Swedish networking equipment maker Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson has announced that to meet the increasing demands for telecom management services in China and the world, the company will set up a new global network operating center in China. The company said that the new global network operating center aims to enhance its managed service delivery [...]

Ericsson's roadshow for its integrated TV solutions has been officially started in Shanghai and this activity will cover 12 cities in China, showcasing the company's latest technologies and solutions for integrated TV. According to the plan, the series of roadshows will be held in 12 Chinese cities from March to May 2011, covering Shanghai, Nanjing, [...]

Ericsson has acquired Guangdong Nortel Telecommunication Equipment Company for USD50 Million. As the joint venture of the global communication giant Nortel in China, Guangdong Nortel was founded in 1995. It is dedicated to introducing high-end technology and actively promoting localization of research, development, production and services with its telecommunication technology, reliable product quality, and specialist [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Ericsson has sued companies, including D-Link, Acer and Netgear, in Texas, U.S., for infringement of wireless products. The reports state that the prosecuted businesses in Ericsson's lawsuit include D-Link's parent company; D-Link's subsidiary in America; Acer's parent company; Acer's subsidiary in America; Netgear; and Gateway, which has been [...]

France-based 4G chipmaker Sequans has opened a new office in Shanghai. Sequans said it established the local presence to better serve its Chinese customers and to more readily respond to the company's rapidly growing business demands in China. Concurrently, Sequans announced the appointment of Alex Shang to the position of China country manager. Shang has [...]

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 [...]

According to reports in foreign media, BSNL, the state-owned telecom operator in India, has banned the Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE from the bidding for the GSM projects in the northern and eastern zones in India.
Kuldeep Goyal, chairman of BSNL, said that compared with Chinese-made equipment, those made by Western European manufacturers are [...]

Mats H Olsson, Ericsson's head of China and Northeast Asia, said during the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held in Shanghai from May 17 to May 18, 2010, that Ericsson has decided not to enter the Chinese CDMA equipment market again.
Early in 2005, Ericsson announced that in would gradually withdraw from the CDMA market. However, in [...]

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. [...]

Lu Jiansheng, vice president of Sony Ericsson Group and director of Sony Ericsson China, has [...]

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 [...]

Ericsson has gained a contract from China Telecom to upgrade the operator's backbone network in the Yangtze River Delta area with its 40 Gbps DWDM optical transmission solution.
Under the contract, Ericsson will use its 40 Gbps DWDM solution, the MHL 3000 series, to upgrade China Telecom's 10G DWDM network connecting Yangtze River Delta cities such [...]

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, [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has published the ratings for its third round TD-SCDMA equipment tender, with ZTE, Huawei, and Datang gaining listings on the top.
Focusing on ratings in aspects such as business, technology, post-assessment, brand, and industry contribution, this tender reportedly covers 200 Chinese cities, which is expected to determine the basic structure 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 [...]

According to local Chinese media reports, the upper management of China's leading telecommunications operator China Mobile will soon go to Finland to promote Nokia's research and production of TD-SCDMA mobile phones.
To stimulate manufacturers' enthusiasm, China Mobile will, with the help of relevant government departments, provide policy support to international mobile phone manufacturers who support the [...]

While some companies around the world are responding to the financial crisis with job cuts, the newly issued 3G licenses in China have caused Ericsson to plan a hiring spree of several hundred new employees in China in 2009.
Chinese media previously reported that Ericsson China would cut 150 staff in March 2009, accounting for 5% [...]

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.

According to an insider from China Unicom, the company has required its branches in major Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, to finish construction of WCDMA networks before April 17, 2009, and then to start a one-month internal operation and system test to make preparations for the official launch … Read More>>

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies increased its sales by 46% year-on-year to USD23.3 billion in 2008.