France-based 4G chipmaker Sequans has opened a new office in Shanghai. Sequans said it established the local presence to better serve its Chinese customers and to more readily respond to the company's rapidly growing business demands in China. Concurrently, Sequans announced the appointment of Alex Shang to the position of China country manager. Shang has [...]

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 [...]

Mats H Olsson, Ericsson's head of China and Northeast Asia, said during the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held in Shanghai from May 17 to May 18, 2010, that Ericsson has decided not to enter the Chinese CDMA equipment market again.
Early in 2005, Ericsson announced that in would gradually withdraw from the CDMA market. However, in [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks' new TD-LTE open lab has been set up in its research and development base in Hangzhou.
Its nationwide road show in China was launched at the same time last month to lay a foundation for the large-scale commercial use of its technology.
Nokia Siemens Networks' open lab will provide an end-to-end testing environment for [...]

China Mobile and Taiwanese Far Eastone Telecommunications have reportedly signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly construct a TD-LTE trial network and promote the development of TD-LTE technologies.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, executives from Far Eastone stated that the company will provide the telecom operating platform, equipment, and services to become a bridge between [...]

Based on its commitment to deploy commercial wireless services based on Long-Term Evolution, China Telecom has now been granted membership in the GSM Association.
According to the GSMA, China Telecom will begin the commercial deployment of LTE as early as 2010.
LTE was developed to enable a significant increase in the bandwidth achievable over mobile networks, while [...]

Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei, revealed in a new year's greeting letter to employees that [...]

China Mobile Guangxi, a subsidiary of China Mobile, has just released a corporate social responsibility report.
Different from the CSR reports of others which are usually released annually, China Mobile Guangxi's report is the first one that covers a total period of ten years (1999-2009). Obviously the company believes that it is better late than never [...]

China Mobile and HTC have signed a TD-SCDMA terminal cooperative memorandum in Taiwan to jointly develop 3G handsets.
Under the memorandum, the two parties will set up a long-term partnership and cooperation in technical research, product development, market research, and customer service.
According to Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of China Mobile, the cooperation between the two [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Alcatel-Lucent will soon deploy 3G WCDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces and municipalities.
China Unicom granted Alcatel-Lucent's Chinese subsidiary, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, this contract in which Alcatel-Lucent will provide about 11000 Node B base stations in Hebei, Fujian Guangxi, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Shandong and Xinjiang. The financial terms of [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has published its annual financial report for 2008, which states its net profit increased by 29.6% to CNY112.8 billion during the period.
The report also reveals China Mobile's total revenue increased by 15.5% year-on-year to CNY412.343 billion; its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were CNY216.487 billion, a year-on-year increase [...]

Even though it already declared bankruptcy in Canada, Nortel is still working hard on expanding its business within China, and the company just unveiled details of its LTE TDD 4G tests.
Nortel has successfully completed the first end-to-end video streaming session using a TDD-based LTE network, working with commercial grade LTE base station and device prototypes [...]

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has won a contract from TeliaSonera, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Nordic and Baltic regions, to deploy the world's first LTE commercial network in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

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.

News from the 2008 LTE Summit is that the three telecom operators in China have set up a total of 14772 TD base stations across the country.