According to Cctime.com, a Chinese communications industry portal, 30 Chinese mobile service providers, including Hurray and Sohu, have been punished for various irregular operations in recent weeks in Shandong.
The website reported that these 30 service providers are involved in irregular service billing, fake promotions, irregular operation of short message order services, non-standard pricing, and confusing [...]

In response to previous media reports that Chinese telecom operators will terminate mobile phone numbers [...]

To coordinate with the special campaign jointly launched by China's nine government departments to fight [...]

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's latest list of 125 recommended communications industry standards [...]

UTStarcom has entered into an agreement with United States government agencies, agreeing to pay a [...]

Following rumors and allegations of improprieties, Zhang Chunjiang has been removed from his positions at [...]

One of China Mobile's top executives is being investigated for "suspected serious personal violations" by [...]

It takes guts to be the first to admit a failure, and Chinese wireless value-added [...]

Companies operating in Beijing the past few weeks already know that life has been a hassle as the city prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of China. Businesses have been ordered closed on certain days, main thoroughfares have shuttered, and public transportation along some bus and subway lines has stopped. Now certain radio transmissions are [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a draft of its "Management Regulations for the Security and Oversight of Communications Networks", aiming to enhance security of public communications networks and the Internet.
Under the new regulations, public communications and Internet networks managed by Chinese telecom operators and Internet domain name service providers should meet [...]

Proving how risky any type of seemly innocuous business in China can be, Jinan Yinquan Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc., states its business has been impacted with a temporary block of VoIP services after the recent riots in northwestern China.
As a result of the political riot on July 5 [...]

China Mobile has exposed 25 websites that reportedly provided false Fetion services to Chinese wireless users.
According to news on Sohu.com, China Mobile reminded users of the Fetion service that it would not make offers to users that they could win prizes by responding to wireless messages. Unfortunately, users have been duped into providing private information [...]

Adding another layer of confusion to Apple's iPhone entry to China, a Chinese company is claiming that it owns the trademark rights for the iPhone smartphone.
According to Wang Hao, general manager for Beijing-based BSFD Intellectual Property Agency Limited, Apple's iPhone can not enter the Chinese market, because Hanwang Technology previously registered the "i-phone" trademark, and [...]

According to Guangdong Communications Administration, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Council Information Office are jointly formulating regulations on mobile phone real-name registration system and the regulations are waiting for the approval of the State Council.
Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department said that by the end of [...]

Beijing No. 1 Secondary People's Court has accepted two lawsuits filed against Datang Telecom Technology Company Ltd.
One of the cases, according to a report from Chinanews.com.cn, is about a shareholder suing Datang Telecom over false statements, and the other is an accusation against Datang executive Pan Shenhai for internal trading.
In the first case, an investor [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has issued a statement that the regulatory guidance on fixed-mobile interconnection charge in favor of the mobile party's network pay model will be withdrawn as planned today when the two-year transition period ends.
The interconnection charge for fixed-mobile interconnection will thereafter be settled among fixed and mobile operators by [...]

The case in which Shi Yuchen, the user of the Chinese personal access system known as Little Smart, sued China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has been rejected by the court in Beijing.
Shi told local media that on February 24, 2009, he sued the MIIT at the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court, because MIIT [...]