Zhang Zhiqiang, president for Nokia Siemens Networks Greater China, has revealed to the Chinese local media that during the second quarter of 2011, the company's sales in China reached EUR402 million, a year-on-year increase of 13%.

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.

The world's leading wireless platforms and semiconductors developer ST-Ericsson has launched a new platform in China to enable makers to make multi-function mobile phones with high-speed Internet performance.

Ericsson has signed separate framework agreements with China Mobile and China Unicom, with the total value of USD1.8 billion.

Based on its commitment to deploy commercial wireless services based on Long-Term Evolution, China Telecom has now been granted membership in the GSM Association.

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a contract with the Turkish telecom operator Turkcell to build a universal mobile telecommunication system network for Byelorussian Telecommunication Network, the operator's subsidiary in Belarus.

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a cooperative agreement with the Japanese mobile operator Willcom to provide ZTE's 3G data card product MF633 to users in Japan.

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies has published its annual financial report for 2008 and states that its global sales increased by 42.7% year-on-year to USD18.33 billion, which equals about CNY125 billion, while its net profit increased by 20% year-on-year to USD1.15 billion, about CNY7.9 billion.

ZTE USA Inc., a subsidiary of China's ZTE Corporation, has unveiled its LTE strategy for the North American market with a Software Defined Radio platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months.

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

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced that PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited has launched CDMA2000 mobile service in Hong Kong.

According to Ihab Ghattas, assistant president of Huawei Middle East, the Chinese telecommunications equipment and solutions provider plans to launch its first LTE/SAE commercial network in June 2009, providing LTE/SAE infrastructure to mobile operators.

Ericsson (ERIC) has signed a deal with Far EasTone Telecommunications for HSPA network expansion to up to 95% of the population in the region.