But in a moment of strategic thinking, I committed The China Business Network to hosting an event on opportunities in the healthcare sector in China, in Boston on June 3.
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The China Internet Network Information Center, which answers to China's Ministry of Information Industry, controls the master "directory" of ".cn" Web sites.
As with many phones in China these days, the device in question supports dual-SIM connectivity -- the screenshots indicate that it's connected to China Telecom's CDMA2000 network and China Mobile's 2G network simultaneously.
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In 2000 Equant approached the state-owned China Netcom and agreed to teach it how to build a national data network for China.
There are now more than 420 million mobile users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (Cinic).
The carmaker plans to increase its dealership network in China by a further 30% in the coming year.
That conclusion follows from the fact that the Pac 12 has committed to and actually commenced negotiations to expand its TV network into China.
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Shorn of a mobile network with limited potential, China Unicom will be able to devote its resources to developing a network based on the far more popular GSM standard.
According to a survey enacted by the China Internet Network Information Center, Baidu upped its market share in Beijing by 10.8 percentage points to 52%.
Some kind of news about an iPhone tailored to a new LTE 4G network in China could also be a big deal.
China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
"With the increasing popularity of smartphones in China, we are delighted to offer the BlackBerry Curve 8910 smartphone through our retail distribution network in China, " said Guo Wei, Chairman and CEO, Digital China.
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For SinoPac, one clear benefit would be tapping ICBC's network of bank branches to raise its profile in China, analysts said.
At UCSF, the Li Ka Shing Foundation gift will be used to create a worldwide network of researchers and doctors, leadership exchanges between China and the U.S., and forge a program to create more precise medicines.
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China Mobile is in need of a flagship smartphone that it can actively market in order to promote its 3G network, an area where it has lagged its competitors. (see China Mobile Needs To Step Up As 3G Growth Slows) It is pursuing an Apple iPhone deal, but government concerns over the high subsidies associated with the iPhone is a big deterrent.
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As The Economist recently reported, China plans to extend its rail network by almost 19, 000 miles by 2015.
This is the latest in a series of moves by China to gain control over a network of ports, railways and distribution channels which it will use to carry its goods to European markets.
They also gain access to a branch network and client list they could never afford to replicate, even after World Trade Organisation rules force China to open its domestic banking market fully from end-2006.
Ford plans to put together a network of exclusive Lincoln dealers in China.
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Mr Cook's comments came on a visit to Beijing to meet Chinese regulators and bosses of mobile network China Unicom.
China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with 564 million people online at the end of 2012, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center.
Picarro has also won contracts to build a network of greenhouse gas analyzers in California and China.
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Nearly half of China's 513 million netizens used weibo sites - Twitter equivalents - last year compared to 63 million in 2010, the China Internet Network Information Center report said.
China also recently agreed to modernize Cubas telecommunications network.
China's deep supply-chain network is hard to replicate quickly elsewhere, making it difficult for some factory owners to move.
Nor, somewhat surprisingly, is the idea that Apple might just be tempted to release an iPhone that will work on the China Mobile network.
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In addition to Softbank, other members of the consortium include Qualcomm and giant China Mobile which has already announced intentions to expand its network to 200, 000 sites.
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Asia's biggest clothing retailer and owner of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, which has been building a network of production sites in Bangladesh since 2008 to lower its dependence on manufacturing in China, where about 90% of all Uniqlo apparel is made.
If Clearwire can upgrade its network form WiMax to TDD LTE (85% similar technology) as scheduled and China Mobile (650 million Subs) finalizes a deal with Apple while completing their TDD LTE network, then Sprint will have a game changing world iPhone capable of roaming from FDD to TDD LTE.
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Even if any of the major retailers coming to India want to have a vendor network a quarter of the size of Wal-Mart in China, that alone will involve significant automation.
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