Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 16:03 GMT
So...its £3.50 subscription with 4.5p per minute on video! *cough rip off Britain*. Guess things are done differently in China...and alot better it seems.
Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 16:03 GMT
The only way to have the notional free market so beloved of Economists is to have iron control over the market to avoid gaming of the system and monopoly. The out and out fraud which is built into US capitalism such as naked short selling and the sort of bullshit perpetrated by the Enron criminals would lead to a bullet sandwich in China.
Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 16:03 GMT
Given that the number of visitors to the Olympics whose handsets are TD-SCDMA capable will be as near zero as makes no odds, the whole thing is just wind-baggery and empty posturing of the highest order. But that seems to be all the PRC's Communist government is about, these days.
Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 16:17 GMT
It was subsidised to increase take-up. RTFA...
Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 04:00 GMT
They bought 3 movies and a copy of Vista for $10 from the guy with the stand down by the corner and he threw in a G3 license for free!
Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 04:00 GMT
'So...its £3.50 subscription with 4.5p per minute on video! *cough rip off Britain*. Guess things are done differently in China...and alot better it seems.'
Maybe you would like to work for the average Chinese wage then ? May seem cheap, but as a percentage of average monthly income I bet it isnt.
Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 04:00 GMT
and how much does the average person in China get paid?
Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 17:38 GMT
Everything is a bargain if you work in China and get paid state wages or Euro wages. A 5 star restaurant dinner costs no more than 10 - 20 USD. That's a bargain!
Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 21:24 GMT
7.00 USD = 48.5870 CNY
Average wage in China (circa 2006): 1,750 yuan a month
Average Wage Software engineer in China (circa 2005): £6,998
In PR of China, software engineers you!
Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 10:29 GMT
"the whole thing is just wind-baggery and empty posturing of the highest order. But that seems to be all the PRC's Communist government is about, these days."
Now all they need is to learn how to quietly pension off corrupt officials instead of executing them and they'll be just like our glorious western governments.
Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 15:55 GMT
Just what we needed, another mobile standard that really doesn't do anything new in the world... -.-
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