News apparently from Datang reveals that the Chinese government has decided to merge the two stated-owned telecom equipment makers, Datang Telecom and Potevio, before the end of 2010.

Chinese telecom companies Potevio and ZTE have signed a comprehensive strategic agreement to implement a cooperation in the TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE sectors.

During the recent "TD-SCDMA Innovation Festival", Lv Yan, CEO and president of Lenovo Mobile and chairman on duty of the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance conference, announced that seven new members will join the alliance.

An executive from China's Datang Mobile revealed to local media that Xie Yongbin, president of Datang Mobile, has resigned and will be replaced by Li Zhuyuan, former vice president of Datang Telecom.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published the list of the top 100 Chinese electronic information enterprises in 2009, with the telecom equipment maker Huawei topping the list with annual revenue of CNY122.7 billion.

China Mobile has unveiled the results for its third-phase TD-SCDMA network tender which covers 200 Chinese cities.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has published the ratings for its third round TD-SCDMA equipment tender, with ZTE, Huawei, and Datang gaining listings on the top.

According to a Chinese TD-SCDMA equipment provider, China Mobile will launch its third round 3G wireless network equipment tender on March 16, 2009.

China Mobile (CHL) has released the results for its second round TD-SCDMA tender, and Chinese manufacturer Datang is the largest winner with ZTE, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks also gaining significant chunks of the deal.

Although the final result for its second-round TD-SCDMA tender has not come out yet, China Mobile (CHL) has now started its planning for the third-round TD-SCDMA deployment and the company will reportedly set up TD-SCDMA networks in 162 Chinese cities.

The Chinese invented noodles and then exported them to Italy, and now Italy has one more thing to add to its list of Chinese imports: TD-SCDMA.

The Telecom Research Institute of China's Ministry of Information Industry has begun to issue the first batch of TD-SCDMA network licenses, and ZTE and Potevio have been among the first Chinese communications equipment providers to obtain their licenses.