- Yang Hua, Secretary General of the TD-SCDMA Alliance, has revealed that China Mobile's imminent tender for second-phase TD-SCDMA trial network is expected to cover up to about 80 cities. Hua also claimed that the number of subscribers is projected to top 20 million by year-end 2008 if TD-SCDMA successfully takes off in the first quarter of 2008. The first-phase TD-SCDMA trial network covers merely eight cities.

- Japanese mobile communications operator IPMobile has filed for bankruptcy protection on October 30, following the announcement on October 29 to shift its focus from TD-CDMA to Chinese homegrown TD-SCDMA technology, Jiji Press reported. According to Chinese-language China Business News, the bankruptcy was attributed to IPMobile's failure in securing the capital injection from Hong Kong telecom operator Distacom Group. IPMobile was required to begin operations within two years after the company obtained a telecom license in November 2005, as stipulated by the Japanese government. The license is due to expire on November 9, 2007.

- At PT/Wireless & Networks Comm China 2007 held in Beijing from October 23 to 25, Chinese telecom equipment supplier ZTE rolled out a batch of TD-SCDMA mobile phones, codenamed ZTE U89 and ZTE U980, as well as a TD-SCDMA USB modem MU318. ZTE U89, as reported in an Asia Express dated October 19 2007, is the industry's first TD-SCDMA mobile phone leveraging the MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) standard. Moreover, ZTE U89 features the additional capability of mobile TV. Dual-mode dual-standby ZTE U980 supports both TD-SCDMA and EDGE technologies and boasts the highest roaming frequency in the industry, according to ZTE. Meanwhile, the MU318 data card, claimed to be the first TD-SCDMA USB modem worldwide, is designed with the capability to offer ubiquitous Internet access.