China Unicom's CDMA network needs only a software upgrade to become CDMA2000. It takes a few months to do.

It's safe to assume that the Chinese government will have whatever access it needs to this information to help with investigations.

This software captures all the details of what their needs are. It's really the starting point of the whole development process for a new application.

We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine. The speed is crazy.

All new technologies go through the same hassles before they are mature and stable.

I wouldn't rule out commercial uses either, though China Mobile is unlikely to recklessly sell sensitive information on its high-end customers, given how much effort it expends to keep them happy.