China Unicom has completed its first cloud computing procurement project, and four manufacturers won the bidding for various aspects of the project.

Chinese electronics group Haier has signed an agreement with the government of Guyana to provide laptops for the "One Laptop Per Family" initiative of the country.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority is inviting companies to participate in the auction of radio spectrum in the 850 MHz, 900 MHz and 2 GHz bands for the provision of public mobile telecommunications services in Hong Kong.

Telecommunications and wireless services provider UTStarcom has won the bid for Jinan Radio & TV Network Center's equipment purchase project to become the center's exclusive broadband solution provider and thus step up its network upgrading efforts.

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.

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.

China Mobile has unveiled the results for its third-phase TD-SCDMA network tender which covers 200 Chinese cities.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has published the ratings for its third round TD-SCDMA equipment tender, with ZTE, Huawei, and Datang gaining listings on the top.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced that three mobile network operators have successfully bid for a total of 9.6 MHz of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz frequency band at a total of upfront spectrum utilization fee of HKD46.1 million.

Alcatel-Lucent is aiming for more Chinese 3G wireless growth with the signing of two framework agreements valued at a total of USD1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has invited applications from existing mobile network operators to participate in the online auction of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, which is scheduled to be held in June 2009.

According to a Chinese TD-SCDMA equipment provider, China Mobile will launch its third round 3G wireless network equipment tender on March 16, 2009.

China Unicom's Shanghai branch has gained 100,000 mobile phone numbers with the 186 prefix for its WCDMA business due to open commercially on May 17, 2009.

China Telecom has signed contracts with seven mobile phone makers to purchase 3G CDMA2000 EVDO mobile phones from these companies, and Samsung has come out on top.

According to Ma Daojie, vice general manager for China Telecom's mobile terminal subsidiary eSurfing, China Telecom will accelerate its purchase and sale of 3G mobile phones and the company will soon start its second round mobile phone tender.