Based on its commitment to deploy commercial wireless services based on Long-Term Evolution, China Telecom has now been granted membership in the GSM Association.
According to the GSMA, China Telecom will begin the commercial deployment of LTE as early as 2010.
LTE was developed to enable a significant increase in the bandwidth achievable over mobile networks, while [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom and Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad have jointly launched the [...]

Indian state-owned telecom operator BSNL has announced that it canceled the 20 million GSM equipment [...]

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 [...]

The China Unicom Beijing branch has published a notice and says starting from September 1, 2009, the branch launched new charging policies for long-distance calls to cut mobile phone communication fees.
Prior to this, China Unicom's long-distance call fee consisted of two parts, the long-distance communication fee and the local communication fee. However, with the new [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has signed a strategic framework agreement with the provincial government of Hubei to improve the information level and to boost the electronic information industry of the province.
Li Xiansheng, executive deputy director of Hubei, said at the signing ceremony that information technology is an important driving force for the development of [...]

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a cooperative agreement with the Japanese mobile operator Willcom to provide ZTE's 3G data card product MF633 to users in Japan.
As the fourth largest mobile operator in Japan, Willcom is also the largest personal handyphone system operator in the country with 4.6 million users and great influence [...]

China's three major telecom operators, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, have published their operating statistics for June 2009.
According to operating statistics published by China Mobile, the number of its newly added users in June was 5.019 million, a growth slowdown compared with the 5.12 million new users in May. The number of its [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has signed a cooperative agreement with the Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera to deploy Europe's first SingleRan commercial network based on the software defined radio technology in the northern area of the country.
Huawei's SingleRan solution will allow TeliaSonera to simultaneously provide its GSM and UMTS services to subscribers in Finland. [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom has announced that it will formally close its C to G dual-mode card service, which allows China Telecom's CDMA network users to roam to China Unicom's GSM network, from August 1, 2009.
China Telecom Shanghai told local media that, according to plan, China Telecom will not provide the C to G [...]

According to reports in Pakistani local media, China Mobile plans to double the number of its base stations in Pakistan from the current 4,500 to 9,000 before the end of this year.
Previously this year, China Mobile announced that it would invest USD500 million in CMPak, China Mobile's subsidiary in Pakistan, in 2009 to expand the [...]

Starting tomorrow and lasting for three days, GoIndustry DoveBid will be hosting an inaugural online auction for Motorola in China to rid the company of a large quantity of mobile telecom test equipment used by Motorola in its Hangzhou facility.
The sale will include over 500 lots including GSM, CDMA and EDGE type test and measurement [...]

Another rumor about iPhone's entry into China has spread on the Chinese Internet. According to the network approval list of the State Radio Monitoring Center of China, a GSM/WCDMA mobile phone product of Apple has passed the model examination in China.
Because the iPhone is the only mobile phone product produced by Apple, the rumor that [...]

China Unicom has launched a user experience activity in Beijing to promote its new 3G business.
Before June 30, 2009, residents in Beijing can register via China Unicom's website and the company will randomly select 500 WCDMA experience users from these registered consumers. Users participating in this experience activity will have further opportunities to gain gifts, [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced at a press conference last week that in the first quarter of 2008, the three major Chinese telecommunications operators, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, invested a total amount of CNY120 billion in 3G development, achieving obvious effect on the promotion of relevant industries.
Zhu Jun, director [...]

The three major Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, have all published their latest operating statistics, with China Mobile and China Telecom providing their financial reports for the first quarter of 2009 and China Unicom revealing its performance for March 2009.
China Mobile said its net profit increased by 5.2% to CNY25.2 [...]

With rumors that China Unicom might be soon ink a formal deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to China, Chinese telecommunications rival China Mobile is hoping its new OPhone will keep the company competitive.
China Mobile has reportedly started testing the OPhone and gained good results. The OPhone handsets based on the enhanced data rate [...]

According to Chinese communications equipment makers, China Mobile may launch TD-SCDMA wireless telephone service in 38 cities nationwide in May 2009.
This new service is reportedly undergoing commercial trial in Shanghai and Guangdong and the largest selling point of this service is its low charges, with the local calling fee at low to CNY0.06 per minute.
The [...]

Nortel is greening the telecom sector with a new trial conducted with China Mobile that helps reduce radio network power consumption in GSM networks and delivers significant energy and cost-savings for mobile operators.
Nortel smart power management software enables network operators to switch off radio network equipment dynamically when there is no caller traffic being processed [...]

Mobile phone users in India are eyeing April 15, 2009, the day when as many as 25 million of their China-made mobile phones will die, with apprehension and concern.