China Spacecom says it is planning to open an Iridium gateway earth station in 2007.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has signed contracts to upgrade the business and operation support systems of China Mobile's Jiangxi, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia subsidiaries.

Ericsson (ERIC) and Taiwan's Compal Communications have signed a license agreement for the U310 mobile platform, a triple-band WCDMA mobile platform from Ericsson Mobile Platforms.

Chinese media are reporting on a rumor that China Unicom (CHU) will sell its CDMA network for CNY70 billion to China Telecom (CHA), but the latter wants to slash the price to RM35 billion.

News from China Unicom (CHU) is that the company has signed a deal with Russia's TransTeleCom and the parties will jointly build an overland Sino-Europe optical cable with bandwidth of 10G bits.

The time period for bidding in China Mobile's (CHL) TD-SCDMA process is coming to an end.

Zhu Jun, deputy director of the Economic Adjustment and Communications Settlement Department of China's Ministry of Information Industry, says MII will try to lower the domestic roaming fee in 2007 by limiting the upper limit of the fee and listening to industry suggestions.

Investors in China Mobile (CHL) are happy as the company today posted its 2006 annual results and said net profit for 2006 rose 23.3% to CNY66 billion from CNY53.55 billion in 2005.

Hutchison Telecommunications (HTX) has announced record profit of HK$1.576 billion for the full year ended December 31, 2006.

A representative from local communications equipment supplier ZTE says that ZTE's entire set of TD-SCDMA equipment has successfully passed the tests of the Ministry of Information Industry and is one of the first vendors to be awarded China's TD-SCDMA network entry certificate.

China Unicom (CHU), which has tested WiMAX for about a year, has now formally initiated the scaled construction of its WiMAX network.

Today is International Consumer Rights Day, and fighting counterfeit goods has become a hot topic for the ongoing National People's Conference and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Guangdong Mobile has formally launched its "Appreciation to Guangdong" program, a series of activities including 15 minutes of free long-distance call service for each migrant worker in the province every weekend.

Savi Networks has announced an agreement on a project to extend the SaviTrak information service to facilities operated by Modern Terminals Limited, one of the leading container terminal operators in Asia.

China Telecom (CHA) and China Netcom (CN), the two fixed telecom service providers in China, have signed an agreement to limit competition between them.

RC Group, one of the world's RFID giants, has signed an agreement with Intel to jointly explore the RFID market in China's health care industry.

A representative from China Unicom (CHU) has disclosed to local media that China Unicom will formally launch GPRS service in no less than 50 cities across China at 'an appropriate time' this year.

Taiwan media reports that the mainland's telecom equipment supplier Huawei has entered a strategic partnership with local Taiwanese companies including Foxconn and D-Link.

Following a request from China's Ministry of Information Industry, China Consumers' Association and the National Telecom User Commission, the six telecom operators in China have made an open service pledge to Chinese consumers.

Besides Datang, Potevio, ZTE, and TD Tech, China Mobile (CHL) has just added four new manufacturers for its mega-investment TD-SCDMA equipping bidding.