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China mobile 1. There are strong ties between executives and the government. Enterprise senior executives enter the government for policies and resources, while governmental officials enter enterprises to materialize their economic profits earned while in the position. These people have little incentives to develop their companies’ brands despite having access to vast resources and political pull, since their career is tied to the state, not the vagaries of the marketplace (we are the champions, 2013). 2. In the 3G market, China Mobile's market share shrank from 72 percent in 2009 to 63.41 percent in March 2013 (Cai, 2013). In the 3G transition, China seems to have fallen behind because the Chinese government did not grant any 3G licenses until January 2009. 3G services have been available in China for only a few months. But the mobile network operators and related companies have prepared for mobile data services for years (Zhang & Liang, 2012). China Mobile uses a homegrown 3G network standard that is not supported by as many international handset makers (Bloomberg business, 2012). Global chipmakers and phone manufacturers are reluctant to design components for a technology that looks to be a dead end (Technology, 2012). 3. Only China Mobile offers 4G services currently. It has already set up 4G networks for trial use in 15 cities (Cai, 2013). 19% of wireless connections in the US are expected to be on 4G networks by the end of the year, less than 2% will be on 4G connections in Europe (Electronics weekly, 2013). 4. China Mobile is by far the country’s largest carrier with 655.4 million mobile users, more than triple Unicom’s user base. That’s mostly because the government mandates that China Mobile cover rural areas, a standard to which China Unicom or China Telecom are not held (China economic review, 2012). 5. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) says operators invested RMB 80 billion (US$11.71 billion) in 3G