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Munich customs investigators on Tuesday advised tourists to the Czech Republic to beware a new form of drug smuggling.German news agency DPA quoted investigators as saying that drug dealers would use unsuspected Asian tourists travelling in the Czech Republic as drug couriers and the dealers would attach plastic boxes filled with narcotics to the tourists' vehicles with strong magnets.Christian Schuettenkopf, spokesman for the Customs Investigation Office Munich,christianlouboutinclouds, said the smugglers would then follow the cars on the way to Germany at a safe distance and wait for an opportunity to remove the boxes.Five months of investigation have led to the arrest of five suspects aged 21 to 43 years, he said.In recent years, drug smuggling is becoming more and more serious in the Czech Republic because of its geographical position.
Rise of OTTWeChat, on which people can send texts, voice messages, pictures and videos as well as having video chats, has gained more than 300 million users in less than two years, Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, disclosed earlier this year. This makes WeChat, in effect, China's second largest telecom operator by user numbers, even though it is not a traditional telecom carrier. China Mobile, China's largest telecom carrier, has over 700 million users. China Unicom has around 240 million users and China Telecom has 160 million subscribers.Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said at a forum in December 2012 that OTT services have posed a noticeable challenge to telecom operators in terms of short message activity and even voice services, including international telephone services. A total of 897.3 billion short messages were sent using China's three telecom carriers during 2012, a 2.1 percent year-on-year increase, but a four-year low in terms of growth rate,beats by dre, while the number of mobile phone subscribers increased by about 11 percent in 2012 over the previous year, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on January 24. It is an irresistible trend for growth of short messaging to slow down,p90x, partly due to a fall in prices for mobile phone calls and partly due to rising use of OTT services,Burberry Bags, Fu Liang, an independent telecom analyst,Hogan Scarpe, told the Global Times Saturday. In order to compete with OTT, telecom operators are also running social media services similar to WeChat,Chanel bags, such as China Mobile's Feiliao,Chanel bags, China Unicom's Woyou and China Telecom's Yiliao. But these have not been as successful so far."They hope to keep users connected to their networks with these services, but they also want to avoid such services cutting profits from their voice call business," said Ma Jihua. Telecom operators worldwide face the same challenge, with the growing popularity of social networking services such as Skype, Facebook and others. Data from UK-based telecom consultancy Ovum showed that the rise of these alternatives has led to a fall of $13.9 billion in short message revenue for global telecom carriers in 2011. Ovum predicted that the drop in revenue would reach $54 billion by 2016.
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