(Xinhua via NewsEdge) China's dominant mobile operator China Mobile will integrate its internet services and found a new subsidiary under its controlled unit ASPire Technologies.
According to a Guangzhou-based newspaper, China Mobile will appoint Ye Bing, chief of the customer department of its parent company China Mobile Communications, as the new company's general manager.
The registration work for the new company will be completed within a month, and China Mobile plans to expand its staff to 500 in the first year.
Many industry insiders worry that China Mobile will adjust its cooperation policy with service providers after the new company is founded.
And some even hold China Mobile will begin to do value- added services by itself.
But analysts say that China Mobile still needs to learn from mature service providers in terms of charging mode, industrial chain construction, operation and popularization, and try the convergence of internet services.
An analyst with China International Capital said China Mobile has not severed its data and value-added services to the new company, because it recognizes the hazard of developing value-added services independently as a telecom operator.
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