Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that its operating revenue reached CNY82.11 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Of the total operating revenue, CNY41.05 billion was contributed by the mobile businesses, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%; while CNY40.11 billion was from the fixed [...]

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 [...]

Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE Corporation has published its interim results for the first half of 2010 ended June 30. During the first half of 2010, ZTE achieved operating revenue of CNY30.725 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.89%; its net profit was CNY877 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.02%; and its basic earnings per share [...]

Chinese mobile Internet company KongZhong Corporation today announced its unaudited second quarter 2010 financial results. Total revenues for the quarter increased 9% year-over-year to USD35.3 million and total gross margin was 48% in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 44% from the previous quarter in 2010. Net income was USD2.6 million, and KongZhong [...]

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has decided the final retail price of CNY999 for its electronic reader product Bambook, and a new reservation system has been launched for the marketing of this new product. Bambook will be officially launched on September 28, 2010, with an updated software version. Prior to this, the product was put into the [...]

China Mobile Limited announced today that its chief executive officer has been replaced. Effective today, Wang Jianzhou has ceased to be the CEO, but he remains executive director and chairman of the telecommunications firm Li Yue, executive director and vice president of the company, has been re-designated as executive director and CEO of China Mobile. [...]

Chinese online game firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited announced that it has completed its business swap with Ku6 Media Company Limited. The companies entered into the transaction on June 1, 2010. Ku6 has now acquired 75% of an online audio business from Shanda in exchange for 415,384,615 newly issued ordinary shares of Ku6, and it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A representative from Unicom Vsens, the terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, has confirmed to the local media that China Unicom will launch the 8G iPhone 3GS handset with a Wi-Fi feature in China on August 9, 2010. The new product will reportedly be sold with a 24-month contract at the price of CNY4,999. The introduction [...]

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, and stated net revenues grew 10% year over year. Sina reported net revenues of USD99.4 million, compared to USD90.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising revenues for the second quarter of 2010 were USD73.1 [...]

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 services company Sohu.com Inc. today reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. Total revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010 were USD146.1 million, up 15% year-over-year and 13% quarter-over-quarter. Of that total, brand advertising revenues totaled USD53.2 million, up 22% year-over-year and 35% quarter-over-quarter, and online [...]

According to statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of May 2010, the number of China's 3G users had reached 21.9 million, an increase of 8.642 million compared with the end of 2009. In addition, China's 3G networks added 2.3 million new users in May 2010, an increase of [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has launched a new international roaming customer service hotline for its users who travel overseas. If China Unicom's mobile users cannot access the local networks normally or their mobile phones cannot be used normally when traveling to another country, they can dial China Unicom's new international roaming customer service hotlines [...]

News apparently from Datang reveals that the Chinese government has decided to merge the two stated-owned telecom equipment makers, Datang Telecom and Potevio, before the end of 2010. According to a report on the English-language website of China Daily, upon the completion of the merger, the new company will become the third largest telecom equipment [...]

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 [...]

The European Union has launched anti-dumping investigation against Chinese-made wireless wide area networking modems. In a case valued at USD4.1 billion, the official website of the Ministry of Commerce of China, states this case may harm interactions between Europe and China. A representative from the ministry told local media that this is the first time [...]