<- November 12, 2008 ->

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SARFT to Purchase 1 Mln CMMB Terminals in 2009

Chinanews.com.cn, 11/11/08

Wang Xiaojie, director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT)'s Science and Technology Department, has revealed that next year SARFT plans to purchase 1 mln CMMB terminals. Read More...

CMMB Handsets to Get Telecom Network Access Next Year

C114, 11/12/08

An executive from a telecommunications consulting firm recently revealed that mobile handsets supporting the CMMB mobile phone TV standard are expected to be allowed to receive network access permits from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) next year. Read More...

China to Issue TV Shopping Standards Next Year

Shanghai Morning Post, 11/12/08

Chairman Wang Wenxue of the Professional Committee of Media Shopping at the China General Chamber of Commerce said that the committee is currently in the process of drafting standards for the television shopping industry, to be released next year at the latest. Read More...

Qinghai Telecom, Unicom Begin Telecom Infrastructure Sharing

Sohu IT, 11/12/08

Qinghai Telecom and Qinghai Unicom have signed the Cooperative Framework Agreement on Resource Sharing and Joint Telecommunications Infrastructure Construction, and will begin to open their communications towers, machine rooms, access transmitters, fiber and electricity resources, pipes, pole lines, and indoor resources to one another through resource trading or rental for for-pay usage. Read More...

Paipai Reveals Strategy

Tencent Tech, 11/12/08

Tencent's (0700.HK) C2C platform Paipai officially announced yesterday that in the future Paipai will work to build a single-site, ‘social transaction' platform. Read More...

9You Responds to Listing Rumors

Tencent Tech, 11/11/08

Responding to current rumors that Chinese online game developer and operator 9you had rekindled its public listing plans, 9you CEO Wu Jun stated that given the current macro-economic situation, 9you currently had no firm listing plans and stated that it would not happen this year, but it might be a possibility next year. Read More...