Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and Chinese mainland's China Telecom will cooperate in the launch of Wi-Fi mobile Internet roaming service.

The Open Data Center Alliance announced that China Unicom Group has joined the steering committee of the organization, and Chinese search engine Baidu.com has become a contributor member.

Harvey Chang, president and chief executive officer of Taiwan Mobile, has decided not to renew his employment contract after seven years of service.

Shyue-Ching Lu, chairman of Chunghwa Telecom, has revealed that the company plans to set up a subsidiary on the Chinese mainland in the second half of 2010, with expected capital of TWD1 billion.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, China Unicom and Taiwan Mobile have jointly launched a roaming preferential policy to free travelers between the mainland and Taiwan from high roaming fees.

Initiated by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association, and Taiwan Information Service Industry Association, and joined by 50 Taiwanese communications service enterprises, the Taiwan Cloud Computing Consortium has been established to improve Taiwan's competitiveness in the global cloud computing market.

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.

Chunghwa Telecom, Trend Micro, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry will jointly set up a cloud computing center and will invest NTD1 billion to establish a cloud computing company.

Taiwan plans to issue two mobile television licenses in October 2010 and the capital threshold for applicants is reportedly about NTD1 billion.

The world's leading mobile telecommunications company Vodafone has signed a strategic cooperation agreement the Taiwanese telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom to provide a series of services to its users in Taiwan.

Taiwanese telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom has published a report stating that the pre-tax profit of the company is expected to be NTD11.79 billion in the third quarter of 2009, a significant decrease compared with the NTD17.28 billion in the same period of last year.

Chinese mainland telecommunications operator China Mobile and the Taiwanese telecom company Far Eastone Telecommunications may jointly set up a joint venture in mainland China to sell mobile application products.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Liu Liqing, director for the China Association of Communications Enterprises, has revealed that the Chinese mainland will sign a cooperative memorandum with Taiwan to build a TD-SCDMA trial network in Taiwan.

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision has announced that it will cooperate with Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry to develop a cloud computer software plan, which will be launched in June 2009.

Chairman of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou says that the company is negotiating with three major Taiwanese telecommunications operators to launch a roaming service.