China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.
The word "shanzhai" or "shanzai", literally meaning "remote village" in Cantonese, has become a popular name for Chinese fakes and the slang now refers [...]
Chinese Shanzhai Mobile Manufacturers Will Move Production To India
23 February 2010
India Starts To Block Chinese-made "Shanzai" Mobile Phones Without IMEI
03 December 2009
Nagpur, a city in central India, has started to cut the network access of some [...]
India Bans Import Of "Shanzai" Mobile Phones From China
22 June 2009
According to reports in Indian local media, the India government has decided to set stricter quality limits to imported mobile phones, dairy products, and toys and these measures reportedly target China.
The reports quoted the director of the Foreign Trade Bureau of India by saying that from now on, mobile phones without International Mobile Equipment Identities [...]
China Mobile Shanghai To Add Six Service Languages Before Year-end
06 May 2009
China Mobile Shanghai branch said it will add six new service languages in addition to the current English and Japanese languages of its foreign language call center before the end of 2009.
The six languages will be German, Spanish, Arabic, French, Korean, and Cantonese.
As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo draws near, more and more foreign technicians, [...]
China Mobile Launches Phone-based Interpretation Services
19 August 2008
Do you like Chinese food? Visitors to Beijing now have easy access to translation assistance when ordering food in restaurants, hailing a taxi, or navigating the hutongs of the ancient capital city.


