China and India will be the growth engine for the global increase in mobile users, and will account for 60 percent of the predicted 1.2 billion new mobile subscribers over the next five years, according to Global Insight. By 2011 market penetration of wireless services will grow from 34.8 percent to 69.1 percent in China and from 13.4 percent to 31 percent in India, reports TelecomAsia. Another article by TelecomAsia quotes Chinese Information Industry vice minister Xi Guohua as saying that “the network trial of TD-SCDMA mobile phone standard was unconnected to the timing of the 3G license issue and the selection of operators for the network…“The pre-commercial trial of TD-SCDMA has nothing to do with the issuing of 3G licenses,” Xi said at the annual conference of the Boao Forum of Asia held in the southern island province of Hainan.” The article fails to mention whether Xi gave any alternative explanation for the long delay in issuing 3G licenses, and its unlikely his protestations will convince foreign companies and governments who believe that China is delaying awarding the licenses until its TD-SCDMA standard is up to scratch.