When that happens, there will be new operators such as China Telecom and China Netcom that will need content.
But challenges include the long-awaited shake-up of China's telecoms sector, which could see the market becoming fiercely competitive with the entry of fixed-line and broadband providers China Telecom and China Netcom.
Take telecoms: China's early decision to deregulate the sector and break up the state monopoly into four competing firms two fixed-line (China Telecom and China Netcom) and two mobile (China Mobile and China Unicom) was widely admired.
In 2000 Equant approached the state-owned China Netcom and agreed to teach it how to build a national data network for China.
Now, China Telecom and Netcom are openly promoting it.
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While most of the fees for transmission within China will go to China Netcom, Delepine hopes to draw sales fromfirms trying to get data in and out of China.
One company, China Netcom, inherited the telephone networks in ten northern and western provinces.
Having failed to do so he reversed course in 2008 and came up with a clever scheme in which he, along with China Netcom, PCCW's second-largest shareholder, would take the company private, buying out the other shareholders for slightly less than he would receive from the company in a special dividend issued after the deal's completion.
Among the companies attempting to lure foreign investors are phone company China Netcom, China Construction Bank, Air China, China Power and carmaker Dongfeng Motor.
China Netcom Group (36, CN) didn't suffer that fate and in fact was in public hands only for the third of those years.
From its inception in 1999 until its ultimate sale to China Netcom in 2003, Milroy was instrumental in the creation of the company and its expansion across the Asian continent.
The botnet had two command and control domain names 091809.ru and sexiland.ru both hosted on the same IP address (210.51.166.238, China Netcom).
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