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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Hard Cell -- Dec. 02, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | China's 1.3 billion population helped the country to rocket from backwater to the world's biggest mobile phone market, with nearly 200 million subscribers, in just a few years. |
 | | China Mobile's average revenue per user in September was $14.25, less than half the level of 1999 and far lower than the $60 to $80 users pay in the U.S. and Japan. |
 | | China Mobile, which controls 70% of the market, is cutting capital spending this year by almost 20% to $6.5 billion. |
| www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501021202-393812,00.html (1006 words) |
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