reinharden

China Mobile, Apple Butt Heads Over iPhone

I suppose to be fair I should note that you said China Unicom doesn't know GPRS. So that they have 100 million GSM subscribers might not be relevant.

That having been said, China Unicom offers GPRS service in 250+ cities across China and claims that they'll have it enabled in "all" cities prior to the 2008 Olympics.

Nearly all current GSM base stations are capable of supporting GPRS. For most GSM service providers, it's just a matter of logistics and provisioning...which are not admittedly not necessarily easy matters in the countryside.

But I'm not convinced you were actually distinguishing between GPRS and GSM in your article since you were comparing to CDMA...

reinharden

China Mobile, Apple Butt Heads Over iPhone

You might want to do some fact checking.

China Unicom operates both a CDMA and a GSM system. They have 100M+ GSM subscribers and a substantially smaller number of CDMA subscribers.

I didn't bother digging up the most recent numbers, but this article from the summer of 2006 discusses their GSM subscriber base reaching 100 million:
www1.cei.gov.cn/ce/doc...

Of course, that you're using phrases such as "The odorless-feces-factor" pretty much makes it clear that objectivity and facts aren't really the goal of your article. So sorry if I've harshed your buzz by interjecting inconvenient and likely unwanted facts. ;-)

reinharden