Most of these firms are well qualified to support UK and international businesses. As GSM access expands, a potential export market emerges. The UK mobile industry has reached a critical level, a level from where not just technology, but innovation that can maximise employment and applications is much sought after. Some of the major players offer applications such as PC-to-text services to enhance faster and clearer information between managers and their workforce. Many offer features that can support live financial services that let people manage their bank accounts or insurance policies, or to share trades securely from mobile devices.
In such a prospective market, the major Chinese fixed-line and mobile business houses have invested approximately 25 billion American dollars on network infrastructure in the past year alone, considerably more than the whole of Western Europe put together. This goes to show the market potential in China and is amply illustrated by the 1. 3 billion fixed-line and mobile connections in operation there.