China Mobile (CHL) has begun to consult with TD mobile phone manufacturers and plans to initiate a bidding for TD-SCDMA mobile phones in November.

For the third quarter period ended September 30, 2007, AsiaInfo (ASIA) says total revenue was US$32.4 million, 17% higher than a year ago.

AsiaInfo Holdings (ASIA) has signed a contract with China Telecom to provide billing solutions for its ongoing extended TD-SCDMA trial.

Nokia Siemens Networks has won the contract for integrating both GSM-R and the world's leading tunnel technology along the Hefei-Nanjing railway line.

Guangdong Telecom has selected Nokia Siemens Networks [email protected] solution for its upcoming convergent charging needs.

The construction of the first Trans-Pacific Express between China and the United States has been formally started in Qingdao, Shandong Province.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and Ansoft Corporation have announced the availability of the industry's first parameterized spiral inductor design kit based on full-wave simulation.

China Mobile (CHL) says in the first three quarters of 2007, the Group's operating revenue reached CNY258.465 billion, representing an increase of 21.5% compared to the same period of last year.

In order to provide more convenience for users, China Mobile's Chongqing branch has launched a 24-hour self-help business hall to meet users' demands.

China Mobile's (CHL) data shows that the user number for the company's Fetion service increased dramatically from 2.1 million in January to 10 million in June of this year.

ZTE has passed a resolution at its third shareholder meeting of the year to issue convertible bonds of no more than CNY4 billion to raise funds for the construction and development of TD-SCDMA related equipment.

Hutchison (HTX) has announced the launch of 3G services by its Macau mobile operation Hutchison Telephone (Macau) Limited.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced today that as of October 12, the expiration date for bidding of radio spectrum for the provision of CDMA 2000 mobile services, only one application was received and it was from PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited.

China Unicom has officially announced that it will compete in the bidding of the fifth 3G license in Hong Kong.

Shanghai Telecom launched a new payment service called Telephone POS Machine at each of its business halls across Shanghai during the October Golden Week holiday.

News from PConline is that China Unicom (CHU) has formally launched the 156 prefix number section for mobile phones to join its existing number sections prefixed with 130, 131 and 132.

China Netcom has signed a cooperation agreement with Australian telecom service provider Telstra on the transmission of telecommunications services between China and Australia for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

ZTE has announced that it has won 85% of new nodes for the seventh expansion of China Mobile's Multimedia Messaging Service and another 75% of new nodes during the latter's WAP expansion.

PacificNet's (PACT.PK) subsidiary PacificNet Epro has been selected by Jiangsu Telecom, China Telecom's (CHA) local branch, to provide CRM and call center consulting services for China Telecom's "114" Information Directory Services.

As a partner of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Shanghai Mobile has taken six major initiatives to serve the event which ends this week.