Asia Pacific

NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology have again pushed back the signing of a planned merger agreement, reports Telecompaper.

Bangladesh's Grameenphone has announced that its shares will be listed on the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges in the first week of October, reports Cellular News.

ZTE has won a WiMAX deployment contract in Ukraine from Icon Private Equity's portfolio company, Ukraine High Technologies (UHT), notes Cellular News.

Chairman Wang Jianzhou - head of China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers - has continued to forge closer ties with Taiwan's technology sector this week, announcing that China Mobile is to begin working with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to develop next-generation mobile technologies.

Shares in mobile kit vendor Alcatel-Lucent jumped as much as 16 percent amid speculation that the firm could be bought by a Chinese rival, reports Reuters.

Japanese handset vendors NEC, Hitachi and Casio are reportedly mulling merging their mobile operations in a bid to take on the domestic market-leader, Sharp, reports Dow Jones Newswires.

China Telecom - the country's third-largest mobile operator - has reported a 29 percent decline in net profit for the first half of the year due to higher costs at its mobile division, reports Dow Jones Newswires.