Motorola and Cisco Cooperate to Tap China's Wireless Internet MarketThe rapid development of China's wireless Internet market has aroused great concerns among the world's IT giants, a core technology center, called INVISIX designed especially for tapping the Chinese market by Motorola and Cisco, was formally opened in Beijing May 9.The center will provide IT operators and developers in China and the Asia-Pacific region with testing, authentication and integration for wireless application. China currently has more than 100 million mobile phone users, the past five years saw the number increase by 1.9 fold year-on-year and China has 22.5 million Internet users, with the average annual growth approximating 2.5 fold in the past four years, and has 245,000 websites of various types. China has thus become the world's market where mobile communications and Internet are developing at the fastest pace. According to prediction by an official of the Ministry of Information Industry, China's mobile phone users will number 280 million by 2005, and Internet users 62 million to 80 million by 2002, by then, China is expected to become the world's largest mobile communications and Internet market. China will upgrade its mobile communications from 2G's GSM, to 2.5 G's GPRS and 3G's CDMA. China's wireless application market, which combines mobile communications with Internet, undoubtedly has infinite potential. The INVISIX center, co-established by Motorola, one of global three telecom providers, and Cisco, the world's IP technology leader, is now engaged in GSM and narrow-band CDMA study and super-speed digital Internet application integrating. All Are Equal on China's Wireless InternetChina Mobile lately hosted a seminar on business cooperation models with ICPs (Internet Content Provider).Zhang Yue, a senior China Mobile official, said that China's wireless data telecommunication business has a promising future and China Mobile will gradually adapt to new circumstances. Every member participating in China's wireless Internet is equal, according to Zhang. By PD Online staff member Li Yan |
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