Chinese Telecom Bi-Weekly news

May 15th 2008 to May 29th 2008

May 29
Gemtek and Asustek not affected by Centrino 2 delay, says paper
Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch BlackBerry Pearl 8120
LTE to become mainstream technology for future wireless communications, says NSN executive
Samsung selects Silicon Motion DVB-H tuner for new mobile phone

May 28
Taiwan market: Asustek launches P320 mini GPS PDA phone

May 27
E-Ten expected to launch dual-SIM Windows Mobile smartphone at Computex 2008

May 26
Taiwan telecom carrier APBT nets NT$147 million due to reversal of impairment losses in 2007
China mobile phone user base surpasses 583 million in April
Taiwan market: Handset sales down 8.5% on month in April
Global mobile market revenues to top US$1 trillion in 2012, says Ovum

May 23
Taiwan market: Fitel expects PHS operation to break even in July
Chunghwa Telecom may up target number of 3G subscribers in 2008
T3G not giving up TD-SCDMA solution development
HTC and Bharti Airtel jointly launch Touch Diamond in India

May 22
HTC raises Touch Diamond shipment projection for 2008, says paper

May 21
China handset-design house Wingtech aims to become ODM handset maker

May 20
China-based Datang Telecom to re-enter handset market, say sources
HTC second largest smartphone vendor in India
Beijing Tianyu largest domestic-brand handset vendor in China

May 19
Taiwan market: CHT faring well towards goal of one million FTTx users in 2008
Vmax Telecom to finalize suppliers for WiMAX equipment in June

May 16
Sprint and Samsung declare Mobile WiMAX ready for commercial service
Largan said to land orders for phone camera lens kits used in HTC Touch Diamond
Ericsson to cooperate with Zyxel and Wistron NeWeb for IP STB production, say sources
Taiwan market: Smartphone sales top 417,000 units in 1Q08
Foxconn unveils consolidated financial figures for 1Q08