The Samoan Islands have passed a milestone with the launch of their first commercial 4G services...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has granted China Unicom permission to begin offering Apple’s latest iteration of the iPhone, the 4S model...

The Indonesian media has reported that certain services provided by RIM’s BlackBerry devices will be blocked by the country’s government...

Localised versions of a popular free PC-to-cell SMS chat application are launching in India, Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines...

Smartphone shipments reached a record 24 million units in China during the third quarter of 2011, surpassing the 23 million units shipped in the US...

Global mobile subscriptions will reach over six billion by the end of this year and the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than half of the worldwide figure in 2011...

Converged connectivity across 3G and Wi-Fi networks will soon be available to subscribers of the market leading wireless operator in the Philippines...

One of China’s leading operators is expanding its broadband access network...

Customers of Qtel Group companies in six different markets can now use the pioneering Gmail SMS Chat service...

The manufacturer of an Android smartphone billed as a home-grown competitor to the iPhone in China is reportedly interested in creating software for its device...

One of China Mobile’s general managers has stated his belief that the next iPhone will not only support LTE tech, but could potentially provide services over both the unpaired TDD and the paired FDD versions of LTE spectrum...

A TD-LTE network will soon be launching in China following the announcement of a new joint venture...

One of Malaysia’s major service providers has deployed a roaming solution to reduce bill shock...

Indonesia’s first successful LTE field trial in the 1800 MHz band has been completed by the country’s market leader...

Although the first three quarters of 2011 have been stable for China Mobile, a statement from the world’s largest operator acknowledge that there were still many factors which “posed challenges to the group” going forward, such as market saturation in China and the advent of new technologies...

A subsidiary of China Mobile is deploying new planning tools throughout its network....

Based on operator figures from the first half of 2011, Thailand’s mobile market has performed more positively than might have been expected...

Subscribers across the Mariana Islands in Micronesia will soon have access to a new messaging solution provided by the archipelago’s leading telecoms firm, IT&E...

Intense competition has negatively affected Vietnam’s ARPU levels and the country’s mobile market is fast-approaching saturation...

The commercialisation process of TD-LTE in China has taken another step forward following the announcement of a joint trial based on the technology to be conducted by Sequans Communications and Huawei...

Broadband provider Clearwire and mobile operator China Mobile have entered into a partnership which will focus on developing TD-LTE devices...

Although operators in Cambodia have a tendency to overstate subscriber figures to boost market share, growth does appear strong in the Southeast Asian country...

Vietnam initially fell well short of the ambitious targets it set for the wider expansion of its telecommunications infrastructure. However, after reviewing its approach and introducing some competition into the market, this ‘socialist oriented market economy’ has built a fresh growth momentum...

With declines in ARPU worse than previously forecast, Indonesia is one of the riskier markets in Asia-Pacific – but it holds significant promise...

The new platform from Chinese search engine operator Baidu has reportedly been previewed, although the firm has not yet revealed a launch date. The operating system, known as Baidu Yi, is based on Google’s Android platform...

One of Malaysia’s leading broadband providers has completed an OSS transformation in order to boost customer services and maintain competitiveness...

Disaster relief efforts through South and Southeast Asia will be augmented by a new partnership between Ericsson and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel)...

The number three operator in China has reported a significant boost in 3G adoption across the first half of 2011...

Technology giant Apple could be looking to make headway into emerging markets, with reports indicating that the firm could be prepping a low-cost iPhone 4 for launch in Asia...

In this bylined article, Bob Drummond, Vice-President of Asia-Pacific at OpenCloud, discusses an open and flexible framework for service development and delivery, to improve the customer experience and bolster new revenues. Observations are based on the innovative approaches employed in the Asia-Pacific region...

The Malaysian operator Maxis Berhad is overhauling its core transmission network with the deployment of a 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution, provided by Alcatel-Lucent...

China could see more than $8 billion in mobile payments by 2014...

The Philippines’ mobile market is approaching saturation, which is leading to a slowdown in subscriber growth...