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Foxconn Hiring Additional 100,000 Employees For Zhengzhou iPhone Manufacturing

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:04:15 +0000

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 [...]

Coolpad Will Dump Chinese Mobile Phone Manufacturing Next Year

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000

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 May Axe 4,000 Employees In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:06:14 +0000

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 [...]

Are Chinese Companies Manufacturing More Mobile Phones?

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:58:26 +0000

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 [...]

ZTE To Produce Tablet Computer In Brazil In August 2011

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:13:44 +0000

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 [...]

Acer Appoints New President

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:56:43 +0000

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, [...]

Chinese Shanzhai Mobile Manufacturers Will Move Production To India

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:32:14 +0000

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 [...]

Rumor: Google Cancels gPhone Development Plan In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:29:02 +0000

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

India Starts To Block Chinese-made "Shanzai" Mobile Phones Without IMEI

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:02:53 +0000

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

iPhone What?? China Mobile Launches Ophone Handsets

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:49:10 +0000

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 [...]

Chinese Mobile Phones Lacking IMEI Numbers Face Death In India

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:02:45 +0000

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.

Mobile phone manufacturers in China have sold up to 25 million of their grey market phones in India, and those phones often ... Read More>>

China Mobile Eyes Roaming Service In Taiwan

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:51:03 +0000

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 [...]

Samsung Wins Big In China Telecom's First 3G Mobile Phone Tender

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:42:46 +0000

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 [...]

China Telecom To Unveil Second Round 3G Mobile Phone Tender

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:04:55 +0000

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 [...]

China's Huawei Enters Submarine Cable Market

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:01:51 +0000

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.

Huawei and Global Marine signed an agreement on December 11, 2007 to set up the joint venture and company has already completed relevant registration and examination ... Read More>>

China Mobile Releases TD-SCDMA Tender Results

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:02:01 +0000

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.

The second round TD-SCDMA tender, with a scale 1.53 times that of the first round, involved ... Read More>>

ZTE Gains WiMAX Forum's Wave2 System Certification

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:00:35 +0000

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.

Prior to this, the company gained the WiMAX 16e terminal Wave2 certification issued by the same organization in August 2008. So far, ZTE has become the first ... Read More>>

China Telecom Begins IPTV STB Bidding

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:58 +0000

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.

Conducted while China Telecom's IPTV V2.0 platform is being tested, the bidding aims to further solve the mutual connection problems ... Read More>>

Illegal Mobile Phone Manufacturers Begin To Develop CDMA, TD Mobile Phones In China

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:30:22 +0000

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.

According to Chinese media, China's telecom industry restructuring will bring CNY400-600 billion in network construction opportunities. Meanwhile, it will offer chances for illegal mobile phone manufacturers, ... Read More>>