Mapping license deadline extended
December 23, 2010 Category Uncategorized
Companies including Google and Microsoft have more time to bring their online mapping services in line with Chinese regulations after the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping extended the license application deadline. The bureau plans to launch a crackdown next year against illegal online mapping services in China. “We will give warnings to service providers that fail to get a license by March 31 and will take administrative actions against them after July 1,” the bureau said. That means companies such as Google and Microsoft, which the bureau said have not yet applied for a license, will have an additional six months for their license applications, which the bureau said earlier had to be done by the end of this year. Frost & Sullivan Analyst Ji Chendong said that China has entered its “golden phase” for online map services and next year’s sales revenue will exceed CNY2.5 billion with 150 million users. In September, the bureau gave licenses to 31 companies including Nokia, Baidu, Alibaba, Sina and Tencent. Baidu, DDMap and Google are the major online map providers in China, which together account for more than half of the market share.
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