China Mobile wants at least 50% of revenues from app store

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China Mobile intends to take not less than 50% of revenues from each application sold at it upcoming mobile app store dubbed the Mobile Market, a source from China Mobile's Shanghai subsidiary said.rn"China Mobile wants at least 50% of the revenues and the rest goes to the developer," the source told Telecom Asia.rnChina Mobile, the dominant mobile operator in China with 483 million subscribers, is obviously more ambitious than its foreign rivals. Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft and Vodafone, which are either running or planning to open a mobile app store, all reportedly give developers 70% of the revenues. Orange is reportedly willing to negotiate the revenue split according to the popularity of the apps submitted to its Orange Application Shop.rnThe Mobile Market, now being developed by China Mobile's majority-controlled JV Aspire Technologies and Guangdong Province subsidiary, is likely to go live in September, the source said. It will allow developers to put out apps for all operating systems except the iPhone OS, such as Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian. The Mobile Market will be accessible from both GSM and TD-SCDMA phones.