China and Korea: Mobile phone powerhouses

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.