Indian state-owned telecom operator BSNL has announced that it has canceled the 20 million GSM equipment order that it had previously placed with the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei.

Indian state-owned telecommunications operator BSNL has announced that it has placed a purchase order of mobile communication equipment of 20 million GSM lines for India's southern zone to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and will not call for any new bids.

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a cooperative agreement with the Japanese mobile operator Willcom to provide ZTE's 3G data card product MF633 to users in Japan.

Following a series of successful auctions in Europe and North America, GoIndustry DoveBid will be hosting an inaugural online auction for Motorola in China from June 16 to June 18.

China-based wireless baseband chipset provider Spreadtrum Communications has become Samsung's newest supplier.

According to the decision announced by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, the Korean electronics maker Samsung has been ordered to pay CNY50 million compensation to the Zhejiang-based Holley Communications for infringing the patent of Holley's GSM/CDMA dual-mode handsets.

The Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE has signed a USD400 million agreement with the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation to provide 15 million wireless mobile networks in Ethiopia.

Chinese e-commerce service provider Alibaba has announced plans to finally form a joint venture with Softbank Japan to fully take over the original Japanese language website of Alibaba.

Ericsson signed GSM expansion framework agreements this week with China Mobile and China Unicom valued at about US$1.3 billion and US$140 million, respectively.