China Mobile will reportedly launch this year's first 4G terminal tender bidding process in late April, aiming to buy 160,000 devices.

China Mobile's Hong Kong-listed branch and Vodafone jointly announced that the two parties have signed a cooperation agreement to participate in the telecom license bidding in Burma.

Nokia has closed its largest store in mainland China, a flagship retail outlet in Shanghai's busy shopping zone on Nanjing East Road.

China Telecom published its annual results for 2012, stating that its total operating revenue reached CNY283.073 billion, a year-on-year increase of 15.5%; but its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY14.925 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 9.5%.

Samsung China revealed in its corporate social responsibility report for 2012 that during the reporting period, Samsung's total operating revenue in China reached USD75.1 billion.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile published its annual financial report for 2012, stating that the company's operating revenue was CNY560.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%; and its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY129.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.7%.

South Korea's Samsung sold 30.06 million smartphones in China in 2012, ranking first in the Chinese smartphone market for the first time.

During the Mobile World Congress 2013 held in Barcelona, Spain, the Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE launched ZTE Open, its first smartphone product running on Firefox OS.

Taiwanese OEM Foxconn may produce the first smartphone product for Vizio, an American LCD HDTV provider, in 2013.

Chinese third-party Internet payment service provider Alipay.com has published its report showing that the mobile payment service developed rapidly in China in 2012 with 546% year-on-year growth by trading value; and the number of people who used this service increased by 223%.

China Internet Network Information Center recently published its 31st Internet survey report, stating that by the end of December 2012, the number of Internet users in China had reached 564 million and the Internet penetration rate was 42.1%, which was 3.8 percentage points higher than 2011.

South Korea's Samsung has announced plans to invest USD1.7 billion to expand the production capacity of its plant in Kunshan, Jiangsu province.

Wang Hengjiang, deputy general manager for China Mobile's terminal subsidiary, revealed during Qualcomm's Chinese partner summit that in 2012, the company's sales of TD-SCDMA devices were over 60 million units, higher than the targeted 55 million units.

MiTalk, the instant messaging and social application from the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, has formed a partnership with Mface, a mobile social network in Southeast Asia, for the promotion of MiTalk throughout the entire Asian market.

Statistics published by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China showed that by the end of November 2012, China had 1.104 billion mobile phone users, including 220 million 3G users.