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.

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But Cisco's more central business of selling expensive network gear to companies may be sagging.

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Verizon, the company that first differentiated itself on network quality, is selling off low band spectrum and acquiring high band spectrum.

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