"Ericsson appears calm, but its share of the infrastructure market is continuously shrinking," says Shi Wei, a director of the Institute of Economy System and Management of China National Development and Reform Commission.

An report entitled "The Development of Telecom Software" will be finished before the end of this year by the National Development and Reform Commission, in partnership with the China Academy of Telecommunications Research. It is expected that in the report, R&D in mobile communication software will be listed as one of important sectors where the Chinese information industry can be developed during the 11^th five-year plan.