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To: JeffreyHF who wrote (144449)	8/23/2006 7:52:07 AM
From: John Hayman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

China plans mobile TV trials a year ahead of Olympics Tue Aug 22, 1:02 PM ET BEIJING (AFP) - China will next year launch trials of its own technology to enable television broadcasts on mobile phones, with a national roll-out planned ahead of the 2008 Olympics, state media said. Residents in Beijing, the Chinese capital and host of the Games, will be the first to benefit from the digital multimedia broadcasting technology, which will require a chip implanted in handsets, the China Daily reported Monday. China's two mobile telecom operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, are expected to sign agreements with phone makers by the end of the month to buy TV-enabled handsets, the China Daily said. In addition to mobile phones, personal digital assistants and MP4 players will also be able to receive the mobile TV signal, the paper said. The new technology has been developed in China and does not require the payment of any payment fees to international companies, the China Daily cited the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television as saying. China's mobile phone TV market is expected to reach 6.05 billion yuan in 2008, the paper said, citing data from the Xinhua News agency. China has 426 million mobile phone users, eight percent of which are expected to subscribe to mobile TV services in the next five years, the report said.

To: JeffreyHF who wrote (144449)	8/25/2006 9:03:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Jeffrey, in the oil industry, there are often complaints that the common prices offered at service stations [not so common in the USA but common in NZ] shows a conspiracy on pricing. It doesn't, because, as happens, if one company tries to raise their price, the others soon follow, or don't, and the daring one, like a cyclist accelerating away from the pack, is quickly pushed back into line by the headwind of the hordes of consumers shopping around and swapping to a cheaper refueling point. They apparently all set prices in concert, but that isn't necessarily the case, any more than racing cyclists travel in a bunch because they agree to do so. But, it doesn't show that it isn't a conspiracy to set prices, and I know that used to be done and have sat in on a price-setting meeting, albeit not for petrol/aka gasoline. Mobil didn't participate because, being a USA company, they could go to gaol. But suppose tenders for a contract were all at the same price, with a closing date and on the opening, they were all the same apart from one, then one could reasonably suspect that it had been agreed that that company would be the winner of that particular tender. The 6 Musketeers "tender" seems to be more of a conspiracy than a consumer head-wind effect. As you say, they can't have all inadvertently agreed to QCOM's price on 3G. Mqurice