It will gain a fixed-line arm, but that is no recompense for what it will give up: its lock on the massive mobile market, encompassing two-thirds of Chinese customers and an even higher share of new subscribers.

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Still, it was fixed investments that really led the way down, dropping by 4.0% from a 4.7% gain in 2011.

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