Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has published its annual financial report for 2009, stating that its operating revenue increased by 9.8% year-on-year to CNY452.103 billion, while its net profit increased by 2.3% year-on-year to CNY115.166 billion.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has finally published an official announcement, confirming that it will invest CNY39.8 billion to acquire a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.

London, UK (March 12, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The NGMN Alliance today announced its NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition 2010 will take place on the 2-4 June, in Shanghai, China. As in the previous years the conference will feature an unrivalled line-up of top executives from NGMN partner companies and representatives from the entire mobile [...]

According to the report on the performance of China's communications industry for January 2010 published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on its official website, the country's telecom operators completed total business volume of CNY231.25 billion, a year-on-year increase of 21.6%; while their revenue from core businesses increased by 5% year-on-year to CNY66.97 [...]

Initiated by China Telecom, the operator of the CDMA2000 network in China, China's "CDMA2000 Mobile Phone Design and Development Industry Alliance" has been founded in Beijing with over 100 members, including mobile phone chip platform providers, mobile phone design companies, and brand manufacturers with independent development abilities.

Singapore (March 05, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Traditional Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are actively competing with new entrants to capture and retain customer mindshare. At the core of today's changing communications marketplace, operators are constantly challenged to deliver new services and meet requirements from new business models.
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Chinese electronics-oriented B2C website 360buy.com has reached an acquisition agreement with Qianxun.com, a Korean-style apparel and accessories Internet shopping website.

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom and the Shanghai-based steel manufacturer Baosteel Group have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for overall operation of a traditional communications business, 3G business, and the Internet of Things business.

According to National Business Daily, China Mobile, one of the largest mobile operators in China, has received a new dictate on pay cuts.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued to domain name registrars a circular which asks further work to be done to verify the registration information of websites in the coming weeks.

A total of 23 billion short messages were sent in China during the 2010 Chinese New Year holiday, which was an average of 30.8 wireless messages sent per person based on the 747 million mobile phone users in the country.

China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced that its first flagship store under its 3G brand "Wo" has been opened in Beijing.

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 information from the press office of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to meet local people's demands for Internet, the region started to reopen 27 widely used and popular websites from February 6, 2010.

During the recent "TD-SCDMA Innovation Festival", Lv Yan, CEO and president of Lenovo Mobile and chairman on duty of the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance conference, announced that seven new members will join the alliance.

According to reports in local media, the domain name system of China's leading VoIP service provider UUCall has recovered and its website reopened on February 4, 2010.

RIM, the manufacturer of the BlackBerry smartphones, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese integrated IT services provider Digital China to enable the latter to resell BlackBerry smartphones in China.

According to local media reports, rival Chinese video websites Youku.com and Tudou.com have formed an alliance and jointly launched a new online video joint broadcast model, sharing the copyright of each other's exclusive videos.

Industry Visionaries And Leading Companies To Converge On Taipei To Address WiMAX Ecosystem Drivers , Commercial Deployments
London, England (February 03, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Today the WiMAX Forum announced details of the third annual WiMAX Forum Congress Asia conference and exhibition to take place in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 13–14, 2010. The first WiMAX Forum [...]

Just weeks after China's largest telecommunications operator halted paying firms for some wireless services, two foreign companies now ironically plan to join forces to push educational services to China's mobile phone citizenry.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has issued an update on schemes within the Chinese mobile sector following the company's press release last month in which it expected a downturn caused by a suspension of telecommunications billing in China.

China Telecom plans to establish a product center and will set up six content bases in five cities in China to develop a wider array of 3G software applications.

Following a week of media reports and rumors about pornographic mobile texting, China Mobile has now pledged that it will stop the transmission of five kinds of spam messages without bringing any negative impact to ordinary users.

Singapore (January 22, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mr Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.'s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head of Globe Telecom, Philippines, Mr Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services of Grameenphone, Bangladesh and Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology of WING, Cambodia will be sharing their success stories in launching Mobile Remittance/Mobile [...]

According to latest statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2009, China's telecom industry achieved accumulated revenue of CNY2.568 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%; and it reached operating revenue of CNY870.73 billion, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%.

In response to previous media reports that Chinese telecom operators will terminate mobile phone numbers involved in sending pornographic shorts messages, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom all said it is not entirely true.

BesTV New Media, Shanghai Media Group's new media subsidiary, and Orange, France Telecom's mobile and Internet network brand, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on technology and investment for integration of mobile phones, televisions, and computers.

Key Insights Into Wimax Deployment And Post Roll-out Strategies Are On Schedule At The Vietnam Mobile & Broadband International Summit 2010
Hanoi, Vietnam (January 18, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mobile phone usage in Vietnam is big and getting bigger. From pre-teens to over-60s, it seems everyone in Vietnam has a mobile phone, or even two. In [...]

Having already fed the Chinese market for over 20 years, the international fast food giant McDonald's has now announced plans to update its brand concept and will soon start to provide free wireless Internet services across China.