Blogging Shanghai - Mobile Asia Expo
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 9:17AM
Robert

Fifteen minutes after opening time. No sign of speakers, but plenty of people looking for seats.  The hall is about - about 500 people.

 

Plus nine security personnel - of the seven keynote Chinese speakers this morning, five are government officials, including the vice mayer of Pudong.

 

There's no shortage of sponsors, either. I count 32, topped by China Mobile. Only half a dozen are Chinese, a few Koreans and Japanese and the rest refugees from Europe and North America.

 

Here comes GSMA Chairman Franco Bernabe.

 

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