Information from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is that in 2009 a total number of 784.04 billion mobile short messages were sent in China, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, with an average of 2.1 billion sent daily.

Beijing Tourism Administration has launched its WAP portal wap.visitbeijing.com.cn to offer a new information service channel to tourists.

Just weeks after China's largest telecommunications operator halted paying firms for some wireless services, two foreign companies now ironically plan to join forces to push educational services to China's mobile phone citizenry.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has issued an update on schemes within the Chinese mobile sector following the company's press release last month in which it expected a downturn caused by a suspension of telecommunications billing in China.

It takes guts to be the first to admit a failure, and Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation has now become the first U.S.-listed mobile firm from China to admit an expected downturn caused by last week's suspension of telecommunications billing.

Just days after China Mobile slammed shut the ability for wireless value-added service providers to gain revenue from their mobile services, specific Chinese technology companies have been named in the crackdown to rid China of mobile and Web-based pornography.

Wireless value-added services revenue precipitously dropped in the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, for weary Chinese mobile interactive entertainment services company Linktone Ltd.

In an effort to fight mobile pornography, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has announced that it suspended all of its WAP service partners' ability to charge for services as of November 30, 2009. This applies to all of its WAP wireless value-added service partners in China, regardless of a partner's propensity to disseminate pornography.

According to an executive from Beijing Wuxian Xunqi Information Technology Company, the exclusive operator of China Mobile's 12580 comprehensive service platform, the company plans to launch its initial public offering in the next one or two years.

The 7 Days Inn hotel franchise group has recently introduced an automated check-in system for its members in China.

Chinese software, security, and online game provider Kingsoft has announced the formal launch of its wireless Internet site, wap.shouji.cn, providing various mobile phone application services to users who surf via mobile phones.

According to Zhu Jun, deputy director for the communication development department of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first half of 2009, China's three major telecom operators totally invested about CNY80 billion in 3G projects.

Vacationers in China's sunny Hainan province will soon have more opportunity to take their multimedia with them to the beach, thanks to an agreement inked between UTStarcom and Hainan Telecom.

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre has published a list of the second batch of websites which provide "vulgar" Internet content.

The telecommunications company Peoples, China Mobile's subsidiary in Hong Kong, announced that the company has changed its registered name to China Mobile Hong Kong from December 5, 2008, though its service brand Peoples will be maintained.