China Mobile wants half of app store revenues

China Mobile will reportedly seek a 50 percent cut of all sales from its forthcoming Mobile Market application storefront. "China Mobile wants at least 50 percent of the revenues, and the rest goes to the developer," a source inside China Mobile subsidiary Shanghai Mobile tells TelecomAsia.net. By contrast, Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market claim just 30 percent of revenues.

China Mobile first announced plans to launch an app store in November 2008--China Mobile-controlled Aspire Technologies and the operator's Guangdong branch are presently readying Mobile Market for launch, with the store expected to go live in September. Mobile Market will enable developers to offer applications for all handset operating systems except the iPhone, and will be accessible from both GSM and TD-SCDMA phones. Earlier this month, China Mobile reported its subscriber total is now closing in on the 483 million mark--the current estimated population of the United States is only 306 million.

For more on China Mobile's revenue demands:
- read this TelecomAsia.net article

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