Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with the Japanese communication giant NTT DoCoMo, regarding LTE-PF, a mobile terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution. Upon the completion of the LTE-PF licensing agreement, MediaTek plans to integrate this LTE technology with its 2G and 3G technologies to provide [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has set up a long-term development lab in Tokyo, Japan.
The lab will not only be used as a research and development center for LTE technologies, but also will provide testing and training facilities for the implementation and commercialization of the next-generation wireless technologies.
In addition, [...]

CPCNet Hong Kong Limited has started working with Vietnam Datacommunication Company to establish a virtual private network in Vietnam, with the first POP ready for operations in Ho Chi Minh city this July.
"This partnership fulfills our mission to be a preferred partner by multinational corporations and certainly helps extend our reach to a new group [...]

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.

According to Ihab Ghattas, assistant president of Huawei Middle East, the Chinese telecommunications equipment and solutions provider plans to launch its first LTE/SAE commercial network in June 2009, providing LTE/SAE infrastructure to mobile operators.

A bilateral roaming agreement will provide Japan's NTT roaming subscribers trial access to over 900 Wi-Fi hotspots managed by China Mobile in six Olympic cities.

OKI has bought out its partner's share of Changzhou OKI-GEG Telecoms Ltd, a joint company established in 1997 by OKI and Jiangsu Guoguang Electronic Information Technology.