China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.

Taiwanese Macronix International Company has announced that it has introduced the industry's highest performance 1.8V 4-I/O serial multi I/O Serial Flash memory.

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.

Hong Kong-based mobile telecommunications accessories manufacturer i.Tech Dynamic, a subsidiary of Hutchison Harbour Ring, has launched SolarVoice 908, a Bluetooth headset which i.Tech says is the first solar powered headset featuring noise reduction.

During China Telecom's recent meeting on the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, the vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years.

According to Taiwan's National Communications Commission, people who sell or buy "Shanzai" mobile phones via the Internet or in electrics marts will face a fine of up to NTD300,000, which is about CNY60,000, in Taiwan.

The Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce has published a list of substandard electronic and communications products.

According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years.

Motorola has begun a new round of job cuts, cutting about 1,000 staff in China.

The CEO of Aerius International, Bill Luxon, is traveling to China to meet with cell phone manufacturers in Shanghai and Shenzhen looking for suppliers to produce Aerius phones.