More
than expected
Wireless giant China Mobile wants to spend more on 3G
terminal subsidies in 2010.
The outfit has tripled the amount of subsidies from the
current year level and is expected to spend $4.4 billion next year. The huge amounts of cash will enable the outfit to push
into the 3G space in the worlds largest economy.
China Mobile has 70 per cent of the Chinese wireless
market but has been taking a caning from China Unicom. The outfit uses its own TD-SCDMA 3G standard but with
that sort of money to spend it is fairly clear that foreign salesmen will be
showing up trying to flog the outfit shedloads of 3G gear.
The company recently launched a line of smartphones
dubbed Ophones based on the TD-SCDMA technology which uses Google's Android
mobile operating system.