China's State Council has announced that it approves China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to start the issuing of 3G licenses and it will continue to support the development and promotion of the Chinese-made TD-SCDMA wireless technology.

China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited will sign a network capacity lease agreement with its parent company China Mobile Communications Corporation to rent the TD-SCDMA network capacity for one year at the price of no more than CNY1 billion.

China Wireless Technologies Limited just announced that it entered into a further legally binding agreement on December 17, 2008 with eSurfing Telecom Terminal Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Telecom (CHA), to supply 100,000 CDMA terminal devices to eSurfing Telecom.

Chinese mobile phone chain store D.Phone announced that the company has cooperated with Nokia (NOK) in opening a Nokia specialty store in Beijing.

TCL Group has published a notice stating the group has invited Dr. Charles Yang to be its vice president to be in charge of the brand business for TCL's mobile communications sector.

According to information from China Telecom, the company plans to complete its CDMA network upgrade and capacity expansion in 340 Chinese cities in the first half of 2009.

China Unicom has published its operating statistics for November 2008, which state the number of its GSM mobile phone users increased by 996,000 during the month, reaching an accumulated number of 133 million users.

Motorola (MOT) has been selected by China Telecom (CHA) as a key CDMA network infrastructure supplier to upgrade a portion of China Telecom's nationwide CDMA 2000 1X network to include next-generation broadband data capability and advanced multi-media services.

The Office of the Telecommunications Authority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has announced that it has agreed on allowing privatizing PCCW, one of the largest and most comprehensive communications providers in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has mounted an enforcement operation against the Citizens' Radio which is suspected of using illegal radio transmitters for broadcasting.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced that the GSM Association has approved China's Telecommunication Terminal Testing & Approval Forum to issue international mobile equipment identity numbers to Chinese mobile phone and more than 200 types of mobile phones have received the IMEI numbers.

The Taiwanese GPS and communications products developer and manufacturer Garmin Corporation has joined the Google-dominated (GOOG) Open Handset Alliance.

Jean-Marc Busato to Spearhead Region-Wide Growth and Development
Singapore (December 23, 2008) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Hospitality industry veteran, Jean-Marc Busato, has been appointed Managing Director of Carlson Hotels Worldwide – Asia Pacific (CHW-AP). Busato, who will take up his new position in January, 2009, will be based at CHW-AP's regional headquarters in Singapore. The appointment was […]

Huawei Marine Networks, a joint venture invested by Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems Limited, has started operation following an unveiling ceremony held in Tianjin.

After the world's IT giants Apple and Google launched their own respective handset operating systems, China's largest telecommunications operator China Mobile also expressed its intention to cooperate with handset manufacturers to develop handsets with a self-developed operating system.

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited has announced plans to invest CNY6.43 billion to acquire the fixed-line business in Tianjin and 21 southern Chinese provinces from its major shareholders China Unicom Group and China Netcom Group.

In response to Chinese media reports about China Telecom's (CHA) intention to acquire MediaTek, both of the sides say the news is not true.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom (CHA) is considering acquiring the Taiwan-based wireless communications and digital media solutions provider MediaTek.

According to just-released statistics from the Bureau of Statistics of Tibet, by 2007 the number of fixed-line and mobile phone users in Tibet had reached 1.443 million, which means every two persons in Tibet had one phone.

Shanghai, China (December 15, 2008) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Radisson Hotel Pudong Century Park, one of the world's leading, full-service hotel brands has launched 'The Art of Christmas', a charity auction that celebrates Chinese art during this festive season of giving and goodwill.
With all proceeds going to disadvantaged students of the Yang Dong Migrant Primary […]