Hong Kong

Hong Kong's regulatory authorities seem likely to claw back 3G spectrum from the country's leading mobile network operators as part of a spectrum renewal process that will begin later... 2013-02-06

As a testament of SMS's rapidly declining popularity in developed countries, Hong Kong's Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) reported a drastic decrease in the number of messages... 2013-01-04

US-based VelaTel Global Communications (previously ChinaTel Group) has secured a US$12mn stock purchase agreement with Ironridge Technology, an institutional investor in the telecoms... 2012-12-19

3 Hong Kong, the mobile division of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings, announced in September that it has partnered with instant messaging application developer WhatsApp.... 2012-09-17

US-based private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (CVC) announced in April that it has agreed to buy telecoms assets of City Telecom for HKD5bn (US$644mn), which includes Hong Kong’s... 2012-04-13

Hong Kong keeps its fourth-placed position in BMI's latest telecoms Risk/Rewards Ratings for the Asia Pacific region. No changed were made to any of Hong Kong's scores, leaving it with... 2012-02-27

Japan's NEC Corporation announced on December 20 that it was awarded a multi-million dollar supply contract by a consortium of 14 telecoms operators to build the 10,400km Asia Pacific... 2011-12-23