PacificNet (PACT.PK), a CRM and value-added telecom services company in China, announced that its subsidiary PacificNet YueShen Shandong Branch has signed a partnership agreement to become a designated distributor of China Netcom (CN).

In order to strengthen the economic integration between mainland China and Macao SAR, the Chinese government has approved China Unicom to acquire 49% of of Companhia de Telecomunicacoes de Macau, the largest telecom in the region.

The new SMS Inter-link Settlement Agreement has finally been signed by China Netcom, China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile. This new agreement will soon enable normal GSM phone users to send short messages (SMS) to Little Smart phone users.

China Telecom in Guangdong is testing an instant messaging product called Kao Mi (pinyin for "Call Me") across the province and intends to soon popularize the product nationwide.

Vyyo (VYYO) and China Mobile have signed a deal to implement Vyyo's solution for cellular and Wi-Fi backhaul in eight cities in the Jiangsu province.

China Netcom and China Railcom have each launched their own "All-in-One Number" services in Beijing.

Sunday Communications (SDAY) has increased its 3G supply contract and expanded and improved its financing facilities with Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies (Huawei), hoping to ensure a smooth launch of its 3G service in 2005.

Continuous Computing, global provider of high availability platform solutions that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy converged communications, announced that Datang Mobile has selected Trillium SS7 and ATM offerings from Continuous Computing as essential elements to deliver TD-SCDMA Radio Network Solutions into the Chinese market.

ZTE revealed its new technologies in CDMA and WCDMA at the 3G World Congress & Exhibition in Hong Kong. Supporting both voice and data at the same time, and offering wireless packet data services, ZTE's new solution "1xEV-DO+1x Release A" is the optimized 3G CDMA2000 system that is expected to … Read More>>

China Netcom (CN), the last of China's four major telecoms to list overseas, saw a good first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and it will attempt to copy that success today as its shares open in Hong Kong. In New York, shares skyrocketed to $26, from … Read More>>

Juniper Networks (JNPR) today announced it has been awarded the largest share of the contract for China Telecom's next-generation backbone network.

China-based Huawei Technologies has won a series of contracts which amount to over US$400 million from main-stream telecom operators from Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria in Africa. The cooperation covers a wide scope of Huawei products and solutions including 3G, NGN, optical transmission, switches, routers and Intelligent Network.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) announced that it has been selected by China Telecom as the primary equipment provider for the business network portion of the China Telecom Internet Protocol (IP) Next-Generation Network (CN2). CN2 will connect more than 200 cities and provide premium services to corporate customers nationwide.

China Unicom will be consolidating and re-aligning China's telecom companies. For the proposed merger, China Telecom will get China Unicom's GSM network and China Netcom will acquire China Unicom's CDMA services and network.

Shanxi Unicom has expanded Motorola's Canopy wireless broadband solution to supply quality data and voice transmission in four cities in Shanxi Province: Datong, Suzhou, Xingzhou and Taiyuen.

UTStarcom (NASDAQ: UTSI) announced that it has signed a contract valued at approximately $20 million with China Netcom Corporation (CNC) to expand CNC's existing IP-based PAS (Personal Access System) network in seven cities in Liaoning Province in northeast China.

SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings announced that it will start promoting the third generation mobile communications network service (3G) in Hong Kong starting in December 2004.

The top management of the three largest Chinese telecom operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom will be interchanged, starting today. The shuffling is expected to help reform China's telecommunications industry and also stop corrupt business practices from forming.