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Article: TEXT MESSAGES USE SET TO SOAR
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- April 20, 2001
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AsiaInfo Services
04-20-2001
Text Messages Use Set to Soar
BEIJING, Apr 20, 2001 (AsiaPort via COMTEX) -- obile phone text messages will become a new earner this year for China's telecom operators, but more customer-oriented services are needed to fulfil market potential, according to telecom analysts, as China Daily reports.
Text messages, the most popular value-added mobile telecom service, have been adopted by many young mobile phone users as a fashionable and cost-saving way to communicate.
Compared to mobile phone calls, which charges both the caller and receiver 0.4 yuan (4.8 US cents) per minute, text messages are cheap. Telecom operators charge only 0.1 yuan(1.2 US cents) for each ...