China’s mobile Internet users may
more than double within five years as smartphones that can
browse the Web and download music become more affordable, Lee Kai-fu, the former head of Google Inc.’s China division, said.
The number of people accessing the Internet on their mobile devices in China may grow to 800 million within three to five years, from about 300 million now, Lee said today in an interview at the Beijing headquarters of Innovation Works, the technology business incubator he set up after leaving Google.
Lee’s company is investing in a mobile-software maker and 11 other businesses in the country to benefit from booming demand for Web technology. Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest maker of personal computers, expects products aimed at the mobile Internet market may comprise as much as 20 percent of Lenovo’s sales in five years, President Rory Read said in April.
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