China celebrates army via mobile phones
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:16Just in time for tomorrow's 80th anniversary of China's People Liberation Army, mobile phone users can download highlights of the war.
Subscribers to China Unicom, the smaller of the country's two mobile telecom operators, is offering film clips of the Korean War and stirring military anthems for less than ¤1 per month.
'I believe it will be popular since we have so many military fans in China,' company official Yu Peng said.
'We have more than 300,000 pictures of weapons and military figures in our database along with clips of hundreds of movies, such as 'Battle for Berlin', 'Normandy Invasion' and 'Shang Ganling', a movie about the Korean War.'
Customers will also be able to get military news sent straight to their handsets from the army's own newspaper.
