Chinese government to standardise mobile phone chargers

By on December 20, 2006 in Devices, News

Link: textually.org: China spells out national standard for cell phone chargers

The Chinese government – in what sounds like a perfectly good idea – is to set a single national standard on mobile phone chargers sold in the country to avoid waste and to lower costs, the Ministry of Information Industry has announced

As Emily points out, this is a wickedly good idea.

I wouldn’t mind a bit of government intervention on this sort of thing. It would, however, kill the (lucrative) charger accessories market wouldn’t it? ;-) But you’d be nigh on guaranteed to be able to find a charger for your phone at work…

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  • loopy

    Latest news in:

    The British government has decided to standardise mobile call prices for all operators and their services [voice, SMS and data access].

    In a move designed to keep prices fair and to reduce the burden of mobile operators filing excessive profit reports, Tony Blair was quoted as saying
    ” We must improve efficiency in the Ministry of finance and by reducing the profit margins of the mobile operators from 98.2% we will have less work in in managing these profit reports, this will be evident on the bottom line for the Ministry of Finance’s operational costs. Making profits is one thing, but for our people to have to count them is another”

    Mr Blair when asked about the expected profitability from the 3G networks was quoted ” Oh, we have no problems with any of that, it will be another 36 years before we see any impact from the investments made by the operators in 3G”

    It was also rumoured that the government will also be looking into banning ringtones other than the type that go ‘bring, bring’ or ‘ding, ding’ – more news on this latest development shortly……………………………………

  • Iris from China

    I wonder why the British government is looking into banning ringtones. Keep me updated please loopy

  • loopy

    Maybe British humour is not international.
    As Monty Python sung some years ago ” I like Chinese, they come up to your knees………………..”

    http://www.lyricsdepot.com/monty-python/i-like-chinese.html

    Nearly Christmas, speak soon.

  • John Campbell

    In Japan the mobile networks already do this. It only really works out because each handset model tends to be produced for just one network.
    What handset manufacturers really need to do is just standardise on mini usb connectors and standard headphone jacks. At least if they care about being easy to use…

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