re: China Mobile's "Monternet"
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>> Wireless East Meets Wireless West: Japan's i-Mode and China's Monternet
Much of the drive and incentive to make wireless data work is coming from the east. The Asia Pacific market has fared far differently over recent times. Witness the unique and bizarre isolated take up of Japan's NTT DoCoMo with its i-Mode service.
China is keen to keep pace with their Asian counterparts in Japan. Government-owned China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) has recently launched its own version of DoCoMo's vastly successful 20 million plus subscriber service i-Mode. Dubbed the "Monternet" - eliding Mobile and Internet, China Mobile says Monternet will allow all its 'partners' - companies working on content on Monternet - to be given wide access to an "all-round upgraded net system" which includes bundled accounting, a WAP platform and short-message platform.
According to Lu Xiangdong, deputy general manager of China Mobile, 'Monternet' is designed to be a unified mobile Internet operational form of the company. Instead of following traditional telecom operators' practice, it will work in close cooperation with its partners and "place itself wholly and fully at the service of clients for a multitude of ties to be built through the Internet," says Lu.
China Mobile's targets for 2001
* turnover of 140 billion Yuan, an increase of 22 per cent over 2000
* to accomplish 85.00 billion fixed assets investment
* to add a 35.00 million switching capacity for the user, 1,200,000 channels
* to have 30 million new mobile phone subscribers
* 1,500,000 clients on GPRS
* 10 million Monternet subscribers
* volume of SMS to reach 10 billion
* rate of wireless call success rate to reach 98.5 per cent
* wireless call drop rate kept below 2 per cent
* satisfaction rate of service quality above 75 per cent <<
Above from an interesting article in Carriers World (06/12/2001):
Byte Or Bite The Dust: Wireless Operators' Next Holy Grail - Data Revenue
- Eric - |
