Li Wang, executive vice president of the Chinese mobile phone brand Coolpad, revealed that the company plans to completely stop manufacturing mobile phones and non-smartphone devices in 2012.

By the end of September 2011, there were 150 million registered users of mobile phone application stores in China, an increase of almost 50% compared with the previous quarter, according to latest statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, revealed that the company will continue to develop the Chinese Wi-Fi market and plans to invest CNY10 billion in this sector in 2011.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Xi'an, Shaanxi, to invest CNY16 billion for the construction of a wireless city infrastructure.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China.

According to latest statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to October 2010, China realized accumulated telecom revenue of CNY2.544 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 20.7%; and that from major telecom businesses was CNY744.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.6%.

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace.

According to statistics provided by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of May 2010, the number of China's 3G users had reached 21.9 million, an increase of 8.642 million compared with the end of 2009.

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.

According to Su Feng, vice president of the Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad, unlike its former high-end orientation, Coolpad will expand to now cover the entire high, medium, and low-end mobile phone markets in 2010. Therefore, the company plans to build at least 2,000 new self-owned sales channel sites this year to increase its overall [...]

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.

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

Mats H Olsson, Ericsson's head of China and Northeast Asia, said during the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held in Shanghai from May 17 to May 18, 2010, that Ericsson has decided not to enter the Chinese CDMA equipment market again.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has published its annual financial report for 2009, stating that its sales worldwide increased by 19% year-on-year to CNY149.1 billion.

Nokia and China Mobile have announced the launch of a joint mobile phone application store, MM-Ovi, marking a new start for two companies' cooperation in the mobile application sector.