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 [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, China Unicom and Taiwan Mobile have jointly launched a roaming preferential policy to free travelers between the mainland and Taiwan from high roaming fees.
With the policy, Taiwanese mobile phone users who travel to the Chinese mainland cities only need to pay the mobile communications fee at the local [...]

The joint construction and sharing of Shanghai's telecom infrastructures has played an important role in the city's major projects, including the World Expo site, Hongqiao traffic hub, and Lingang new city, and the three major Chinese telecom operators claim to have realized full joint construction and sharing of mobile base stations for the 2010 Shanghai [...]

China Mobile's Beijing branch and the Beijing-based hypermarket retailer Wumart Stores have signed a strategicmore….

BesTV New Media, Shanghai Media Group's new media subsidiary, and Orange, France Telecom's mobile and [...]

China Telecom Beijing has announced that its six business halls have started to sell tickets for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
The six business halls are located at Chaoyangmen, Sanyuanqiao, Guangqumen, Xizhimen, Xuezhiqiao, and Maliandao, where World Expo special seats are set for the sales of tickets. At the same time, China Telecom Beijing provides counterfeit [...]

China Unicom has signed a framework agreement with the municipal government of Shanghai to implement an extensive in-depth strategic cooperation in the information sector.
Under the agreement, China Unicom will take Shanghai as its major strategic partner and a key area for business development. The company will invest CNY20 billion in Shanghai in the next three [...]

China Mobile Shanghai branch said it will add six new service languages in addition to the current English and Japanese languages of its foreign language call center before the end of 2009.
The six languages will be German, Spanish, Arabic, French, Korean, and Cantonese.
As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo draws near, more and more foreign technicians, [...]

According to an insider from China Mobile, the company will deploy its first TD-LTE trial network in Shanghai and will bring it into trial operation during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
This is also China Mobile's first 4G commercial trial network.
With coverage of 15 hectares, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Site has many permanent buildings, including [...]