Alcatel (ALA) has signed deals with Shanxi Mobile worth Euro 24 million for telecommunications expansion in the Chinese province.

Chen Wei from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has disclosed that China is pressing on making an RFID national standard to serve the forecasted RMB5.97 billion market for this year.

Advanced ID Corporation announced that it is making its DataTRACTM, UHF / RFID Livestock – Poultry Traceability product available on an aggressive international basis.

Guangzhou Radio and Television Network Company has selected NDS VideoGuard conditional access for the launch and transition of the company's digital cable TV services from analog for its subscribers in Guangzhou.

China's mobile service provider China Mobile (CHL) is testing a mobile email service and discussing fees related to this service.

China Mobile is using Spirent's (SPM) Landslide Performance Analysis System to test 3G Packet Core Network equipment, including Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN) and GPRS Gateway Support Nodes (GGSN).

Asia Netcom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Netcom (CN), has completed a major network upgrade that will bring a 50% increase in lit capacity to its pan-Asia submarine cable systems, EAC.

UTStarcom (UTSI) announced that on March 20, 2006, it received a notice from Nasdaq indicating that the company is not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 4310(c) (14) because it has not yet filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005.

China Mobile (CHL) and Feituo Wuxian Technology Company will cooperate to provide a mobile phone based advertising service for China's domestic enterprises.

In response to the frequent loss of users' ADSL accounts through phishing, Beijing Netcom has launched an educational campaign to prevent further loss of ADSL accounts.

Xiamen Unicom has worked out several measures in an effort to block the illegal sending of wireless short messages.

Sichuan Telecom is deploying Riverstone's 15008 and RS 3100 routers to upgrade its existing metro Ethernet network in Luzhou prefecture, Sichuan province.

RFID is booming in China, and nobody knows this better than Edward Zeng, who is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of both Sparkice, a leader in BtoB Global Commerce; and Sparkice Lab, China's leading Visibility Service Provider powered by RFID.

Local Chinese media report that the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) is likely to work out a measure to reduce the high mobile phone calling fees that have been the root of many complaints from Beijing consumers.

Beijing Capital International Airport is planning an RFID system for outbound luggage transport and security checks to improve its luggage freight efficiency and accuracy.

China Mobile's (CHL) 2005 annual financial results were reported today and show an operating revenue of CNY243,041 million, representing an increase of 26.3% from previous year.

Motorola (MOT) has announced three new investments in China.

World's wireless solution provider Research in Motion (RIMM) is discussing with China Mobile about launching a BlackBerry service in the mainland market.

Xi Guohua, deputy minister from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), says that this year MII will actively urge telecom operators to provide a monthly calling log for consumers.

China Tietong says it will support consumers by offering double refunds for any erroneous charging.