A subsidiary of Telenor and a wireless telecom operator in Malaysia, DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has announced the appointment of ZTE Corporation to build a unified mobile network that will provide DiGi with fully transformed 2G/3G/4G network, starting from the third quarter of 2011.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that it has signed a USD100 million contract with the New Zealand-based mobile network 2degrees to help the company upgrade its network over the next two years.

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.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that UQ Communications, the mobile WiMAX license holder in Japan, has started deploying the WiMAX Pico base stations developed by ZTE in collaboration with Hitachi.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has signed an agreement with the Belgian wireless Internet equipment maker Option, to acquire all issued shares of M4S, Option's wholly-owned semiconductor company.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has cooperated with the Uzbekistan cellular communications provider UCell in the launch of a LTE network in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan.

China Mobile and Taiwanese Far Eastone Telecommunications have reportedly signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly construct a TD-LTE trial network and promote the development of TD-LTE technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent will soon deploy 3G WCDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces and municipalities.

According to an insider from China Mobile, the company will deploy its first TD-LTE trial network in Shanghai and will bring it into trial operation during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Even though it already declared bankruptcy in Canada, Nortel is still working hard on expanding its business within China, and the company just unveiled details of its LTE TDD 4G tests.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced that the company has won a contract from TeliaSonera, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Nordic and Baltic regions, to deploy the world's first LTE commercial network in Oslo, the capital of Norway.