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Chinese mobile giant emerges - Company Business and Marketing
An alliance between China's electrics giant, Haier Group, of Qingdao; CUP Telecom Holdings of Hong Kong and Sendo plc of Birmingham could become the greatest threat yet to the mobile handset dominance in China of Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens.The new alliance, which was finalized last month, has been given a further boost through strategic investments by Microsoft Corp. Some commentators believe Redmond, Washington company will use Haier's handsets to introduce its Stinger smart phone operating system into what is poised to become the world's largest mobile phone market this year, surpassing the United States.
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Consultants BDA China, of Beijing, forecast 236 million mobile subscribers in China by 2004, of which 69 million will be mobile Internet users. And it might not only be in China that the impact of the alliance is felt.Haier, China's top appliance maker and best known domestic brand name, racked up sales of nearly S5 billion last year. The company reports that it has 53,000 sales outlets in over 160 countries, 15,000 of which are in China."Haier is by far the most reputable brand in China for the quality and after-sale services of its products, and it has an extensive distribution channel that none of other [mobile handset] players have," said Jim Lin analyst at Digital Practice, in Beijing... You can read more.
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