China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.
The word "shanzhai" or "shanzai", literally meaning "remote village" in Cantonese, has become a popular name for Chinese fakes and the slang now refers [...]

Max Yang, CEO for Huawei India, is quoted by media that the company plans to [...]

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

Nagpur, a city in central India, has started to cut the network access of some [...]

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 first terrestrial cable transmission system between China and India, jointly developed with India's Reliance Communications and China Telecom, has recently opened.
According to China Telecom, the completion of this terrestrial cable transmission system changes the current communication situation between the two countries. Prior to this, all communications between China and India needed to transit via [...]

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 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, [...]

Reports in foreign media state Norwegian telecom group Telenor plans to sell shares of its subsidiary in Pakistan and the group is talking with its Chinese counterpart China Mobile about this transaction.
Though both of the companies involved denied the rumor, media reports state a confidential negotiation is undergoing at the group level between the two [...]

According to reports in Indian local media, the India government has decided to set stricter quality limits to imported mobile phones, dairy products, and toys and these measures reportedly target China.
The reports quoted the director of the Foreign Trade Bureau of India by saying that from now on, mobile phones without International Mobile Equipment Identities [...]

UTStarcom China has disclosed to local media that the company will focus its human resources on key departments like sales, service and R&D and will retain about 2000 staff for major markets including China and India.
UTStarcom will take four major measures for this restructuring — business integration, service integration, market integration and resource integration — [...]

ZTE USA Inc., a subsidiary of China's ZTE Corporation, has unveiled its LTE strategy for the North American market with a Software Defined Radio platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months.
Dr. George Sun, CEO of ZTE USA, stated: "We anticipate widespread commercial adoption of LTE in the North American [...]

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.

Hong Kong's Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, which has 60 hotels throughout China and around the world, says the global financial crisis has pushed it to now offer all guests free Internet services.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has has gained a USD400 GSM network infrastructure project in India, marking another major breakthrough of ZTE in the Indian market.

Hutchison Telecommunications announced its unaudited key performance indicators for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 and said consolidated profit attributable to equity holders of the company was HK$310 million for the quarter, compared with a loss of HK$236 million for the same period last year.