Taipei has now reportedly opened free-of-charge Wi-Fi services, and the number of users has already reached 1.8 million. Taipei reportedly launched free Wi-Fi services in some special venues in July 2011, and it now opened about 540 access points in outdoor public places as well as access points on about 500 buses, offering free-of-charge Wi-Fi [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has published its financial results for the first half of 2011, stating that its sales increased by 11% year-on-year to CNY98.3 billion; and its operating profit reached CNY12.4 billion. Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, said that during the first half of 2011, Huawei's business maintained stable growth and [...]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that UQ Communications, the mobile WiMAX license holder in Japan, has started deploying the WiMAX Pico base stations developed by ZTE in collaboration with Hitachi. The initial scale of this project will be over 1,200 base stations and the WiMAX Pico base stations will gradually enter commercial [...]

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 [...]

China Mobile and Taiwanese Far Eastone Telecommunications have reportedly signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly construct a TD-LTE trial network and promote the development of TD-LTE technologies.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, executives from Far Eastone stated that the company will provide the telecom operating platform, equipment, and services to become a bridge between [...]

Taiwan's WiMAX operator Tatung InfoComm is planning to set up an operator interoperability testing laboratory in cooperation with local government-sponsored groups and related organizations.
According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Lin Dongliang, general manager for Tatung InfoComm, said although most WiMAX devices are made in Taiwan, these devices have to be sent to a WiMAX [...]

Key Insights Into Wimax Deployment And Post Roll-out Strategies Are On Schedule At The Vietnam Mobile & Broadband International Summit 2010
Hanoi, Vietnam (January 18, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mobile phone usage in Vietnam is big and getting bigger. From pre-teens to over-60s, it seems everyone in Vietnam has a mobile phone, or even two. In [...]

Jamaican mobile telecommunications operator Digicel Jamaica has signed a contract with the Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE to buy its full turn-key solution for the first phase deployment of a 2.5GHz mobile WiMAX network.
This is reportedly a part of Digicel Jamaica's USD22.7 billion investment project.
Under the agreement, ZTE will install a nationwide network that will [...]

United States WiMax network operator Clearwire has announced that it has selected the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies as its WiMAX network infrastructure provider.
Under the agreement signed between the two parties, Huawei will provide WiMAX wireless access network equipment to Clearwire to aid its deployment of nationwide super-fast mobile Internet services. The WiMax infrastructure [...]

Huawei Technologies has announced that it is cooperating with Intel to build a WiMAX interoperability testing laboratory in Beijing.
Zhao Ming, president for Huawei's CDMA and WiMAX product line, says that the company is glad to play an active role in this cooperation. With the cooperation with Intel in the development of this advanced test laboratory [...]

The Chinese telecom equipment giant ZTE has signed an exclusive contract with the Mauritanian telecom operator Chinguitel to build the first 2.5 GHz mobile WiMAX commercial network in the country, which is also the first major WiMAX commercial network across the entire African continent.

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.

China Mobile (CHL) has signed a wireless cooperation memo with the Xiamen Municipal Government to build a wireless city.

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.