Foxconn, the original equipment manufacturer for Apple products, is reportedly expanding its manufacturing capacity in 2012, aiming to increase production for iPhones and iPads to meet the ever-growing market demand. According to reports in Chinese local media, Foxconn is cooperating with the municipal government of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, to double the number of [...]

Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012. Instead, the company will try to focus only on smartphone manufacturing. Li told local media that Coolpad's mobile device shipments in the entire year of 2011 is [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees. This is reportedly the largest layoff in the history of Nokia Siemens. According to the company, it had about 74,000 employees worldwide by November 1, 2011, which means one out of [...]

From January to August 2011, China manufactured 699 million mobile phones, an increase of 19.3% from last year according to latest statistics released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The ministry said that during the first eight months of 2011, the production and sales within the Chinese communications device industry recovered rapidly. In [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has reached an agreement with Brazilian local enterprises to produce tablet computers in the country. The news was disclosed by Hou Weigui, president of ZTE, while meeting with Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil. Hou told local media that ZTE has established close cooperation relationships with Brazilian [...]

Taiwan-based PC maker Acer has appointed Jim Wong, former president for Acer's IT products group, as its new corporate president. Born in 1958, Wong holds a bachelor degree, majoring in mathematics from Soochow University in Taiwan, and an MBA from Emory University, Georgia, USA. Joining Acer in 1986, Wong has experience in sales, product marketing, [...]

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 [...]

According to reports in local media, Google has unilaterally canceled development of its gPhone with [...]

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

Days after news of rival China Unicom's non-exclusive iPhone deal with Apple, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile formally launched its Ophone platform and Ophone handsets today.
According to Wang Jianzhou, president of China Mobile, the Ophone platform is the first mobile Internet-oriented smart mobile terminal software platform that has been developed by a telecom operator. It [...]

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.

Chairman of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou says that the company is negotiating with three major Taiwanese telecommunications operators to launch a roaming service.
Wang told local media that China Mobile is currently discussing with Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile, and Far Eastone Telecommunications on future cooperative agreements. He said while attending the current CPPCC meeting last week [...]

China Telecom has signed contracts with seven mobile phone makers to purchase 3G CDMA2000 EVDO mobile phones from these companies, and Samsung has come out on top.
China Telecom's Vice President Yang Xiaowei and its two vice general managers for the terminal management center, Mao Daojie and Ma Wu, attended the signing ceremony for the winning [...]

According to Ma Daojie, vice general manager for China Telecom's mobile terminal subsidiary eSurfing, China Telecom will accelerate its purchase and sale of 3G mobile phones and the company will soon start its second round mobile phone tender.
Prior to this announcement, China Telecom launched its first round of CDMA mobile phone tenders of five million [...]

Huawei Marine Networks, a joint venture invested by Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems Limited, has started operation following an unveiling ceremony held in Tianjin.

China Mobile (CHL) has released the results for its second round TD-SCDMA tender, and Chinese manufacturer Datang is the largest winner with ZTE, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks also gaining significant chunks of the deal.

ZTE Corporation, China's leading telecom equipment manufacturer, has announced that its WiMAX 16e system gained the Wave2 qualification certification issued by the WiMAX Forum.

China Telecom (CHA) has initiated a unified bidding process for IPTV set-top box terminals to make preparation for implementing its new strategy following the acquisition of China Unicom's (CHU) CDMA network.

Illegal mobile phone manufacturers in China reportedly have a chance of developing CDMA and TD-SCDMA mobile phones as a result of China's telecom industry restructuring.