While some companies around the world are responding to the financial crisis with job cuts, the newly issued 3G licenses in China have caused Ericsson to plan a hiring spree of several hundred new employees in China in 2009.

China-based Huawei Technologies, a global telecommunications network solutions supplier, has joined the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, an environmental protection organization in the information and communication technology sector.

Huawei Technologies, a well-known Chinese telecom company, has been accused of illegally employing a large number of Chinese workers in India without proper work permits and not paying income tax to the Indian Government.

Just days after Hong Kong announced enhanced policing of telemarketers who annoy people with pre-recorded telemarketing telephone messages using a "missed call" tactic, China's Ministry of Information Industry says it too is now probing these activities.

Ericsson and United Nations Development Programme have signed an agreement to explore ways for mobile telephony and networks to improve access to health, government, education and financial services in rural China.