Chinese Telecom Weekly news

December 28th 2007 to January 4th 2008

Jan 4
Resignation of APBT chairman makes KDDI investment uncertain
HTC sees limited impact from court injunction against Qualcomm
Ways Technical teams up with FIH subsidiary for device surface treatment

Jan 3
APBT to introduce CDMA technology from Sprint Nextel
HTC mulls adding additional 3G chipset supplier

Jan 2
Chunghwa Telecom foreign stake limit up from 49% to 55%, reports paper
China TechFaith Wireless and BYD form CDMA joint venture
Wanshih reportedly lands mini coaxial cable orders from Motorola and Nokia
Spreadtrum, Amoi and Kuro jointly launch music phones with copyright protection in China
Asustek and Dopod voice support for CMMB mobile TV broadcast standard in China

Dec 31
China mobile phone user base nears 540 million in November 2007
Taiwan science park posts January-October revenues of over NT$940 billion
Asustek to launch four new handsets in January and MID PDA phone in mid-2008
Fitel likely to purchase WiMAX base stations and end-to-end networks from Motorola