Representatives of Qinghai Mobile and Tibet Mobile say that after the second phase of construction, GSM will cover more than 95% of the entire Qinghai-Tibet railway and passengers and residents along the railway will be able to enjoy the great convenience brought by this advanced technology.

Following Shanghai Media Group and CCTV's acquistion of mobile phone TV licenses, another two radio broadcasting institutions in China, China Radio International and CNR, are expected to officially receive their licenses soon.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has issued a circular, requiring that domestic telecommunications companies not rent, transfer or sell telecom service operation permits to foreign investors.

Motorola (MOT) and Huawei have jointly announced a new cooperation to provide more powerful and complete UMTS solutions and HSPA solutions to clients around the world.

China Mobile (CHL) has published the names of three new companies that will be punished because of failure to comply with telecom directives.

IP and MPLS network provider Caspian announced that China Tietong has deployed Caspian A120 Media Controllers in its high speed network backbone.

Nokia (NOK) has won a GSM core network contract with Hunan Mobile to supply its MSC Server mobile softswitch for four cities in Hunan Province.

At the same time as companies like KongZhong (KONG) and Linktone (LTON) have seen their stock prices plummet, business information provider Analysys says China Mobile and China Unicom's new polices on mobile value-added service subscription will have a more positive impact than negative impact on the sector.

China Mobile (CHL) has just released its wireless music strategy and launched a wireless music club M.Music.

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the regulator in China's telecom sector, has published a list of 102 companies that have engaged in illegal operation of wireless value-added services.

Jiangsu Telecom has launched a collect call service called 11803. The new service is available to both fixed phone and Little Smart users.

Lucent (LU) will provide its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) platform to Hong Kong's New World Telecommunications, enabling the telco to create and deliver simple, seamless, secure, portable, personal multimedia services for their subscribers over its optical IP network to different types of end user devices.

Following its competitor China Mobile (CHL), China Unicom (CHU) has announced the launch of its own mobile phone advertisement service.

Shandong Netcom and Shanxi Netcom, two subsidiaries of China Netcom (CN), have selected Alcatel's (ALA) IP solution to expand and optimize their metropolitan networks across the Shandong and Shanxi provinces and broaden their IP-based data service portfolio.

Hong Kong's SmarTone-Vodafone will be using Intervoice (INTV) Media Exchange to upgrade and expand the company's existing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Portal.

UTStarcom (UTSI) has signed a follow-on contract to deploy its RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution to China Telecom (CHA), the largest fixed-line telecom operator in China.

Nokia (NOK) China says that it is talking with China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and plans to test mobile phone television technology DVB-H next year and put it into commercial use by 2008.

Nokia (NOK) and Henan Mobile have signed a deal worth US$150 million to expand GSM and GPRS networks in Henan province.

China Telecom (CHA) has selected the Cisco (CSCO) Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network architecture as the foundation of its 2006 ChinaNet network expansion and has named Cisco as the primary equipment provider for the project.

picoChip has signed a development partnership agreement with China GrenTech.