Aspire – Aspiring?

Aspire, a joint-venture between China Mobile, Hewlett-Packard and Vodafone was created to build the Mobile Information Service Center (MISC) to serve as the common platform for mobile Internet services. According to China Mobile (HK) Annual Report, a unified MISC platform provides mobile subscribers with mobile data-roaming capability throughout China. MISC also provides a uniform data interface open to third-party service providers. It ensures that all mobile communications networks developed through the platform migrate smoothly when they are upgraded to 2.5G and 3G networks, making them truly forward-compatible networks. – It sounds very aspiring, doesn’t it?