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Wed, 06/30/2010 - 11:39

Touchmedia ready for 3G revolution - Micky Fung, Touchmedia founder

by Yan Xinyi

Micky Fung, founder of Touchmedia, talks to Interfax about how the nationwide 3G roll out and the increased use of smart phones will impact the company's in-taxi interactive digital screen business.

"We actually feel that 3G mobile [services] complement us very well. ...it's just like when TV came out, people said it would kill movies - but it didn't. People use different things in different ways" - Micky Fung
Micky Fung

Shanghai. June 25. INTERFAX-CHINA - Touchmedia, a Shanghai-based operator of in-taxi interactive digital screens, is ready to defy industry observers who say the nationwide 3G network roll out will deliver a blow to mass-transit advertising companies. Micky Fung, Touchmedia's founder and chairman, told Interfax that the firm plans to adapt its platforms to complement, rather than compete with, 3G functionalities.

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