21 Quotes by Duncan Clark

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

China Mobile could change the terms of the deal,

China is a high-maintenance market. It is highly regulated, highly sensitive and difficult to manage from 15 hours' time difference away.

China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

National benefited not only from lower labor costs, but also because it is now closer to where many of the world's mobile phones are made these days, and that is China. Roughly half of the world's research and development, and production of the world's handsets, are in China these days.

You have to adapt to the way you address these undeveloped markets, but there's no problem with penetration.

There has been an expectation of a revaluation, and I'm not sure what the reaction will be to such a limited move,

The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.