Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Operator Instructions Question by Safa Rashtchy, Piper Jaffray.
Q - Safa Rashtchy
Congratulations on a great quarter. A couple of quick questions. Could you give us some color on how you expect the 2.5G revenues to trend in the coming quarters? You know that it was sequentially down for the reasons you went through. Could you tell us what dynamics you expect to be present in the 2.5G products, both from your side in terms of products, as well as from the industry side? And I have a quick followup.
A - Raymond Yang
Okay. I'll give you a quickly brief on my view on this one. First of all, since Linktone is coming out of the ooze, in a way, so we're relatively small, however we have very good momentum to grow our 2.5G, more especially on WAP business, so we see that Linktone will definitely grow our WAP revenue for the coming quarters, even though, as you understand that, WAP business needs some kind of a, I would say a cumulative effort here. But we are positive on that trend. Overall industry, my view is that overall industry for the WAP growth is kind of slowing down, but due to Linktone's we're growing from a relatively small revenue base and also the overall, I would say operators' algorithm for counting the ranking is more factored into the incremental growth versus the overall revenue, so I think we are going to continue to move our ranking up to a higher level. This is for the WAP. Sorry, just one more time about the overall industry. It's still slowly growing but not seeing too much excitement. Regarding MMS, basically Linktone, ourselves, we have had, I would say, negative residual impact due to the MMS-mixed platform. If you look at the trend, pretty much everybody has got some kind of a hit for that reason, so we are one of them. But in general, we see the trend has hit bottom, starting still flat a little bit and then coming back. So that pretty much reflects the whole industry trend, as well. Java as another product line for the 2.5G started picking up mainly due to China Mobile has enhanced its Java platform. Also the so-called ranking system, so that gives some reasons or create some excitement for lots of companies in that space to come up, including some new names you probably never heard about that. They have been doing that pretty aggressively in the past months. We hold positive view for the Java games in the long term, but we believe that's going to be some kind of, like what you have seen in, for other product lines in the past, it's some kind of up and down, meaning people may see the momentum come for a while and then come down due to regulation reasons and burst the bubbles and then come back. So that's, I'm more talking about a little bit long term for that product line.
Okay, great. Thank you. That's helpful. And a quick followup, you've had a number of initiatives over the past year, certainly over the past 2 or 3 quarters, including the ?Super Girl
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