The 2009 Silicon Valley China (SVC) Wireless Conference kicked-off yesterday in Mountain View, CA. Ever curious about mobile telecom in Asia, I dropped in to listen, learn, and do a bit of networking. While there were no major revelations at yesterday’s SVC sessions, it was interesting to hear directly from key players in China’s telecom [...]
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China Mobile’s Mobile Market stumbles out of the gate
Posted in China Mobile, mobile games on Aug 19th, 2009
Technical difficulties rain on China Mobile’s official app store launch Interfax TMT in China is reporting that China Mobile’s new app store – Mobile Market – is off to a bumpy start. According to Interfax’s report (headline above), “technical issues cast a shadow over the official launch of China Mobile’s online application store, Mobile Market” [...]
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Scroll down to read iPhonAsia reply comment to this article … China Mobile calls on operators to hold firm against Apple’s revenue-sharing demands by Cindy Geng Beijing. June 26. INTERFAX-CHINA – A China Mobile employee has called for a united front between the country’s three telecom operators in order to challenge Apple’s precondition on any [...]
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Posted in China Mobile, China Unicom on Jun 6th, 2009
Update – June 10, 2009: Interesting factoid from Ultimi Barbarorum… China Unicom will be building 125,000 base stations in the first 12 months of their W-CDMA 3G network rollout. That’s more 3G base stations than all the operators in Western Europe have rolled out in the 9 years since the 3G wireless standard has been in existence. Update [...]
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Ouch! China Mobile wants 50% of all mobile app revenues
Posted in App store, China Mobile on May 29th, 2009
Developers who build apps for Mobile Market,*(China Mobile’s answer to Apple’s App Store) are in for a surprise. China Mobile will reportedly seek a 50% cut of all Mobile Market sales. TelecomAsia is quoting a Shanghai Mobile (subsidiary of China Mobile) source; “China Mobile wants at least 50 percent of the revenues, and the rest [...]
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