July 17,2010, Beijing, According to Beijing local media, two state-hold communication equipment manufacturers, Datang and Putian both denied the merge rumor for them. The spokespersons of both companies said that they didn't hear about anything about this merge inside company. A Datang senior executive also told the media that they heard such rumor at least 3 years ago.

Dating is a wireless communication technology developer who owns China's TD-SCDMA core technology. Putian is a group of many state-hold equipment manufactures whose most products are in lower level compared to Huawei and ZTE's.