Mobility and Mobiles in China

Mobile telecommunications will play an increasingly important role in communication and information exchange in every part of the world. Europe took the world by surprise when developing and offering the GSM standard, which still maintains a dominant position. The next momentous development took place in Japan where mobile Internet (i-mode) became a very successful paradigm for using mobile handsets. Today China is on the verge of becoming the biggest single player in all aspects of mobile telecommunications – in number of subscribers, in manufacture of handsets, as operators, and as contents providers. This note highlights some of the topics and issues that were discussed at the workshop ‘Mobility and Mobiles in China’ held in
Stockholm, Sweden.