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Chapter Nine
1. The source is Informa Telecoms & Media in London.
2. The source is iResearch in Shanghai.
3. The source is 21 Communications in Shanghai.

4. The source is Juniper Research.
5. The source is the Chinese tech market researcher CCID Consulting.
6. China has its own homegrown 3G standard called TD-SCDMA and
does not use the competing standards from the United States and Europe.
7. In 2006, Oriental Wisdom churned out $3.2 million in revenues and
$60,000 in profits.
8. The product ideas are suggestions from Geoffrey Handley, a director at
the mobile marketing agency The Hyperfactory in China.
9. She backed both Robin Li of Baidu and Jack Ma of Alibaba.
10. Prevalent in China, BREW-designed services have been downloaded by
as many 3.4 million wireless phone subscribers on 130 mobile phone models
for some 43 million applications or uses since 2004, when BREW began to
gain momentum, according to Qualcomm. Globally, software developers
have rung up more than $1 billion in worldwide sales from products and
services that use BREW, which became available in 2001.

Chapter Ten
1. The source is CCID Consulting, a Chinese information technology
market research and consulting company.
2. The source is CCID Consulting.
3. PingCo has boldly—some might say foolishly—bypassed this powerful
Chinese phone network by going over a channel commonly known as General
Packet Radio Service (GPRS) for transmitting e-mail, data, and short-text
messages over wireless connections.

4. The country’s distant second-running mobile operator, China Unicom,
also entered the race in early 2007 with a Shanghai tryout of its competitive
service, Chao Xin.

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