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China Mobile released some stats for the last year, which because of the carrier’s scale impress. Let’s briefly go through them:
- Last year, China Mobile subscribers sent 607.1 billion text messages, up more than 100 billion over the operator’s 2007 SMS totals.
- The total subscriber count is now closing in on the 464 million mark – meaning that CM holds a significant share of China’s 650 million+ mobile subscriber base.
- China Mobile customers purchased 76 million full-track music downloads in 2008.
- Another 41.5 million paid for mobile newspaper content, up a third over 2007 totals. At the moment, the China’s leading carrier is offering 110 different news periodicals.
Impressive, don’t you think?
[Via: textually.org]
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Dusan Belic
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.
