Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed its tests in Tianjin and will start the trial operation of the mobile phone number portability service from October 2010. The mobile phone number portability service allows users of a telecom operator to change their mobile communication service providers and enjoy the services of the new [...]

Responding to complaints from mobile phone consumers in Hong Kong about hidden telecommunications fees and high bills, Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has taken action. OFTA has published measures that have been implemented by individual mobile operators to prevent what it calls "mobile bill shock". These measures include allowing customers to opt-out of [...]

China Wireless, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Chinese mobile phone maker Yulong Coolpad, has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of HKD2.102 billion, a year-on-year increase of 193.8%; and it achieved net profit of HKD272 million, a year-on-year increase of 740.4%. China [...]

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace. The company has released four HTC brands, including Tianxi and Tianyi based on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network, and Wildfire and Desire based on [...]

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has made a strategic minority equity investment in Aurora Feint Inc., an American mobile game developer. Jun Zhu, The9's chairman and CEO, stated: "We are confident of the prospect for this mobile platform and believe it will play an important role in the future development of global mobile internet. The [...]

A representative from the Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has revealed that the company has stored seven million 3G mobile phones, covering over 60 types of 20 brands, for the launch of a summer promotion to entice Chinese consumers to buy new phones.
China Telecom will reportedly start the large-scale promotion before August 31, 2010, collaborating [...]

Following India's recent block of Chinese-made shanzai mobile phones without an International Mobile Equipment Identity number in 2009, the Egyptian government has recently announced similar measures against these mobile phones.
The National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Egypt has approved a ban, stating that it will block anonymous users and Chinese-made mobile phones with the same IMEIs.
The [...]

The once-postponed mobile phone reading service of China Telecom will now reportedly be formally launched in late July 2010.
An insider revealed to the local media that the related departments of China Telecom have started planning and deploying resources for the launch of this new service and the company will set up a mobile reading base [...]

According to statistics on the official website of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's electronic manufacturing industry grew by 17.7% year-on-year in May 2010; and the output of mobile phones in the country increased by 36.7% year-on-year in the first five months of 2010.
From January to May 2010, the Chinese electronic manufacturing industry [...]

According to information from the Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning, starting from June 18, 2010, it will sell two types of Blackberry handsets on its nationwide retail network, marking Blackberry's entry into the Chinese consumer retail market.
Suning said that the company has signed a strategic agreement with Blackberry to become an exclusive home [...]

Chinese search engine Baidu.com and mobile phone software organization Symbian Foundation are working together to expand Baidu's "box computing" concept to wireless applications.
The two parties announced a strategic initiative where they will co-establish a joint laboratory to stimulate the development and launch of wireless "box computing" tightly integrated with the Symbian platform.
Box computing refers to [...]

According to Su Feng, vice president of the Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad, unlike its former high-end orientation, Coolpad will expand to now cover the entire high, medium, and low-end mobile phone markets in 2010. Therefore, the company plans to build at least 2,000 new self-owned sales channel sites this year to increase its overall [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.
Meanwhile, HTC will invest USD19.5 million in another mainland subsidiary, HTC Communications, for sales channel expansion. This move is reportedly a preparation for the sales of China [...]

Chinese lifestyle information and classifieds listings website Ganji.com has announced that it has gained joint investments of USD20 million from Nokia Growth Partners and BlueRun Ventures.
Yang Haoyong, founder and CEO of Ganji.com, told local media that the company will enhance the applications of its lifestyle information on the mobile Internet. No matter where the users [...]

The world's leading wireless platforms and semiconductors developer ST-Ericsson has launched a new platform in China to enable makers to make multi-function mobile phones with high-speed Internet performance.
The platform, which is known as T6718, combines a TD-HSPA mobile broadband modem with a rich feature set, and it delivers a rich Internet experience, including fast browsing, [...]

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published the performance statistics of China's communication industry for April 2010 on its official website, stating that the number of phone users showed a net increase of 8.497 million, reaching a total number of 1.094 billion.
MIIT said that from January to April 2010, China's telecom industry realized [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced that its establishment of a subsidiary in Taiwan, Zong Co., has been approved and it plans to use the subsidiary to invest in the Taiwanese telecom operator, Far Eastone Telecommunications.
China Mobile reportedly applied for the establishment of this wholly-owned subsidiary in Taiwan via a special purpose company in [...]

Lenovo and China Unicom have announced plans to launch Lenovo's new smartphone LePhone on May 17, 2010.
The market price for LePhone is reportedly at CNY2,899. However, the smartphone will not be sold as bare mobile phone and China Unicom has designed an exclusive contract program for LePhone. Consumers who want to buy LePhones can either [...]

China Telecom Beijing branch has announced the launch of a new Internet Data Center service platform with 3G applications to realize sending of contents, including IDC operating statistics, video monitoring information, and server security information to mobile phones of corporate users.
During the launch of the new platform, China Telecom Beijing introduced its IDC services which [...]