According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years.
The statistics from MIIT show that in January and [...]

Affected by the global financial crisis and the delayed launch of its new mobile phone products, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC states that its net profit decreased by 30% year-on-year to USD146.7 million in the first quarter of 2009.
HTC's financial report shows by March 31, 2009, its net profit decreased from NTD6.94 billion in the [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a report on China's electronics manufacturing industry in the first two months of 2009, which states that the country's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% during the period.
The MIIT says affected by the global financial crisis, both the manufacturing and export of China's electronics products have [...]

Germany's Infineon Technologies AG has signed a letter of intent for a framework purchase agreement amounting to USD68 million with China's Huawei Technologies.
This deal, as an important part of the recent European procurement tour of the Chinese business delegation, is intended to supply end-to-end chip solutions to Huawei's wireline and wireless communication systems. Infineon will [...]

Chairman of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou says that the company is negotiating with three major Taiwanese telecommunications operators to launch a roaming service.
Wang told local media that China Mobile is currently discussing with Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile, and Far Eastone Telecommunications on future cooperative agreements. He said while attending the current CPPCC meeting last week [...]

The global financial crisis is finding new corpses in China as interactive mobile services firm Jingwei International Limited issued a profit warning for the fourth quarter of 2008.
The company says that due to rapid deterioration in economic condition at the end of 2008, Jingwei's consolidated net profit for the quarter ended December 31, 2008, is [...]

Chinese wireless value-added service firm KongZhong Corporation reported its unaudited fourth quarter 2008 financial results and showed a negligible quarterly profit and overall net loss for 2008.
While the company gleefully proclaimed that quarterly revenues exceeded guidance, with total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 increasing 34% year-over-year and 7% quarter-over-quarter to USD26.74 million, net [...]

Even though it already declared bankruptcy in Canada, Nortel is still working hard on expanding its business within China, and the company just unveiled details of its LTE TDD 4G tests.
Nortel has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a TDD-based LTE network, working with commercial grade LTE base station and device prototypes [...]

The global financial crisis has reared its head at Motorola, and the company has cut about 1000 staff in China in the last couple of months.
A public relations representative from Motorola China has confirmed the staff reduction to local media. People affected are all from the mobile phone department. There were reportedly 450 staff within [...]

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% [...]

Beleaguered Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong (KONG) has announced that Sam Sun, its chief financial officer, is leaving the company by the end of the week.
While it's never a good corporate omen for a CFO to flee so quickly from a company, while Sun will officially depart on February 1, 2009, he will stay [...]

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

China's Focus Media (FMCN), China's largest digital media group, today provided an update on the expected charges resulting from the restructuring of its CGEN in-store advertising network and announced the termination of its remaining wireless advertising business.

According to Guo Ping, executive vice president of Huawei, the company's revenue from its mobile phone business is expected to increase 74% year-on-year to USD4 billion and the annual growth rate of its terminal business will top 30% in the next five years, because of the increased demands in emerging … Read More>>

There is a financial crisis afoot, Chinese mobile value-added services firms are struggling, but at least one analyst believes that companies will continue to reap big profits.

Ren Weiguang, vice president and general manager of Motorola's (MOT) mobile business in China, resigned on October 31, 2008.

Global financial woes have hit Hong Kong's PCCW as it announced it is discontinuing the bidding process for the acquisition of up to a 45% interest in HKT Group Holdings Limited.