China Mobile (CHL), the world’s largest wireless carrier by subscriber, has revealed its plan to commence the trial run of its 4G network during World Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai from May 1 to Oct 31, 2010. The company’s 4G service is based on the TD-LTE (Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband technology. Roughly 200 participants and 70 million visitors are expected to assemble at the Expo.   China Mobile has recently selected Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) for the responsibilities of design, construction, installation and integration of communication infrastructure to facilitate the 4G network trial. The TD-LTE network will provide advanced wireless services (including high-definition TV and ultra-fast broadband Internet access) to the visitors at the exposition.   The three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom (CHU) and China Telecom (CHA) are investing heavily in Shanghai to improve the city’s network

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Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing solutions, today announced it has added RADVISION’s 3G-324M stacks to its recently enhanced Vocallo Media Gateway (MGW) solution. The partnership with RADVISION (NASDAQ: RVSN), the premier provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks, enables Octasic to deliver a complete gateway solution for the fast-growing mobile video market.

Horizon Health International Corp. (Pink Sheets:HZHI) launched a product awareness campaign. The company will be

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Spanish Telecom giant Telefonica (TEF) and the second-largest Chinese carrier China Unicom (CHU) have reportedly concluded their cross investment as the companies have finished the $1 billion stake purchase in each other’s stock. As per the agreement terms, Telefonica has bought 693.91 million shares in China Unicom at HK$11.17 (US$1.44) each while China Unicom purchased 40.73 million Telefonica shares at €17.24 (US$25.8) each.   With the completion of this share swap transaction, Telefonica’s stake in China Unicom increased to 8.06% from 5.38%, further strengthening its foothold in the Chinese telecom market. On the other hand, China Unicom purchased 0.87% of Telefonica, making it the first Chinese carrier to invest in a leading European telecom company. Telefonica plans to further expand its stakeholding in China Unicom to 10%.   Additional stake purchase in China Unicom has further consolidated Telefonica’s position as the largest overseas investor in the Chinese ...

Ixia, based in California, is a leading supplier of performance test systems, allowing Internet equipment manufacturers, carriers, service providers, government agencies, and enterprises to effectively test IP networking equipment of all types and sizes. The company today announced an agreement with Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM), the world’s larget technology distributor, to market and distribute Ixia’s industry leading IxChariot network assessment tool to its channel partners in the U.S. and Canada.

IxChariot has been used by thousands of enterprises, government agencies, and industry leading publications to stage performance tests on networks such as wireless LANs, converged networks, and next-generation 3G networks. The highly flexible tool simulates real-world applications to predict system performance under realistic load conditions and provides the ability to confidently assess the performance characteristics of any application running on wired and wireless networks. IxChariot has become essential to many companies and organizations because of the mission-critical importance of increasingly

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Mobile TeleSystems (MBT) announced results for the second quarter with reported earnings of $1.49 per ADR beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 85 cents. Eastern Europe’s largest cellular operator reported revenue of $2 billion, down 23.3% year over year, hurt by the macroeconomic volatility across its markets. Net income dipped 14.6% from the year-ago quarter to $563 million on lower revenue, higher interest expenses and increased handset costs.

On a geographic basis, revenue rose 7% year over year in Russia, 4% in Uzbekistan, 35% in Turkmenistan and 3% in Armenia, while sales declined 8% in Ukraine.

Mobile TeleSystems added approximately 2.8 million customers in the quarter (up sequentially), primarily driven by a 2.3 million net subscriber growth in Russia. This was marginally offset by 155,000 subscriber losses in Ukraine. At the end of the second quarter, the company served approximately 99.5 million subscribers (67.4 million in Russia), up

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NTT DoCoMo (DCM), the largest wireless service provider in Japan, has decided to focus strongly on mobile content offerings, which is a new avenue to increase revenue.

DoCoMo will start implementing LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks - the next-generation (4G) high-speed network technology - in Japan from 2010. The main purpose of deploying the LTE network is to offer mobile content services in the matured Japanese telecom market.

LTE is expected to achieve download transmission speeds of 300Mbps and offers several advantages over other wireless techniques. This includes spectral efficiency, lower costs, and solid integration with other open wireless standards. After the introduction of LTE, the existing 3G FOMA handsets of DoCoMo will become compatible with 3G networks of other service providers. DoCoMo will launch LTE handsets in 2011 that are compatible with its current 3G network, enabling customers to access services even if they are outside an LTE coverage

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L.M. Ericsson (ERIC), the global leader in telecom infrastructure equipment and technology solutions, today won two major contracts in China, together valued at $1.7 billion. Ericsson has entered into 2G/3G framework agreements with both China Mobile (CHL) and China Unicom (CHU), the two larger telecom operators in the country. Under this agreement, both telecom operators will be able to improve the capacity and performance of their 2G networks and accelerate the initial build-up of their 3G networks. China Mobile and China Unicom served more than 620 million mobile subscribers in China, which is just a shade over 40% of the total Chinese population. The contract size of the China Mobile deal is of $1 billion. Ericsson will provide solutions for China Mobile’s network energy optimization and CO2 emission reduction target in addition to expanding the carrier’s GSM/GPRS network coverage and capacity in 18 provinces....

While industry statistics indicate that the wireless phone market is declining globally, emerging markets like China and India are helping handset makers to more than compensate the loss. Users in these countries can now have more data-intensive services on their mobile phones, such as video call and film download through the high-speed 3G networks. China will invest approximately $58 billion in 3G networks over the next three years.

The Chinese government completed the first phase of its plan to upgrade the nation's wireless infrastructure to 3G networks in January 2009. Licenses were issued to the country's largest telecom companies, China Mobile Ltd (CHL), China Unicom Ltd (CHU), and China Telecom Corp (CHA), to build and provide the nation's premier high-speed wireless networks.

The three Chinese players plan to spend over $20 billion this year alone rolling out the initial phases of their 3G deployments.

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Amidst this economic downturn, investors are consistently looking to invest in companies with the ability to “weather” the storm. A frequently mentioned characteristic of the companies deemed qualified to handle the current recession are size, in particular market cap. But how has size held up thus far in this market? The following is a snapshot of the largest stocks, by market cap, in each sector of the S&P 500. Included in this synopsis is their performance since the beginning of 2008, and the current state of each company’s operations. As a note, performance figures were calculated as of the market close on Monday March 23. Furthermore, for a relative perspective, the S&P 500 returned -39.58% in 2008.

Consumer Discretionary

McDonald’s Corporation [MCD: 55.01, -1.05 (-1.87%)]

2008 Consumer Discretionary Sector Return: -48.10% 2008 MCD Return: 8.58% 2009 MCD Return: -13.66% Market Cap: $61.43 Billion...

You’ve probably heard about China’s colossal $600-billion stimulus package intended to jump-start its economy. But chances are you didn’t hear about the new $40-billion initiative by China’s wireless carriers to modernize the national network…

Three of China’s largest wireless carriers are making a mad dash to bring the country’s wireless infrastructure into the 21st century with a widespread upgrade to so-called 3G networks.

3G networks enable high-speed, multimedia services packed with hefty margins for the carriers. Get in now on the program and you’re likely to see healthy returns as the networks come on line.

3G achieved legendary status in the U.S. and Europe when Apple announced a revised iPhone that was 3G compatible.

For example, when AT&T (NYSE:ATT) announced Q2 results on July 23, 2008, its revenues jumped as the exclusive provider of the iPhone 3G. The new phones entered the market

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