Nokia Siemens Network Announces Job Cuts

In the midst of economic and market uncertainty, there are some companies that are still experiencing growth and hiring new employees, yet there are others that are feeling the strain and are making cuts in an effort to stay above water.
The telecommunications industry is not immune to the pressures of the economy and many are [...]

China Mobile holding second round TD-SCDMA bid

China Mobile has launched a second round bid for TD-SCDMA wireless network equipment which has attracted the attention of many China-based and international companies. Nokia Siemens Networks and its partner Huawei Technologies will both join the bid, according to industry sources.
The sources indicated that China Mobile is planning to purchase 23,000 base stations for 28 [...]

ZTE predicted to be biggest winner in China Telecom’s IPTV tender

ZTE is expected to win a large part of the recent tender by China Telecom for IPTV system platforms and set-top boxes in which it is competing with ten other companies, Interfax China reports quoting an industry insider.
China Telecom has shortlisted 11 companies to supply 574,000 IPTV set-top boxes, comprising 536,000 standard-definition and 38,000 high-definition [...]

ZTE, Huawei: Big Winners of China Telecom’s CDMA Orders

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., ZTE Corporation and Alcatel- Lucent shared the CNY 27.9 billion CDMA equipment contracts from state-owned telecommunications operator China Telecom.
China Telecom, which was encouraged to take over the CDMA network from China Unicom in the nation’s telecommunications industry regrouping, unveiled the result of its bidding invitation for CDMA equipment on August 20 [...]

China Telecom holds secret CDMA summit with vendors

In the sort of cloak and dagger conditions more usually reserved for the clandestine doings of security services spooks than the telco industry, last week more than a hundred China Telecom executives and researchers from all over the People’s Republic held a secret meeting with senior representatives of six CDMA vendors at Beijing’s Tangshan Holiday [...]

3G network all set for Games in Shanghai

Shanghai’s third-generation, or 3G, mobile phone network now covers 98 percent of the downtown area.
This means residents in Shanghai will have access to high-speed data services, such as mobile television, in time for Friday’s opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Yesterday, China Mobile’s Shanghai branch began offering short-term TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) [...]

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