Friday the 13th did not play well for Apple today, as the company suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets.

China Unicom, the exclusive operator partner for Apple's iPhone smartphones in China, has announced the contracted prices for iPhone 4S, starting at CNY5,880.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced that its 139 email service has opened to the users of China Unicom and China Telecom.

China Unicom has reportedly decided to start selling the iPhone 4S, Apple's latest smartphone, from January 6, 2012.

Starting from January 1, 2012, China Mobile Beijing has extended the validity period of its prepaid SIM cards, including electronic cards, from the current two years to five years.

According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000.

By the end of September 2011, there were 150 million registered users of mobile phone application stores in China, an increase of almost 50% compared with the previous quarter, according to latest statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Apple's latest smartphone product iPhone 4S will start retail sales in Hong Kong on November 11, 2011.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published its user statistics for September 2011, stating that the number of its 2G mobile users increased by 81.59% compared with the previous month and its 3G users increased by 15.28%.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has published a report on the telecom service quality in China for the third quarter of 2011, stating that 17,099 telecom service complaints were received during the reporting period, an increase of 13.8% compared with the previous quarter.

Digerati in China's capital city are set to welcome free wireless surfing beginning November 2011.

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

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corporation has announced that it will cooperate with mainstream telecom operators to create ten international innovation centers in Europe and America.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published its operating statistics for June 2011, stating that the number of its 2G mobile phone users increased by 417,000 and its 3G users increased by 1.855 million during the reporting period.