China Telecom is reportedly inking a deal with Britain's Everything Everywhere to launch mobile services in the country. Everything Everywhere is a UK mobile operator jointly invested by France's Orange and Germany's T-Mobile. According to the agreement, China Telecom (Europe), China Telecom's wholly-owned subsidiary for the EMEA region, will launch an MVNO on the network [...]

Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012. Instead, the company will try to focus only on smartphone manufacturing. Li told local media that Coolpad's mobile device shipments in the entire year of 2011 is [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and Deutsche Telekom have signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding to jointly expand services within the enterprise business market. This move marks Huawei's further step of its expansion into the high-end market in Europe. Under the framework agreement signed between the two parties, Huawei and Deutsche Telekom will implement [...]

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's shipments in China decreased by over 50% compared with the previous quarter and its operating losses reached EUR487 million. Nokia has recently published its financial report for the second quarter of 2011, stating that its performance in China and [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced the official opening of its new subsidiary in Singapore. The Chinese company has appointed Liu Hong the new general manager to be in charge of the daily management of the newly-established subsidiary. China Unicom's Singapore branch is located in Suntec City, providing three types of products and services, [...]

The European Union has launched anti-dumping investigation against Chinese-made wireless wide area networking modems. In a case valued at USD4.1 billion, the official website of the Ministry of Commerce of China, states this case may harm interactions between Europe and China. A representative from the ministry told local media that this is the first time [...]

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 [...]

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced plans to open a research and development lab in the test and innovation center operated by Vodafone's German subsidiary in Dusseldorf to enhance its R&D and test capacity in Europe.
The two parties signed an agreement on the cooperation during the CeBIT 2010, held in Hanover, Germany.
The new [...]

During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years.
The first tier are mobile phones with retail prices [...]

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has published its annual financial report for 2008 and states that its global sales increased by 42.7% year-on-year to USD18.33 billion, which equals about CNY125 billion, while its net profit increased by 20% year-on-year to USD1.15 billion, about CNY7.9 billion.
Of the total USD18.33 billion revenue, 75% was from the [...]

The Joint Innovation Lab established by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help accelerate the uptake of innovative mobile technologies on a mass-market scale has a new member: Verizon Wireless.
The addition of Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone, would mean that the JIL now has a combined customer reach of approximately [...]

Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has confirmed that the company has sent a group to Europe to purchase 3G communications equipment and has signed contracts with European companies, including the Germany-based Nokia Siemens Networks.
Zuo Xunsheng, vice general manager for China Unicom, reportedly arrived in Germany last week with China's trade and investment delegation sent by [...]

According to Ihab Ghattas, assistant president of Huawei Middle East, the Chinese telecommunications equipment and solutions provider plans to launch its first LTE/SAE commercial network in June 2009, providing LTE/SAE infrastructure to mobile operators.

ZTE Corporation, China's leading telecom equipment manufacturer, has announced that its WiMAX 16e system gained the Wave2 qualification certification issued by the WiMAX Forum.

Digit Wireless and ZTE have signed a deal to expand their existing relationship for the design, development, and commercial deployment of a portfolio of mobile phones enabled with Digit Wireless' Fastap technology.

China Mobile will open a Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in London to provide service to overseas Chinese. In addition, the company also plans to build virtual mobile networks in Europe.