China's telecommunications industry reorganization will lead to a more balanced market competition, possible lower telecommunication costs and a feast of opportunities for telecom equipment makers, according to the Shanghai Daily.

The telecom reorganization will speed up the fixed and mobile convergence and the convergence of 3G and Wi-Fi on outdoor wireless broadband services, said Lu Guoying, an analyst at CCID Consulting.

Consumers will be able to buy mobile and other telecom lines from the same vendor and have it all on one bill. For enterprises, buying voice, data network and mobile from the same carrier provides the promise of savings as a direct result of the economic leverage gained from paying a huge bill every month.

The reorganization has laid the foundation for the fixed-line phone carriers to launch one-number-for-call services in the mobile sector. Some of China Telecom's enterprise clients have adopted the one-number-in-different-offices service...

According to recently released data, China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) received 694,000 patent applications in 2007. Businessweek reports the 20% jump in patent filings offers a measure of the pace of innovation in a country and a growing recognition that securing legal protection for inventions there is worthwhile.

Businessweek cites a report issued in May by Evaluserve, an intellectual-property analytics company, which showed that over the last two decades, China has taken a variety of steps to enhance its patent system, including creating an online, searchable patent database and a hierarchy of courts for handling intellectual-property disputes.

About one-third of filings for invention patents were made by businesses based outside China, "which clearly suggests that filing in China has become an intrinsic part of most multinational companies'IP strategies," Evaluserve stated...

Businessweek recently reported software piracy rates dropped in 11 Asia-Pacific countries, but increased on average across the region, due largely to a jump in PC sales in China. In cooperation with research firm IDC, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) unveiled the findings of its fifth annual Global PC Software Piracy Study.

They indicated the average software piracy rate in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan and Australasia, increased from 55 percent in 2006 to 59 percent in 2007. This translated into a revenue loss of US$14 billion, up from US$11.7 billion in 2006.

Jeffrey Hardee, the BSA's Asia-Pacific vice president and regional director, says the healthy growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the region could help drive down piracy. Hardee noted that while China's piracy rate dropped by 10 percentage points over the three preceding years leading to 2006, it remained unchanged between 2006 and 2007 because of the increase in PCs shipped in the country. SMBs (small to midsize businesses) are also among the biggest users of illegitimate software...

China currently accounts for less than 10 percent of the global market for the offshoring and outsourcing of services, according to McKinsey. Yet new research at the respected consultancy suggests that by implementing an aggressive strategy to develop the sector and cultivate talent, the country could capture opportunities worth $56 billion a year by 2015.

In the market for the offshoring of engineering services, China has the potential to become an R&D hub, given the country's proximity to potential customers in the Asian semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. While China faces formidable challenges, it can also draw on unique strengths. McKinsey says the country's two million Japanese and Korean speakers, for example, should help it increase its lead in the North Asian market for the "near-shoring" of IT application and BPO services. On the negative side, the country has a dearth of workers who can manage international projects combined with strong English-language skills...

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