China's rapidly developing mobile communication market looks every attractive since it offers enormous business opportunities to wireless experts, mobile operators and mobile equipment suppliers, said world-renowned wireless experts at the ongoing 2005 Global Mobile Congress in southwestern municipality of Chongqing.

Martin Cooper, known as the "Father of Cell-phone" for his invention of world's first portable cellular phone, said that people around the world care a lot about the rapid growth of the mobile communication market in China. Anyone involved in mobile communication technologies will take great interest in China's mobile phone market, since China offers them bright prospects of rapid growth, acknowledged Cooper.

Norman Abramson, inventor of Aloha Protocol, a key internet technology, said China's mobile communication market was enormous for people from home and abroad. Abramson also said China won't have to follow the steps of West Europe and America in technology development since the country's huge needs have the final say in the choosing of technologies.

China had 714 million phone subscribers by the end of August 2005, with an annual growth of 100 million in recent years, said Hu Weiyi, deputy secretary general of the China Institute of Telecommunications, adding that 101 million Chinese have access to Internet.

The 2005 Global Mobile Congress, held from October 10 though 12, has allured more than 130 mobile experts, operators and equipment suppliers such as Martin Cooper, Arlene Harris, First Lady of Wireless, Peter Stavroulakis, Chief Architect of Athens 04' Olympic Network, and Li Shihe, Father of China's homegrown third generation (3G) standard, time-division synchronous code-division multiple access (TD-SCDMA).

The Global Mobile Congress, first held in Shanghai in 2004, has been an annual event ever since.

(Xinhua News Agency October 12, 2005)