Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has launched a worldwide design contest for its Wuhan research and development center, in which the company will invest CNY5 billion, and the construction for this new R&D center will formally start in 2012. According to Huawei, the company will establish the Wuhan base as its main location. Located at [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has signed cooperating agreements with five mobile phone retail channel providers in Guangdong. The five mobile phone retail chain enterprises include Shenzhen Hengbo, Guangdong Dadi, Dongguan Jietong, Guangdong Junhe, and Guangdong Longyue. This is reportedly the first time for China Unicom to sign comprehensive strategic cooperating agreements with regional mobile [...]

During the recent "TD-SCDMA Innovation Festival", Lv Yan, CEO and president of Lenovo Mobile andmore….

Having already fed the Chinese market for over 20 years, the international fast food giant [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced the launch of its 2009 recruitment drive.
The company published the recruitment program on its official website and states it will offer dozens of jobs, covering research and development, technology services, finance, economics, supply chain management, and legal. In addition, the company is reportedly placing recruitment information on [...]

Sun Danyong, a 25-year old employee in Shenzhen of Foxconn, the manufacturer for Apple's iPhone, has committed suicide reportedly over mistreatment he received after a iPhone prototype was lost.
According to local Chinese media, Sun, who had been handling a shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes, was investigated by Foxconn's Central Security Division after one of the [...]

European leading communication service provider Deutsche Telekom has announced plans to set up a Shenzhen branch, which is reportedly the company's fourth branch in China.
Michael Hagspihl, senior vice president of Deutsche Telekom, told local media that the reasons for the company to open its new branch in Shenzhen is because it makes Deutsche Telekom closer [...]

China Mobile says its TD-SCDMA networks in 10 Chinese cities have covered 95% of the areas covered by 2G networks, of which, the TD-SCDMA signal has covered all areas within the fifth ring road area of Beijing.
In addition, some large communities and counties outside the fifth ring, including Shangdi and Huilongguan, can receive the TD-SCDMA [...]

Wireless broadband firm ChinaTel Group Inc. says it will deploy a high speed wireless broadband telecommunications network across 29 cities in China by the end of this year.
"Full 3.5GHz wireless broadband deployment will continue in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nanjing with the first phase of the build out to be operational by the end [...]

China Unicom's Shanghai branch has gained 100,000 mobile phone numbers with the 186 prefix for its WCDMA business due to open commercially on May 17, 2009.
At the same time, China Unicom is promoting its network construction in accordance with its plan and will try to release the WCDMA mobile phone numbers in more cities on [...]

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has delivered the CDMA networks in 30 major Chinese cities, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Suzhou, Ningbo, Tianjin and Urumqi, to China Telecom.

China's State Council has announced that it approves China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to start the issuing of 3G licenses and it will continue to support the development and promotion of the Chinese-made TD-SCDMA wireless technology.

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 Unicom (CHU) has started the deployment of its WCDMA trial networks and it plans to set up the networks first in seven Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Shenzhen, Foshan, Liuzhou, Zhengzhou, Baoding and Wuxi.

Although the final result for its second-round TD-SCDMA tender has not come out yet, China Mobile (CHL) has now started its planning for the third-round TD-SCDMA deployment and the company will reportedly set up TD-SCDMA networks in 162 Chinese cities.

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced at an industry seminar held in Shanghai that the Shanghai-based TA Technology has become its newest Authorized Test Laboratory, marking the birth of the alliance's thirteenth Wi-Fi test lab around the world.

Advanced ID's Hong Kong subsidiary, Advanced ID Asia Pacific, says it will acquire Shenzhen DDCT Technology, which specializes in development, production, and sales of RFID/UHF hardware, including UHF readers, and antenna tags throughout Asia.

According to telecommunications management departments, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China plans to start a mobile phone number portability trial in Tianjin and Shenzhen from October 2008.

According to Guangdong Information Industry Department, Guangdong is planning the first wireless city group in China and people in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Dongguan might soon by able to surf the Internet with a unified wireless network.