Daily News November 21, 2011

US House of Representatives seeks to cage Chinese telecoms ‘gorilla’

http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2011/11/18/house-of-representatives-seeks-to-cage-chinese-telecoms-gorilla/

Swedish Networks Set Up Mobile Payments Joint Venture

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/51887.php

VimpelCom Plans Europe Stock Listing in Second Half of 2012, Lunder Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/vimpelcom-plans-stock-listing-in-europe-next-year-lunder-says.html

China Mobile to Deploy 10-20K TD-LTE Base Stations in H1 2012

http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/archive/article/51460/china_mobile_to_deploy_10_20k_td_lte_base_stations_in_h1_2012

China Mobile says total subscribers rose to 638.89 million in October

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-chinamobile-idUSTRE7AK03820111121

Amazon may launch a smartphone in Q4 2012: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/18/us-amazon-research-citigroup-idUSTRE7AH1CF20111118

Thailand may relax foreign ownership rules for the nation's telecom sector
http://www.telecomasia.net/content/thailand-may-relax-foreign-ownership-rules

Market Scale of China Mobile Internet Grows to 10.83 Billion Yuan in Q3 2011, Showing Huge Development Potential

http://www.iresearchchina.com/view.aspx?id=9254

Visa announces SMS banking service for emerging markets
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/visa-announces-sms-banking-service-for-emerging-markets/19530/

Orange to host the MVNO Ortel Mobile on its network in France

http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp111118en.jsp

Express from Sprint now available for $19.99, it’s a QWERTY candybar and 

runs Android
http://www.unwiredview.com/2011/11/18/express-from-sprint-now-available-for-19-99-its-a-qwerty-candybar-and-runs-android/

Mobile data to push KDDI's LTE network to the limit by 2014
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/mobile-data-to-push-kddis-lte-network-to-the-limit-by-2014/19528/

Docomo moves to address mobile data surge
http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/docomo-moves-to-address-mobile-data-surge/19474/

Virgin Mobile Grants License to Operate MVNO in Mexico

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/51885.php

Malaysia to Host Southeast Asia’s 1st TD-LTE 4G Experience Centre and Test Lab

http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/press_center/news/201111/t20111118_263850.html

Q3 2011 Market Scale of China Online Payment Reaches to 615.5 Billion Yuan

http://www.iresearchchina.com/view.aspx?id=9255

iTunes App Store Begins Accepting RMB Payment

http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/archive/article/51461/itunes_app_store_begins_accepting_rmb_payment