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The Mobile Internet The future of the mobile Internet is already on 1 in Asia. European and American carriers continue to 2 behind on developing mobile payment systems, easy-to-use content and common standards for new services, while Asians are coming up 3 simple, cost-effective offerings. One example can be found in the mobile betting system 4by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, a nonprofit group 5 generates more than $1 billion in revenue from horse racing every year 6 charity. In 2001, the Jockey Club introduced a system of gambling 7which users could place and pay for bets 8their mobile phones. Last year the service 9an additional $5.2 million per year for the four mobile carriers that support it. It has also increased margins for the Jockey Club, which pays less to process text-message bets than those placed over the phone or in person, and has cultivated a whole new group of gamblers-women-who are drawn 10the anonymity of the mobile phone.The 11 of the Hong Kong betting system reveals many of the key differences between Asian and Western strategies. For starters, Asians are partnering up. It’s no accident that many of the best ideas for new data services come not from telecoms 12 , but form outside organizations. 13 many European and U.S. firms continue to try to develop their own content, Asian carriers have embraced their role 14a delivery-and-payment service, leaving the hard work of content creation to 15 . The classic example is Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, which 16 it easy for outside content developers to use its system, and takes a 9 percent cut of whatever they earn. 17 , mobile-data traffic in Japan is among the highest in the world. Asian companies are also focusing more on 18 works now, not on the distant cutting edge. While the future may lie with streaming video, mobile teleconferencing and other fancy features, few people today have phones that will support such things, and even 19 know how to use them. While so-called 3G phones are beginning to trickle ont