Apple's latest smartphone product iPhone 4S will start retail sales in Hong Kong on November 11, 2011. Apart from Hong Kong, there are another 14 countries and regions which will become the second batch to introduce iPhone 4S, including South Korea, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal [...]

South Korean conglomerate company LG will reportedly close the mobile phone research and development department in LG Electronics China R&D Center in Beijing and cut half of the staff in the department. According to reports in Chinese local media, the company said it hopes to minimize the number of layoff workers by further internal staffing. [...]

Nokia has confirmed that Liang Yumei, senior vice president for Greater China, South Korea and Japan, departed Nokia on June 1, 2011. It is understood that the candidate to succeed Liang has not been determined; however, the business previously operated by Liang will be temporarily taken over by Colin Giles, Nokia's global head of sales. [...]

Telecom operators from China, South Korea, and Japan have signed a strategic agreement to reduce the international data roaming fees among the three countries from March 2011. According to reports in South Korean local media, China Mobile, South Korea's KT, and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have signed the strategic framework agreement at China Mobile's headquarters. The [...]

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority reports that a study released by the Asia Pacific Carriers' Coalition shows Hong Kong provides the most economical local broadband access services in the Asia Pacific region.
The prices of broadband leased lines in Hong Kong at transmission speed of 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 45 Mbps and 155 Mbps [...]

South Korean telecom operator KT has announced plans to acquire 25% stake in Omnitel China, [...]

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 China Unicom (CHU), the company finished its upgrade from GSM to GPRS in the 31 cities and provinces across China by the end of June 2008 and all of its pre-paid and post-paid users are now able to enjoy the GPRS services.

China Unicom (CHU) says it has launched CDMA international data roaming services for Chinese travelers visiting South Korea.