China Mobile To Test New Internet Service

Written by Tangos on August 28, 2008
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China MobileEarly this week, China Mobile started to test a new Internet service, mspaces.net, which might be a result of China Mobile’s partnership with SoftBank and Vodafone in April this year, and possibly another important Internet service of China Mobile after Fetion.

At first glance, mSpaces.net looks like a customizable homepage, such as iGoogle and Netvibes. You can add various widgets or rss feeds into your home page. Moreover, mSpaces.net also provides 10G private storage space to users, allowing them to write blogs, upload photos, store text messages and multimedia messages (MMS) via phone. When users send text messages and MMS, the platform can copy and store all of them. The service is under private test now, by my quick observation, it is still far from a ready-to-use service.

It is said China Mobile plans to generate revenue from both users premieum subscription fee and online advertising. They will push advertising information to your mobile phone based on user analysis.

The platform also offers mobile application to be installed on your mobile phone, but it is only available on limited models of Nokia and Motorola. Noticeably, among the phone model selection options, you can find a name “Borqs“, which is a open source-based mobile operating system developer backed by GSR Ventures. Borqs is a close partner of Google’s Android.

On China Mobile’s just-released interim report, we can know the performance of its IM and mail service. Fetion instant messenger service has over 111.8 million subscriber by the end of 1H of 2008, making it the third largest instant messenger service in China. The no. of Fetion’s active users is 25 million. 139 mailbox, which enables your to deal with email via SMS, reached 5 million subscribers in June 2008.

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  3. Bruce GAO on August 29th, 2008 10:44 am

    hi,

    good article!!!

    Bruce

  4. lorsaing dhoma on August 29th, 2008 3:04 pm

    hi

  5. Thijs (Shenzhen) on August 29th, 2008 10:57 pm

    I actually never heard about Fetion before. How reliable are those numbers?

  6. Qing on September 2nd, 2008 4:55 pm

    Fetion is seems a good service for users~

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