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.

The case in which Shi Yuchen, the user of the Chinese personal access system known as Little Smart, sued China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has been rejected by the court in Beijing.

Shi Yuchen, a user of the Chinese personal access system also known as Little Smart, has sued China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court for canceling the Little Smart service without a public hearing and has asked the court to withdraw the relevant documents issued by MIIT.

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

ZTE, one of China's biggest telecommunications equipment manufacturers, told local media that the company will invest over CNY6 billion to build a research and production base in Xi'an in the next few years.

China Telecom (CHA) has reportedly finished its five million CDMA terminals tender and more than ten handset manufacturers are included in the successful bidder list that is topped by Samsung and ZTE.

China Netcom announced its unaudited 2008 interim results today and said its revenue for the first half of 2008 hit CNY41.125 billion.

Shanghai has seen the appearance of boxes with the three colors of blue, green and orange for the reclamation of old mobile phones from which useful metals are expected to be taken.

Chai Baocheng, a deputy to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, says that charging monthly fees for fixed telephones is a monopolization of the communications industry and he suggests that the fee should soon be canceled.