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iPhonAsia comment: China Mobile has made no secret of their intent to build their own app store and promote their own value added services (VAS) platform (Monternet), their wireless music services platform (www.12530.com)  and their brand new Web 2.0 platform - similar to MobileMe.  China Mobile  made 27% of their revenue in 2008 through their VAS and they don’t want any [...]

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Here (below) is iPhonAsia’s comment to Ryan Barnes’ article China Mobile: Tea Leaves Give Mixed Reading, published on Seeking Alpha, November 27, 2008.  Read > HERE Nice article Ryan …  I thought it was interesting to read recent comments from China Mobile’s CEO re Apple’s App Store … Wang Jianzhou gave Apple and Steve Jobs kudos [...]

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iPhonAsia Comment: What is “customization” in the context of the wireless handset market? Mobile operators often make direct purchases from handset manufacturers (ZTE, Nokia, Apple?) and then brand (carrier’s logo) and customize the phones to make them more “appealing” (or so the carrier’s like to believe) to consumers or more directly support the carrier’s value added [...]

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Huawei developing software to enhance telecom carriers’ value-added services on next-generation (high speed) networks. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… It is no secret that China Mobile wants to drive handset owners’ usage of the Monternet value-added services platform (music, mobile TV, video, search, etc.). To aid China Mobile and other carriers, Huawei recently announced that they will launch a new division [...]

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[digg=http://digg.com/apple/Two_China_carriers_for_iPhone] Update 5/29/08: iPhonAsia has reviewed numerous current reports which indicate that the newly formed China Uniom/Netcom will receive W-CDMA 3G when telecom restructuring dust has settled (in 3 to 18 mos). If this proves true, China Unicom may become an alternative to China Mobile as a partner for Apple (iPhone) in China.  It may also be [...]

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