China Mobile supports Symbian Foundation

China Mobile and Symbian Foundation has announced an agreement to collaborate on a series of key initiatives to improve the mobile ecosystem in China and to stimulate the development of the market for CCMC's locally developed 3G network standard, TD-SCDMA. The partnership also marks Symbian's Chinese website launch, broader focus on the Chinese market and China Mobile’s determination to support the Symbian Foundation.

The first partnership initiative is the simplification of Symbian Signed testing services for developers submitting applications to CMCC's newly launched application store, Mobile Market. The inclusion of Symbian Signed services will allow CMCC to provide mobile developers with a one-stop facility for testing, signing and publishing their Symbian-based applications. Currently, more than 50% of Mobile Market's 2,000 applications are based on the Symbian platform. Mobile Market will also support applications published via Symbian's new application publishing programme, Horizon.

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