Focus on useful services, mobile firms told, South China Morning Post, 15 Mar 2005

“Mobile operators should focus on exploring revenue opportunities in simple but useful value-added services to customers rather than sophisticated offerings such as video downloads, says Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu…Mr Chung said the focus and core profit of mobile business still lay in voice and communication such as SMS. "They will not be easily outpaced by data services, despite the emerging third-generation services in Hong Kong and elsewhere." China, the world's biggest mobile market by subscriber, generated 1.11 billion text messages during the 10-day Chinese New Year holiday last month.�

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