China Mobile will reportedly launch this year's first 4G terminal tender bidding process in late April, aiming to buy 160,000 devices.

Italian telecom operator Wind Telecommunicazioni announced that Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei will lead a joint venture to provide the latest LTE mobile broadband technologies to Wind.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei published its audited annual results for 2012.

Cai Mengbo, marketing vice president of Huawei wireless network, revealed to Chinese local media that Huawei's wireless network business may not see growth in the American market in 2013.

China Mobile's Hong Kong-listed branch and Vodafone jointly announced that the two parties have signed a cooperation agreement to participate in the telecom license bidding in Burma.

China Unicom's annual results for 2012 showed that the company's operating revenue increased by 19% year-on-year to CNY248.93 billion in 2012; and its net profit increased by 68.5% year-on-year to CNY7.1 billion.

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%.

During the Chinese New Year week-long holiday, the number of short messages sent via China Mobile's network saw an increase, although the growth slowed: the volume of multimedia messages and data services increased significantly with 105% data traffic growth year over year.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom recently announced that the company's net profit was expected to increase by over 50% for the year of 2012.

Hong Kong-listed China Telecom Company Ltd. completed the purchase of CDMA network assets from its parent company on December 31, 2013, and the related delivery arrangement has finished.

Statistics published by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China showed that by the end of November 2012, China had 1.104 billion mobile phone users, including 220 million 3G users.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE announced that the company signed a new financial strategic cooperation agreement with China Development Bank for overseas project financing and a line of credit.

China Mobile reportedly plans to start the commercial use of the LTE TDD/FDD converged network in Hong Kong from December 18, 2012.

Mobile phone retail chain D.phone has opened 30 Apple iOS licensing stores in Beijing, making it the largest Apple-authorized sales channel provider in the communications chain market in Beijing.

China Mobile has launched a new 12585 voice service hotline, which can provide real-time traffic updates and mapping for 15 cities in China.