Chinese telecom device maker Huawei has renewed its global patent cross license agreement with Ericsson. As a part of the …

China's ZTE Corporation has signed a contract with Slovak operator SWAN for a nationwide LTE network project. ZTE will exclusively construct a core CS/PS network, and a GSM/LTE mobile communications and value added services network, involving over 1,100 dual-mode GSM/LTE base stations to SWAN. Financial terms of the deal were not released. SWAN was granted […]

Chinese e-commerce website JD.com and top smartphone maker Coolpad announced that the two parties have reached a strategic cooperation agreement and signed a CNY10 billion procurement contract. Li Bin, executive vice president of Coolpad, said that the company previously sought opportunities to sell more directly to the Internet sector and tried the pre-sale model by […]

Lenovo has unveiled its first 4G LTE smartphone, the Lenovo Vibe Z. To complement the Vibe Z, Lenovo also launched a trio of smartphones, starting with the S930, a large 6-inch device primed for media addicts, the S650, a 4.7-inch compact workhorse, and the A859, a 5-inch high performance all-rounder. As Lenovo's first smartphone featuring […]

Apple says it will finally rollout the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c with China Mobile on January 17, 2014. Pre-registration from China Mobile's official website at 10086.cn and customer service hotline 10086 will begin in two days. But Apple says pricing and availability of both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, which will run on […]

Chinese telecom device maker ZTE published its semi-annual performance results ended June 30, 2013, stating that during the first half of 2013, the company achieved operating revenue of CNY37.708 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 11.57%; while its net profit attributable to shareholders was CNY302 million, a year-on-year increase of 23.47%. According to the report, the […]

China Telecom has just lowered international roaming fees in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Egypt, and South Africa. With the new policy, users will pay no more than CNY2.99 per minute for calling from these countries and regions to mainland China, or receiving calls in these countries and regions, representing an […]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile published its annual financial report for 2012, stating that the company's operating revenue was CNY560.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%; and its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY129.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.7%. At the same time, China Mobile's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were CNY253.6 […]

From January to June 2012, China's mobile phone shipment reached over 190 million units, including 107 million 3G mobile phones, according to statistics released by China Academy of Telecommunication Research of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. During the first half of 2012, a total number of 2,099 types of new mobile phones […]

China Unicom and Motorola have jointly launched Motorola's first low-price smartphone XT390 in China. This is reportedly the first time for Motorola to launch a smartphone with price of around CNY1,000 in China and the company is the first international mobile phone maker to support China's "CNY1,000 smartphone strategy". Motorola XT390 adopts the Android 2.3 […]

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has signed an official settlement agreement with Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson in which the two parties have reportedly withdrawn all patent infringement lawsuits against each other. According to the agreement, the two companies dropped all ongoing and pending patent infringement litigation against each other in Germany, the United Kingdom, […]

Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said that by the end of October 2011, China Mobile has signed wireless city construction agreements with over 160 cities in 26 provinces in China, of which nearly 150 cities in 22 provinces had completed construction of basic wireless city platforms. At the same time, the company has developed […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic […]

Ericsson has acquired Guangdong Nortel Telecommunication Equipment Company for USD50 Million. As the joint venture of the global communication giant Nortel in China, Guangdong Nortel was founded in 1995. It is dedicated to introducing high-end technology and actively promoting localization of research, development, production and services with its telecommunication technology, reliable product quality, and specialist […]

According to reports in foreign media, BSNL, the state-owned telecom operator in India, has banned the Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE from the bidding for the GSM projects in the northern and eastern zones in India.
Kuldeep Goyal, chairman of BSNL, said that compared with Chinese-made equipment, those made by Western European manufacturers are […]

Based on its commitment to deploy commercial wireless services based on Long-Term Evolution, China Telecom has now been granted membership in the GSM Association.
According to the GSMA, China Telecom will begin the commercial deployment of LTE as early as 2010.
LTE was developed to enable a significant increase in the bandwidth achievable over mobile networks, while […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom and Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad have jointly launched the […]

Indian state-owned telecom operator BSNL has announced that it canceled the 20 million GSM equipment […]

Indian state-owned telecommunications operator BSNL has announced that it has placed a purchase order of mobile communication equipment of 20 million GSM lines for India's southern zone to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and will not call for any new bids.
Kuldeep Goyal, chairman and general manager for BSNL, said that they have already given […]

The China Unicom Beijing branch has published a notice and says starting from September 1, 2009, the branch launched new charging policies for long-distance calls to cut mobile phone communication fees.
Prior to this, China Unicom's long-distance call fee consisted of two parts, the long-distance communication fee and the local communication fee. However, with the new […]