Outlook on Chinese Mobile Industry

Over the past few years the Chinese Mobile Industry has witnessed a major revolution. In fact, China has emerged as one of the few countries in the world that continued to enjoy steady growth despite declining global shipments of mobile handsets. Today China is the world's largest mobile communications market. In fact, the ratio of mobile subscribers in China has surprisingly crossed the ratio of fixed-line subscribers in last few years.

Looking at the present scenario, China has even emerged as the world's largest mobile phone manufacturing base. Today China is one of the few countries in the world that are differentiating themselves from their competitors, with enhanced manufacturing capabilities and highly developed product development strategies, to produce mobile models with value-added features and pioneering designs. In fact, the issue of long awaited 3G license is just one of the few examples that have helped China emerge as one of the world's major 3G mobile makers.

If we study the recent statistics, in the first quarter of 2008, the total mobile phone shipment in China reached 134 million units, which was 34.5% higher than the previous year. Apart from this, the subscriber ratio of mobile service also reached a new height touching 480 million at the end of the first quarter of 2008, which has increased roughly 20 million in comparison to the statistic data at the end of last year. Besides this, the most interesting trend that gained enormous popularity in recent years has been content usage. As per the latest research conducted by independent body, in 2008 mobile subscribers sent 502.7 billion SMS messages, which was surprisingly 42.3 percent high from 2006 statistics.

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