International investors looking to take advantage of China’s vast telecoms market are faced with a multitude of regulatory restrictions.

The opening up of telecommunications value-added services within the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (CSPFTZ) is an important development for foreign companies.

Although China’s telecommunications markets are developing at a rapid pace, Dr Thomas Hart of the EU-China Policy-Dialogue Support Facility says that overall they are lagging behind developed nations.

Cloud computing is becoming one of the hottest global IT topics.

After two year’s speculation from industry and the public, the world’s largest communications market initiated the commercial deployment of 4G networks late last year.

Just when companies were starting to get the hang of Weibo and other social media platforms, social instant messaging was added into the mix.

Among the challenges of operating in China, one issue that most European companies face with their IT systems and business applications is how to provide their users in China with acceptably fast access to such resources. Time spent waiting for pages to load, or applications…