A British man has set a world record by making the first mobile telephone call from the summit of Mt. Qomolangma, The Himalayan Times daily reported on Wednesday. “It’s cold, it’s fantastic, the Himalayas are everywhere,” Rod Baber said in the phone call from the top of the world’s highest peak early Tuesday morning, according […]

China Mobile Communications Corp. is to invite bids for the supply of TD-SCDMA cell phones worth 4 billion to 6 billion yuan in September, according to industry insiders. Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-CDMA) is the third generation (3G) mobile telecommunications standard developed by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology in collaboration with Datang

The Economic Times has reported that Vodafone Group will transfer its 5.6% stake in Bharti Airtel back to a Bharti Group company for USD1.6 billion by November 2008. The newspaper also reveals that Vodafone will invest USD1 billion in India in 2007, nearly 20% of its global expenditure. Earlier this year Vodafone took a controlling