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Will mobile media be driven out of emerging markets (like China, India etc.)?

Will mobile media be driven out of emerging markets (like China, India etc.)?

During the last 15 years, the real innovation on the internet in terms of applications, technology, and business model have primarily come out of the US. It’s not surprising that’s the case, as the Internet was started there and the US had more internet users than any other country in the world. (Although [...]

3G mobile diversity in China

China’s Ministry MIIT granted three different 3G cellphone licenses on January 7, 2009:
* a TD-SCDMA license to China Mobile (457 million GSM subscribers)
* a wCDMA license to China Unicom (133 million GSM subscribers)
* a CDMA2000 license to China Telecom (43 million CDMA subscribers acquired in 2008 from China Unicom, 216 million fixnet phone subscribers, [...]