Beijing, China (September 25, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The 2009-2010 China Hotel Industry Summit and Best Business, Resorts, Newly Opened Hotel Award ceremony took place at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on 6 August 2010. At the ceremony, Traders Upper East Hotel, Beijing was named one of the “Ten Best Newly Opened Hotels in [...]

Responding to complaints from mobile phone consumers in Hong Kong about hidden telecommunications fees and high bills, Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has taken action. OFTA has published measures that have been implemented by individual mobile operators to prevent what it calls "mobile bill shock". These measures include allowing customers to opt-out of [...]

China Wireless, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Chinese mobile phone maker Yulong Coolpad, has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of HKD2.102 billion, a year-on-year increase of 193.8%; and it achieved net profit of HKD272 million, a year-on-year increase of 740.4%. China [...]

The U.S. electronics products maker Apple has started the sales of its iPad tablet computers in Hong Kong. According to Apple's Hong Kong official website, the new iPads launched in Hong Kong have Wi-Fi and 3G versions, and their capacities are 16G, 32G, and 64G, respectively. The retail price for a 16G Wi-Fi version iPad [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has launched a new international roaming customer service hotline for its users who travel overseas. If China Unicom's mobile users cannot access the local networks normally or their mobile phones cannot be used normally when traveling to another country, they can dial China Unicom's new international roaming customer service hotlines [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority reports that a study released by the Asia Pacific Carriers' Coalition shows Hong Kong provides the most economical local broadband access services in the Asia Pacific region.
The prices of broadband leased lines in Hong Kong at transmission speed of 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 45 Mbps and 155 Mbps [...]

Beijing, China (April 13, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — LehmanBrown International Accountants today kicked off its 2010 Graduate Recruitment Program with a series of Campus Recruitment Talks, held in-conjunction with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of the largest professional accounting bodies in the world. The Graduate Recruitment Program is run nationwide with [...]

Days after announcing a drop in mobile revenue for last year, Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. has now announced a new acquisition of a Singapore company.
Linktone announced that it together with its major shareholder, PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk, have completed the acquisition of 75% of the share capital of InnoForm Group. InnoForm [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has gained a new GPON FTTH commercial project contract from Wharf T&T, the second largest business fixed line operator in Hong Kong.
Competing with several overseas peers, Huawei won the GPON FTTH project with leading program designs and product technologies. Its advanced and stable network [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority this week issued a new code of practicemore….

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

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission have jointly [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has accredited four local certification bodies to provide a full range of equipment testing and certification services on a non-exclusive basis.
The first batch of four LCBs accredited to provide testing and certification services are Hong Kong Standards and Testing Centre Limited, Intertek Testing Services Hong Kong Limited, SGS [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Guangdong Communications Administration have signed a memorandum of understanding on the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement to allow Hong Kong service suppliers to distribute fixed-line and mobile telephone cards in Guangdong province, but for use in [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced that starting from October 1, 2009, users of China Telecom's three eSurfing packages will be free from charges of incoming calls in mainland China, with exceptions of calls from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau.
According to China Telecom, the three packages include "My e-Home", "BizNavigator", and "eSurfing Business Trip". [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority states that a mobile virtual network operator, Trident Telecom Ventures Limited, had notified OFTA that it relinquished its license to OFTA.
MVNO services of Trident have been suspended since December 1, 2008, when its service agreement with its hosting mobile network operator was terminated because of a contractual dispute. [...]

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a contract with the Turkish telecom operator Turkcell to build a universal mobile telecommunication system network for Byelorussian Telecommunication Network, the operator's subsidiary in Belarus.
This is another achievement for ZTE's UMTS network in the European market, following its successful entry into Estonia, Romania, and Turkey.
Under the contract, [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has decided to allow telecommunications operators to provide a fixed mobile number portability service on a voluntary basis.
To gauge the market demand for the FMNP service before deciding whether to introduce the service , the OFTA commissioned an independent consultant to conduct a market survey in early 2008. [...]

European leading communication service provider Deutsche Telekom has announced plans to set up a Shenzhen branch, which is reportedly the company's fourth branch in China.
Michael Hagspihl, senior vice president of Deutsche Telekom, told local media that the reasons for the company to open its new branch in Shenzhen is because it makes Deutsche Telekom closer [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced that three mobile network operators have successfully bid for a total of 9.6 MHz of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz frequency band at a total of upfront spectrum utilization fee of HKD46.1 million.
Three incumbent mobile network operators took part in the spectrum auction. Conducted on an [...]