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.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has announced that it will help Pakistan Telecommunications, the largest comprehensive telecom operator in Pakistan, update its 3G commercial network.

Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei, revealed in a new year's greeting letter to employees that the company realized sales of over USD30 billion in 2009, with sales income of USD21.5 billion.

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.

Taiwan-headquartered fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. and the U.S. wireless communication technology developer Qualcomm have signed a patent cross-licensing agreement.

Jamaican mobile telecommunications operator Digicel Jamaica has signed a contract with the Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE to buy its full turn-key solution for the first phase deployment of a 2.5GHz mobile WiMAX network.

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.

United States WiMAX network operator Clearwire has announced that it has selected the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies as its WiMAX network infrastructure provider.

The Joint Innovation Lab established by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help accelerate the uptake of innovative mobile technologies on a mass-market scale has a new member: Verizon Wireless.

Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor, made by Taiwan's VIA Technologies, in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook.