2G or 3G in china?

[lyndonmaxewell]

Just for interest sake, what is the technology state for China now? 2G or 3G ulitilization for phones? MMS usage level?

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by lyndonmaxewell

Just for interest sake, what is the technology state for China now? 2G or 3G ulitilization for phones? MMS usage level?

Mobile Internet access in China is much more common that in the US. In the Far East this is one of the most common ways of accessing the Internet and they are not reliant on dot Mobi. If anyone is stuck in a time warp it is the West.

Because of the way technology is leap frogged out there 2G for them is probably 4G for us.

[lyndonmaxewell]

Wow.. and i thought that the leapfrogging is in korea/japan. but china? even in Singapore right now, we are still onto 3G.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by lyndonmaxewell

Wow.. and i thought that the leapfrogging is in korea/japan. but china? even in Singapore right now, we are still onto 3G.

I am not sure that they are quite on par with Korea and Japan who are pioneering Mobile Internt TV, but the US always seems to think it is at the cutting edge. It never was with Mobile. UK and Finland were alway ahead of them before being overtaken by Japan and Korea.

I was just counteracting the US perception China runs of 386 technology. There were very few computers in China at that time. Most of their computers have been manufactured and disributed in the last couple of years. It is therefore reasonable to assume that they are pretty up to date.

China is now the largest phone market in the World. They have more phones than most countries have people. Clearly they are not running the system on secondhand hand me downs as many at DNFs would like to have us believe. The last I heard was China had 300M mobile devices, but that information is probably 12 months out of date and an underestimate of 100 Million or so.

Originally Posted by lyndonmaxewell

Just for interest sake, what is the technology state for China now? 2G or 3G ulitilization for phones? MMS usage level?

I found this link which might help:

http://www.itu.int/WORLD2006/marketi.../files/ict.pdf