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According to sources close to Taiwan handset makers, China is expected to soon announce a set of enforcement rules to liberalize its licensing controls on manufacturing and sale of handsets.
Earlier in October 2007, China’s State Council decided to lift the licensing control, but the ban is still in force due to a lack of enforcement rules.
Last week, officials from China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) reportedly held a meeting in Shenzhen to discuss details of the enforcement rules in order to facilitate the liberalization process.
Under the proposed enforcement rules, domestic and foreign handset makers or vendors will only be required to apply for permissions for the handsets they plan to introduce into the China market without an operating license. Manufacturers’ facilities and products will, however, need to meet inspection and testing requirements and the vendors will need to guarantee the quality of their products and assure to provide after-sales services.
The end result could be an increased competition in the China handset market as domestic vendors, who currently sell white-box handsets without a license, will be able to legalize their operations…
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
