China's leading mobile phone operator, China Mobile, reported a 23.6 percent net profit rise last week, broadly in line with market expectations

In the first half of 2006, China sold 53 million mobile handsets with retail mobile handset saes worth US$9 million

It is widely rumoured in the Chinese telecoms industry that China Telecom, the country's largest fixed-line operator, is in talks to buy China Unicom's CDMA network

A mobile phone subscriber from Nanjing has won a landmark lawsuit brought against China Unicom for sending unsolicited promotional text messages

China Unicom is to be awarded a third generation (3G) mobile operating licence in the former Portuguese colony of Macau

Shanghai-listed China Unicom announced last week that its parent company, the China Unicom Group, is to buy back up to four percent of the subsidiary company over the next nine months

Beijing's mobile phone users are starting to enjoy cheaper tariffs thanks to entrepreneurial moves by telecoms operators from other cities in China

Despite having a record of being one of the longstanding underdog success and survival stories in the Chinese telecoms sector, analysts are now foretelling the demise of PHS services in the relatively near future

Chinese authorities in parts of Eastern China battered by recent tropical storms have turned to mobile technologies to help with citizen protection and mass mobilisation