Liaoning launches mobile newspaper

cctv.com 11-14-2005 14:38

The mobile phone has become an indispensable tool to modern life. People use it, obviously, to make calls, but also to surf the Internet, play games and watch videos. And now, mobile users in North East China's Liaoning Province can use it to read newspapers.

From this weekend, users in Liaoning can subscribe to the "Liaoning Mobile Newspaper" at 5 yuan or less than a dollar a month. It is the first newspaper published through a mobile phone. According to You Wenxiang from Liaoning Daily group, says the latest news from a variety of local newspapers will be sent to the users' cell phones in forms of text, pictures or moving pictures, with real time updated information. Users can tailor the stories they receive, making it something of a personalized, individual newspaper service. You said the wireless platform is going to dominate the "post-internet-era", as it is more suitable for the increased pace at which most of us now live what we consider our modern, normal life!

Editor:Wang Ping  Source:CCTV.com