Duncan Clark Quotations

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

China Mobile could change the terms of the deal,

China is a high-maintenance market. It is highly regulated, highly sensitive and difficult to manage from 15 hours' time difference away.

China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs, but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

You have to adapt to the way you address these undeveloped markets, but there's no problem with penetration.

There has been an expectation of a revaluation, and I'm not sure what the reaction will be to such a limited move,

The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

Users aren't interested in text messaging services anymore, which was cheap for these companies to develop.

Right now, they give about 85 percent of value-added content revenues to the portals. They could try to change that deal.

The move was priced into Chinese Internet stocks and there has been some appreciation in anticipation of a revaluation. If anything, the stocks may go down slightly right after the news because the revaluation was small.

The missionaries are losing out to the merchants. While the bigger media groups are not allowed to run independent print media or television channels, the Internet companies are already here. You can participate in China, but there are strings attached.

You see a spectrum in China between more sophisticated, coastal cities, where people are more responsive to more emotional stuff, and the inland areas - the sort of second-, third- and fourth-tier cities and towns - which are more price-driven.

It's been a great education. These effects aren't going to go away.

Taking names down will not only increase AEPU/Operating Expenses, but could also potentially eliminate a large number of customers -- who like the convenience of anonymous SIM cards for whatever reason.

They want to have leverage over the activities of foreign companies.

They have raw talent and the ability to throw people at a problem. It's hard to match.