Asia Pacific

Taiwan Mobile has acquired Kbro, one of the country's leading cable TV operators in a deal that will create one of Taiwan's first converged multimedia players.

Japan's second-largest telco KDDI says it is keen to expand its overseas reach in the Asia-Pacific region through acquisitions, the Business Times reports, notes TeleGeography.

Wall Street Journal reports that chipmakers NEC and Renesas yesterday said they will receive a total of JPY200 billion (US$2.2 billion) from their respective parent companies as they move toward a planned merger.

TeleGeography reports that ZTE has partnered with Vietnamese mobile operator Vinaphone to roll out the operator's 3G network in the country's central provinces.

Industry group the VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) Forum today published its first complete set of approved specifications aimed at delivering mobile voice and SMS services over future LTE networks. The move is important as there is currently no single agreed way of providing voice and SMS capability on next-generation LTE networks.

Millicom has rejected a bid by Indian state-owned operator BSNL to buyout its Tigo-branded mobile network in Si Lanka, reports India's Economic Times

China Mobile has become the world's first mobile operator to pass the half a billion subscriber milestone. In a brief customer data update on its website this morning, the Chinese market-leader said it had reached 503 million customers by the end of August