Chinese customers will be able to access 1000 top-tier hotspots managed by Swisscom. China Netcom operates 400 Hotspots, primarily in northern China, and is anticipated to add an additional 1000 Hotspots before the 2008 Olympics. China Mobile operates 1836 hotspots. Both operators are planning significant capital investments in their WLAN coverage.

International Carriers are hungry to access the China market, especially given the current lack of 3G data services and the heightened excitement leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Jason Liang, CEO of Coordinate Technologies, stated i a press release, ‘It is very exciting to work with Swisscom. As Chair of the WRIX Forum roaming service specification workgroup, Swisscom has played a central role in defining roaming standards within the Wireless Broadband Alliance.’

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The new wireless content unit will initially set up three studios to develop interactive online gaming content. As a unique ODP provider, TechFaith offers the market mid to high end and tailor-made multimedia phones, dual mode dual card phones, smartphones and Pocket PC phones.

Extending this strategy, TechFaith is now adding handsets with interactive online gaming and professional game terminals with phone functionality to its current product portfolio. In addition, TechFaith will engage in gaming operations in the Chinese market and provide original design wireless gaming application and software services to the international market. This will enable TechFaith to gradually evolve from an original developed product provider to an original developed product and content provider. TechFaith’s wireless game terminals will be Windows Mobile based and ultra small PCs will be based on Windows Vista and Windows XP.

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By 2005, the figure reached up to 28.8 billion Yen, increased by nearly 6 times in 3 years. Wireless Advertising has become an important part of Japanese Internet advertising industry. It is predicted that in 2006, Japanese wireless advertising would get a market size of up to 45 billion Yen, continuing its high-speed development trend.

Learn more about online photo Album market in China please read iResearch China Wireless Advertising Market Research Report 2006.

In this respect, there were 1620 official Japanese websites in 2001, and 41093 non-official websites; as of mid 2005, the figure of wireless official websites reached 4,635 and non-official websites got 87372, with the total websites number of over 92000. At present, the number of Japanese wireless websites still keeps a steady growth.

With rapid growth of Mobile TV industry, the main networks are very likely to be combined, which may bring about remarkably change within the value chain. It can be specified as:

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With rapid growth of Mobile TV industry, the main networks are very likely to be combined, which may bring about remarkably change within the value chain. It can be specified as:

From 2007 to 2011, the average annual compound growth rate of the WAP market will be 44%. From 2003 to 2011, the average annual compound growth rate of mobile operator’s income will be 84% and the average annual compound growth rate of service providers will be 57%.

On Analysys International’s research, in 2007, the proportion of flow rate income of non-official portals and official portals is 73:27.

The quick development of wireless businesses will also directly motivate the activity of segments in the industrial chain. Analysys International says the 2008 Olympic Games will become a new income growth region for mobile phone advertisements.

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Undoubtedly, commercial use of 3G network will promote its development remarkably. iResearch Consulting predicted that, as Mobile TV will make a rapid growth in the near future, the number of global Mobile TV users of 2008 would reach 44 million. And it was predicted to amount to 210 million by 2010.

Learn more about mobile TV market in China please read iResearch China Mobile TV Research Report 2006.

According to a report on Sina.com, staff from a business hall at Heilongjiang Unicom say the short message service is provided by a franchiser of Heilongjiang Unicom, so it can not be cancelled at Heilongjiang Unicom’s business hall. However users can ask for cancellation of the service by sending a short message, but in this case they need to pay RMB0.1 as an information fee when cancelling the nuisance service.

As the short message service is started without users’ subscriptions, it is deemed to be spam and unwanted. Heilongjiang Unicom’s service center says that users can cancel the service in two ways. One is to send a short message to cancel for which they need to pay RMB0.1 as information fee, and the other is to cancel it through the manual service counter of Heilongjiang Unicom, which is free but the cancellation won’t be valid until 24 hours later. It seems like a Kafka nightmare where users are stung every where they turn.

Dong Hongyang, a researcher from Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences, is cited as saying that it is unreasonable for the mobile operators to charge the RMB0.1 information fee from users because the service was offered by the mobile operator without the users’ approval. Also, as there is a large base for the mobile phone population, the mobile operators will make big money by charging this amount of seemingly small fee.

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From now on until May 31, 2008, China Mobile’s mobile phone banking users will also enjoy a six months of free mobile phone banking service. A representative from ICBC says that after the unification of the mobile phone banking numbers, China Mobile’s users who are using ICBC’s mobile phone banking service can send a short message to 95588 before they can make various inquiries, transfer an account, remit, and fulfill payment for consumption items and the transaction result will be sent back to them via 95588 short message. In addition, users of ICBC’s message service can receive reminders on their financial details.

ICBC has been improving its mobile phone banking service in recent years, and with the optimization of this service, ICBC’s mobile phone banking service is rapidly expanding. As of October 2007, ICBC saw an increase of 3.084 million new mobile phone banking users, which was an increase of 151% over the same period of last year and brought it total mobile phone banking service user number to 4.7 million.

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Chinese media reports that China Mobile plans to begin the first round of bidding for TD mobile phones in late December or early January of next year when it will purchase about 300,000-400,000 TD mobile phones which will be mainly used for testing and optimizing TD networks and testing the mobile phone performance of each TD manufacturer in preparation for next year’s large scale outsourcing.

According to China Mobile’s plan, the company will spend a total of about RMB3 billion to RMB4 billion on two million to three million TD mobile phones. The majority of the mobile phone orders will be delivered to China Mobile after April 2008.

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