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China is the world’s largest mobile communications market. The number of mobile subscribers in China surpassed the number of fixed-line subscribers in 2003. Into 2008, China Mobile continued to be the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers. China Telecom and China Netcom pose a serious threat to China Mobile and China Unicom with their Little Smart PAS services and pending 3G licences. This report provides an overview of the mobile market in China, mobile technologies (GSM, CDMA and PAS), the major mobile players and even the huge and unconventional mobile handset market. China manufactured around 500 million mobile handsets in 2007.

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Mobile communications
  
  • 2.1 Overview of China’s mobile market
    
    • 2.1.1 Mobile Internet
      
    • 2.1.2 Analysis – prevalence of mobile phones in China’s city centres
      
  • 2.2 Mobile statistics
    
  • 2.3 Regulatory issues
    
    • 2.3.1 Price wars
      
    • 2.3.2 Subscriber registration
      
    • 2.3.3 Calling Party Pays (CPP)
      
    • 2.3.4 Share Listing
      
    • 2.3.5 Open Information
      
    • 2.3.6 Manufacturing Quality
      
  • 2.4 Mobile multimedia alliance
    
• 3. Mobile technologies
  
  • 3.1 GSM
    
    • 3.1.1 GSM1x
      
  • 3.2 CDMA
    
    • 3.2.1 U-Max CDMA2000 1x
      
    • 3.2.2 Dual GSM-CDMA services
      
  • 3.3 PAS/PHS
    
    • 3.3.1 Little Smart / Xiaolingtong PAS
      
    • 3.3.2 SCDMA Little Smart
      
    • 3.3.3 Public WLAN
      
    • 3.3.4 WiMAX
      
    • 3.3.5 TD-SCDMA
      
    • 3.3.6 Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile
      
• 4. Mobile handset market
  
  • 4.1 Overview
    
    • 4.1.1 3G TD-SCDMA handsets
      
    • 4.1.2 Mobile handset production licensing changes in 2005
      
    • 4.1.3 Smartphone market
      
    • 4.1.4 iPhone
      
• 5. Major mobile operators
  
  • 5.1 Overview
    
  • 5.2 China Mobile
    
  • 5.3 China Unicom
    
  • 5.4 Other mobile operators
    
    • 5.4.1 China Netcom
      
    • 5.4.2 China Telecom
      
• 6. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Mobile subscribers by operator and annual growth – September 2007
• Table 2 – Mobile subscribers and annual growth – 1995 - 2007
• Table 3 – China Unicom CDMA network statistics – 2007
• Table 4 – Little Smart (PHS) subscriber growth – 2002 - 2007
• Table 5 – China Telecom and China Netcom PHS subscribers –2007
• Table 6 – Mobile phones manufactured in China – 2004 - 2007
• Table 7 – Revenue, CAPEX and market share, China Mobile and China Unicom – 2007

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