[00:02.80]Unit19 Communication Lesson1 Telecommunications [00:09.55]21st Century Mobile Phones [00:12.69]The latest research done [00:14.40]on the mobile phone industry [00:15.94]shows that China is now ahead of the USA [00:18.68]as the world's largest mobile phone market. [00:21.73]In fact, it was recently reported [00:23.56]by the Ministry of information [00:25.36]that one in every four Chinese had a mobile [00:28.56]phone at the end of 2004. [00:31.30]A decade ago,only business people had mobile [00:33.83]phones and they were large [00:35.65]and heavy with bad reception. [00:37.83]They were also expensive.Compared to those, [00:41.10]what we see now are new phones [00:42.76]with superb reception, which are light [00:44.98]and small to carry. [00:47.08]Perhaps it was this improved technology [00:49.21]and smrt look that helped mobile phones break [00:51.89]into the mass market, [00:53.48]but th main factor is price. [00:56.02]As demand for mobile phones has increased, [00:58.39]the cost of the phones and calls has fallen, [01:01.29]making mobile phones more accessible [01:03.44]the the average person. [01:07.59]In China, the Ministry of Information [01:09.98]has reported that the number of mobile phone [01:11.89]users has already reached 296 million. [01:15.67]