That is why wait-and-see approach to wireless may not be such a bad strategy, said Aaron Dobrinsky, chief executive of GoAmerica Communications, a company in Hackensack, N.J., that designs mobile Internet systems for wireless carriers and other kinds of companies.
There will probably be nearly 160 million cell-phone users in China by 2003, when the new 3G mobile Internet systems begin to hit the market.
But until last year, he ran iMode, the mobile-Internet system he invented in 1999 for NTT DoCoMo, the operator that commands half of Japan's market for mobile phones.
This is what Apple has done with the iPhone, and it's what DoCoMo did with its proprietary iMode mobile-Internet system, notes Philip Sugai, a marketing professor at the International University of Japan who studies mobile-phone-consumer behavior: "The manufacturers have to figure out how to address their cost inefficiencies, but Android gives them a very simple open-source key to work with".
Network virtualization is embodied in the Internet mobility management, network formation, network resource management, network communication, etc. Mobile Internet virtual system is shown in Fig. 1.
The mobile internet needs capital, payment systems and wireless capacity.
Firstly, although a 3G system for mobile internet is in place across the island, Cuban cell phones are prevented from accessing it (only those roaming from foreign networks can do so).
Since the Group has been in the related mobile phone industry for decades, and the potential for mobile phone related business development is surely enormous and sustainable, mobile phone operating system and mobile internet are the major key business areas the Group is interested in.
Google has also moved into mobile internet with its mobile phone operating system Android, and has moved into offline advertising in the US in TV, print and radio.
