With a total investment of CNY4 billion, China Mobile's new call center in Luoyang, Henan province, has been formally launched. The new call center is reportedly the largest of its kind in the world. It marks China Mobile's new move to realize integrated management of call centers, which were divided by administrative regions in the [...]

Foxconn, the original equipment manufacturer for Apple products, is reportedly expanding its manufacturing capacity in 2012, aiming to increase production for iPhones and iPads to meet the ever-growing market demand. According to reports in Chinese local media, Foxconn is cooperating with the municipal government of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, to double the number of [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom and Five Star Appliance, Best Buy's electronics retail subsidiary in China, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering various services of China Unicom. Under the agreement, Five Star Appliance will set up special zones in its stores in China to handle businesses and sell mobile phones for China Unicom. Users [...]

Chinese portal website Sina.com has published its first white paper targeting the Chinese microblog market. The white paper reveals that by the end of 2010, there will be over 65 million registered active accounts in the Internet microblog sector in China; by 2011, the number will be over 100 million. Statistics show that Sina's microblog [...]

Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of [...]

Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it will cooperate with China Mobile to launch a new mobile phone short message-based price comparison service.
With this new service, mobile phone users will be able to inquire about the prices of goods sold on Taobao.com when they are shopping [...]

According to Henan Communications Administration, basic telecom operating companies in this province have launched a joint processing platform to fight Chinese mobile text short messages and to further improve the coordination of anti-spam channels.
To promote the control of spam SMS, the administration published a notice about the special campaign, and this campaign will last until [...]

Nokia's distributors have submitted a report to China's National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration for Industry and Commerce which alleges how Nokia has been involved in tax evasion and tax fraud in China.
Liu Youming, a representative from Nokia's distributors, told Chinese media that the distributors had sent a legal [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has signed an investment plan with the government of Henan to invest CNY40 billion in 3G and broadband network construction in the province in the next five years.
Under the agreement, China Unicom will invest CNY40 billion in information communication infrastructure construction in Henan, including 3G network construction, broadband network coverage [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced plans to invest CNY20 million in Guangxi in the next three years to realize TD-SCDMA network coverage in all prefecture-level cities in the region.
China Mobile revealed that its investment in 2009 will be over CNY5 billion.
Under the cooperative framework agreement signed by China Mobile and the government of [...]

In response to media reports this week which stated China Unicom has signed an agreement with Apple to introduce Apple's iPhone into China, a spokesperson from China Unicom says "no comment at the current stage".
However, according to a China Unicom insider quoted by local media, the two companies' negotiation about the introduction of iPhone has [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has announced that after launching online enquiry and payment functions for mobile phone users across China, the company has now opened a fixed line payment function that is available in 10 northern Chinese cities and provinces, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong, Shanxi, … Read More>>

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has won tenders with China Telecom to develop business intelligence systems for China Telecom's Beijing, Henan and Heilongjiang subsidiaries.

According to the report on the governing of the charges of telecommunications service providers released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on August 5, 2008, four service providers were suspended, pending rectification, in the second quarter of 2008.

China Unicom Henan branch introduced the progress of its GSM network expansion in a press conference held in Zhengzhou and announced plans to invest another CNY3 billion to improve its GSM network.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has signed a contract with Henan Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, to develop its Business Operation Support Systems.