Li Pin
12.13-12.19.2002
WEEKLY MARKET NEWS:
By the end of
Oct 2002,
Total wireless subscribers in the world are 1.1 billion. And GSM subscribers are 763.7 million and CDMA subscribers are 136.6 million.
Among GSM
763.7 million subscribers, GSM 900 is 407.2 million, GSM 1800 is 89.1 million,
GSM 1900 is 19 million and GSM 900/1800 is 248.4 million.
And if by
region, Asia Pacific is 292.6 millon, Europe is 375.8 million, North America is
16.8 million and South America is 4.7 million.
http://www.gsmworld.com/news/statistics/substats.shtml
2. An information from Ministry of information industry:
by November 2002, the total Chinese telephone subscribers is 412.99 million,
and mobile phone subscriber is 200.31 million and landline subscriber is 212.68
million.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-16/1526156144.shtml
Chinese version
This news
said, the end of November 2002, the VP of SOHU abdicated and then joins TOM,
and in the first 10 months, TOM had 15 million RMB incomes from SMS per month,
and SOHU just had 9 million. And the top three portal website all had around 10
million RMB income from SMS per month.
And for SOHU
and TOM, both of them develop their SMS union, it means like a personal website
join the union, and then SOHU put its SMS pages link to the personal website,
and give the payment to the owner of the personal website. Now, SOHU and TOM
each has around 50 thousand members.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-16/1428156133.shtml
Chinese version
4. A news said that: China Internet traffic volume
already get the No. 2 in the world in the past first 6 months. US is the #1,
42.65%, and China is #2, 6.63%, and Japan is #3, 5.24%.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-15/1637156009.shtml
Chinese version
5. Strand Consults said: in Europe, now the Ringtone download service and Logo download service will get 39 % of all mobile VAS. And in 2002, Ringtone and download service and logo download service had 625 million US dollars income, and the total Mobile VAS will get 1.5 billion US dollars income. But in the future the Ringtone and Logo download service market share will reduce, and when 2005, its market share will just have 2.7%.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-16/1644156167.shtml
Chinese version
6. Dec 16,2002. China Mobile, 13 websites and China music copyright community sign an agreement. It is about download the ringtone from the website. Every user download a ringtone from the website successful, the website should pay 20% copyright fee.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-17/0721156184.shtml
Chinese version
HONG KONG, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Relaxed rules for registering Web site names in China are likely to spark a surge in applications, including from foreign companies previously barred from using the .cn designation, China Internet watchers said
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021217/tech_china_internet_2.html
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- The number of Internet users in China had expanded to 58 million by the end of October, China's state media report, citing estimates by the China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021218/2303001176_1.html
Aims to be Leader in Home Entertainment Service Market - Issues Guidance for Fiscal 2002 & 2003
SEOUL and NEW YORK, Dec. 18
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Korea Thrunet Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: KOREA - News; the
"Company" or "Thrunet"), a major provider of broadband
Internet-access services in Korea, today announced that the Company will launch
a new service, "On-TV", that will allow the Company's broadband
Internet subscribers to view a variety of high-density multimedia content from
the Internet on their TV screens rather than PC monitors. "On-TV,"
which will commence in February 2003, is the first step in Thrunet's plan to
become a leader in the Korean home entertainment service market, and will
further diversify the Company's revenue streams and solidify its position as a
major broadband Internet access player.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021218/lnw015_1.html
Over 80% users like accepting pay for the Internet services.
46.63 want to pay less than 10 RMB for the service per
month.
31.90% want to pay 10-30 RMb for the service per month.
1.23% can pay over 50 RMB per month.
39.51% like paying for the E-mail box.
12.35% like paying for download ringtone and Logo.
12.96% like paying for download software.
11.32% like paying for the education.
37.04% wish to pay by mobile phone.
33.33% wish to pay by bankcard.
19.75 hope they can pay by landline phone.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-19/1104156741.shtml
Chinese Version.
So in the future, the Chinese people they can buy Ping’an
insurance by their mobile phone.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-19/0949156704.shtml
Chinese version.
This week I often chat with Suzanne about our product, and she send me some translations for check, so I check them already, and I made comments and errors changing pages to her, and I hope she can check all my change carefully, because I thought now both of us work hard for the IQ test and hope finish it fast, but still need careful, be careful much better than re-work.
This week I also spend much time on Translation of the 21 pages of personal report.
Chinese Simplified version
This week since Suzanne focus on the Simplified version, so Wednesday and Thursday I also focus on it, and finished 50 questions pages and Tech support pages already.
About the account that need my
friend try SMS
This week I also chat with my friend, and he gave me his account 3 already, and then I chat with Rose also, and gave her the account #, and what is the plan.
Other:
This weekly main I focus on the IQ test, because it is our first important task. And other things I also did is: attend weekly meeting and update some new things to my training site.