Maverick China Research

Analysts from Maverick China Research attended June's Broadband Forum Asia conference. The conference brought together leading companies and delegates to examine the range of broadband content, entertainment, applications, access strategies, service management, and integration that form the backbone of network operators.

In many developing countries, mobile is playing a role able to support economic development in rural areas or to reach less fortunate populations and provide them with a much-needed communication infrastructure and services useful for their daily life and business, from farming to various types of production and services. For more information about Mobile Monday, visit www.mobilemonday.cn.

Maverick China Research is proud to announce a media partnership agreement with Global Leaders for the upcoming Payment China 2007 conference. This event will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Beijing from May 17-18, 2007.

For more details, please visit the conference website at www.paymentchina.com.

This Mobile Monday session covered a variety of location based services (LBS) in China. Presenters in this event included Destinator, ComapssOfChina, and France Telecom. Maverick Co-founder Dave Carini is on the advisory board for the Mobile Monday community in Beijing. In 2006, Mobile Monday sessions have covered a wide range of hot topics in China including Mobile Music, Mobile Advertising, Mobile TV and Video, Mobile 2.0 and Communities, and Mobile Payment. For more information about Mobile Monday, visit www.mobilemonday.cn.

Maverick China Research analysts Dave Carini and Edmund Hung attended Nokia’s Our Mobile Life 2007 event in Beijing today to explore the company’s latest handsets offerings and marketing strategies in China. Invited as guest analysts, Dave and Edmund met with two of the top managers responsible for the new product launches and exchanged ideas about opportunities in both the enterprise market and the super low-end market in China. Although at two opposite spectrums of the handset market, Nokia has targeted both and is succeeding in taking market share from China’s domestic handset vendors.

Maverick co-founder, Edmund Hung, participated in an analyst roundtable event on the development of e-payment in China. Participants included executive members of Yeepay and E-Business Journal, the two co-hosts for the event, as well as several representatives from China’s regulatory bodies and domestic research firms. The general consensus of the roundtable was that the China e-commerce industry is still very young, and that the focus right now is on developing a healthy environment to promote widespread adoption of e-payment platforms; specific companies are not what’s important to discuss at this early stage of development, nor are specific business models (m-payment SPs vs. smartcards vs. Monternet); the most important aspect to the development of e-payment is improving the market environment.

This Mobile Monday session covered mobile applications and platforms available to corporate clients in China. Enterprise software solution companies Zero Global, Silk Road Communications, and Emay.cn were featured at this event. Maverick Co-founder Dave Carini is on the advisory board for the Mobile Monday community in Beijing. In 2006, Mobile Monday sessions have covered a wide range of hot topics in China including Mobile Music, Mobile Advertising, Mobile TV and Video, Mobile 2.0 and Communities, and Mobile Payment. For more information about Mobile Monday, visit www.mobilemonday.cn.

Maverick China Research analysts Edmund Hung and Boaz Rottenberg attended Nokia’s Open Studio event in Hangzhou September 2006 to unveil the company’s latest N-series handsets and music-focused mobile phones. Invited as guest analysts, Edmund and Boaz met with two of the top managers responsible for the new product launches and exchanged ideas about the future development of mobile handsets in China.