the State Grid Corporation of China have signed a strategic framework agreement in Beijing to jointly promote Fiber to the Home construction. Under the agreement, the two parties will cooperate in six sectors. First, they will discover complementary resource activities in the infrastructure sector to jointly promote the FTTH construction. Second, they [...]

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has made a strategic minority equity investment in Aurora Feint Inc., an American mobile game developer. Jun Zhu, The9's chairman and CEO, stated: "We are confident of the prospect for this mobile platform and believe it will play an important role in the future development of global mobile internet. The [...]

Shyue-Ching Lu, chairman of Chunghwa Telecom, has revealed that the company plans to set up a subsidiary on the Chinese mainland in the second half of 2010, with expected capital of TWD1 billion.
The company is reportedly undecided on the company name of the new subsidiary, but it will probably be Chunghwa Telecom China Ltd.
Due to [...]

To avoid delay of telecom projects, officers from India's Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Telecommunications, and intelligence organizations have jointly decided to allow Indian operators to import Chinese-made telecom equipment that are authorized by international security audit firms, or with the guarantee of banks.
Electronic Warfare Associates in Canada, Infoguard in the [...]