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.

Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile have jointly announced that the two sides signed a cooperation agreement to promote the commercial development of TD-SCDMA in China and overseas.

With a total investment of RMB2.9 billion, Huawei will set up the world's largest data processing center and 3G R&D center in Nanjing.

Commit, a Chinese TD-SCDMA chip manufacturer which may face bankruptcy because of a loss of capital, has announced plans to stop business operations and pay off the defaulted salaries and travel expenses to its employees.

South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung has obtained a TD-SCDMA mobile phone order from China Mobile.

WJ Communications, a supplier of radio frequency products and solutions for the wireless infrastructure and radio frequency identification reader markets, announced it will start shipping TD-SCDMA Multi Chip Module chipsets to China in the first quarter of 2008.