China Telecom controls the country's largest fixed-line network and is a relative newcomer to the mobile market, in comparison to giants China Unicom and China mobile.

中国电信控有中国最大的固话网络，但与移动巨头中国联通和中国移动相比，中国电信进入移动市场的时间相对较晚。

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The old fixed-line network is being torn up and replaced with a system using only internet-protocol (IP) technology, which is cheaper and better at handling voice, data and images.

旧的固线网络正在被拆除，取而代之的是一种仅使用网络协议(IP)，能更好地处理声音、数据和图像的更便宜的技术。

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China Mobile, it is said, would be given the small fixed-line network run by the state-controlled railway firm and would be saddled with a 3g licence forcing it to use the domestic 3g standard.

提出让一家国有铁路公司给与中国移动一个小范围的固话网络，同时颁发给中国移动3 G牌照，前提是只能使用本土3g标准。

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Two years ago, the company finished the task of connecting the country's 200-or-so inhabited islands to the fixed-line network.

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Creating the fixed-line network was hard.

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The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.

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