Haier Group has formally joined EPCglobal, giving a big push to implementation of wireless standards in China.

A survey conducted by Beijing Zhongguan Economic Survey Company shows that more than 80% of Chinese support mobile phone real name mechanisms, which may come out at the end of this year.

China's first National RFID Industrial Zone has formally opened in the Zhangjiang area of Shanghai.

China Unicom (CHU) says it is testing its own instant communications and messaging software and will formally launch it in the next few months.

Shanghai Telecom and Shanghai Mobile have signed a cooperation with Shanghai Information Commission to invest a total of CNY40 billion in the coming four years to help promote informationization development.

The Beijing Municipal Statistical Bureau says that the price of Beijing's telecom products in the third quarter of this year dropped by 9.7% compared with the same period of last year.

Mobile messaging firm Mobile 365 says both China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo have chosen it to provide International Short Message Service (ISMS), broadening their reach to the world.

One year after the launching its CDMA roaming service in Macao, China Unicom (CHU) has now formally opened CDMA service in the region.

Proxim Wireless Corporation announced that China Netcom Gansu has selected Proxim Wireless WiMAX, mesh, and backhaul products as part of its effort to build the most cost-effective wireless data and voice network in the country.

Hong Kong International Airport will be using Intermec's Gen2 RFID tags to monitor baggage flow.

Satisfied with the progress made on the development of TD-SCDMA, China's National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Information Industry have decided to spend CNY500 million in support of further scaled tests that were initiated in February 2006.

China Telecom, Guangdong Telecom and Zhejiang Telecom have jointly set up a new company called China Communications Service Holdings Company, captialized at CNY3.96 billion.

In order to strengthen the tracking of food sources and to guarantee food safety, the Hong Kong SAR Government plans to hold talks with the mainland authorities to adopt RFID technology to track the food and animals supplied from the mainland.

An official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has said that the cost of all communications like fixed-line telephones, mobile phones and Internet must be made affordable to farmers and rural residents.

Shanghai Telecom will use new metro networking technology from Nortel (NT) to provide high-bandwidth, business-critical voice, data and video applications to its customers in Shanghai.

Asia Netcom and NEC have signed an agreement to double the capacity on the southern segment of its Pan-Asian submarine cable system, EAC.

Wang Lijian, a representative from China's Ministry of Information Industry, has told local media that rules related to the mobile phone real name system are expected to come out within this year.

National Australia Bank has increased its stake in China Telecom (CHA) from 4.79% to 5.15% with an additional investment of CNY142 million.

The National High-Tech Research and Development Plan, also known as the 863 Plan recently released by China's Ministry of Science and Technology, has detailed 20 major RFID programs that the national government will allocate RMB128 million in support of these programs.

PacificNet (PACT.PK) has taken another step in its strategy of capturing market opportunities with the impending launch of 3G in China.