| China will have 69 million people to use mobile phones
to access Internet by 2004, predicted by Monday's China Business Times.
Considering the trend of convergence between mobile communications
and the Internet, the next few years will see rapid development
in the number of wireless Internet users, said the paper.
The Beijing-based paper predicted that by the year 2004, the number
of mobile phone users in China will be 236 million and Internet
users will reach 120 million.
China is now sparing no effort to promote the upgrade of the current
second generation of mobile telecommunications, the GSM, to the
third generation characterized by a wide-band network and
data transferring, providing great opportunities for the development
of the mobile Internet, said the paper.
China Mobile, the country's largest mobile telecommunications operator,
has been charging ahead with wireless application protocol (WAP)
services. WAP is a specification that provides easy, secure access
to relevant Internet information and other services through mobile
devices in a cost-effective manner.
(Business Times 11/29/2000)
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