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China and Korea: Mobile phone powerhouses

Chinese and South Korean mobile subscription growth

Nikkei Electronics Asia provides a decent overview of recent trends in subscribers and technologies in use in both China and South Korea.

The article discusses the current use and plans for both W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in China and Korea as well as China’s proprietary TD-SCDMA. Read the entire article to get to the Korean bits (second half after the discussion of China).

It’s been noted before, but it’s worth repeating: China is the world’s largest mobile phone market by number of handsets, crossing 300 million subscribers in May 2004. And with more than a billion citizens, there’s still a lot of potential upside left in China.

This was written by Bill Day. Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004, at 10:54 pm. Filed under Wireless. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. BillDay.com » Wireless Recap, August 2004 on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 9:49 pm

    [...] ater by a Business Times article on Nokia overtaking Motorola in China and an interesting Nikkei Electronics Asia article on Chinese and South Korean adoption of W-CDM [...]