- Far EasTone Telecommunications, one of Taiwan's six WiMAX licensees, said that the schedule of its commercial WiMAX rollout will be pushed back to the fourth quarter of 2009, Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported. Previously Far EasTone planned to launch its WiMAX system in the first quarter of 2009, but the plan has been deferred to the end of the year as the telecom will place priority on other projects. Nevertheless, Far EasTone reiterated that its WiMAX network construction will not be compromised and will soon commence.

- According to a March 9 press release by the company, Chinese telecommunications infrastructure engineering and construction service provider CHTL (ChinaTel Group) plans to deploy a WiMAX network in 29 Chinese cities. The project will enlist CHTL partners including CECT-Chinacomm Communications, Yungi Communications Technology, and Chinacomm. In the initial phase the network will be deployed in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Nanjing and is projected to be operational by year-end 2009. Network deployment in the remaining 24 cities - Dalian, Qingdao, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Harbin, Shenyang, Jinan, Fuzhou, Chongqing, Changsha, Haikou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Xian, Changchun, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, Nanchang, Nanning, Lanzhou, Guiyang, and Kunming ?will be carried out in five phases over the next two years.