China Mobile, along with seven international wireless communication service providers, announced at a GSM meeting this week that they will make joint efforts to promote the development of trans-network mobile phone instant communications.

The seven providers are Telefonica Mobiles of Spain, Orange of France, T-Mobile of Germany, TeliaSonera of Finland, TIM of Italy and a GSM operator in India.

The above enterprises said that their purpose was to offer new instant communication services to more than 700 billion mobile phone users across the world.