China plans building 3G telecom network by itself

China plans building 3G telecom network by itself
Updated: 2006-1-23 9:47:27

China will build a stand-alone national mobile network based on
TD-SCDMA, a home-grown standard for third-generation (3G) wireless
telecoms service, the Xinhua news agency reported.

"The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) ... has set ...
TD-SCDMA as national technology standard for the telecommunication
industry," Xinhua said on Friday.

http://www.cn-c114.net/newsheadline_html/200612394727-1.Html

Study: Google #1 in China

Study: Google #1 in China - Chris Sherman
2006-01-18 08:46:45
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2006/01/study_google_1_in_china_chris_sherman.php
From Search Engine Watch:
Despite trailing Chinese traffic leader Baidu, Google is rated the best
search engine in China, according to new research from Keynote Systems.
The study focused on the user experience of the four leading search
engines in China: Alibaba/Yahoo!, Baidu, Google China and Sohu/Sogou.
The study observed the searching habits of more than 1,200 adult users,
with 70% residing in major mainland China cities and 30% located in
diverse locations within the country.

111 million Net users counted in China

In China, 111 million Net users counted - Reuters
2006-01-18 09:00:27
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2006/01/in_china_111_million_net_users_coun
ted_reuters.php

>From Reuters, via CNet:
The number of Web users in China, the world's second-largest Internet
market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily
reported Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country's 1.3 billion people
now have access to the Internet, the newspaper reported, citing a survey
released by the China Internet Network Information Center.

China Likely to Issue 3G Licenses Prior to Industry Reshuffle

The cii4 newsletter reports that :
"China is likely to issue 3G licenses by this June at the earliest,
recently expressed Zhang Dongming, the research director with BDA China
Limited..."
"BDA forecasted that the 3G licensing would come ahead of the
industry-wide reshuffle of the country's telecom sector, because, if the
case went on the contrary, the domestic telecom carriers would be
difficult to provide 3G services by 2008 Beijing Olympics."
http://www.cn-c114.net/newsheadline_html/200611394952-1.Html

A Year without Chinese Produce

"Through tricks and persuasion I got my husband on board, and on Jan. 1
we launched a yearlong household embargo on Chinese imports. The idea
wasn't to punish China, which would never feel the pinprick of our
protest. And we didn't fool ourselves into thinking we'd bring back a
single job to unplugged company towns in Ohio and Georgia. We pushed
China out of our lives because we wanted to measure how far it had
pushed in. We wanted to know what it would take in time, money, and
aggravation to kick our China habit."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1220/p09s01-coop.html