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...cash being spent by China's carriers - China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom - it remains to be seen which of the mobile-service providers and equipment manufacturers will manage to grab the largest slice of the pie. Another issue that remains very much in the balance is the fate of Beijing's attempt to bolster the country's technological chops by force-feeding the industry a homegrown version of 3G. More broadly, critics say that the long delay in granting 3G licenses - widely seen as an effort to allow more time for the development of China...
...fate of the Chinese flavor of 3G technology - named TD-SCDMA while the two existing international standards are known as WCDMA and CDMA200 EV-DO - is less clear. The government has boosted its chances of success by awarding the license for use of the technology to the country's dominant service provider, China Mobile, which boasts a whopping 75% of the subscriber market. China Mobile has tried to get a jump on 3G by handing out free handsets to some 800,000 subscribers beginning last April as part of a trial rollout of the homegrown platform. But the service...
...staged a strike and were one of the first brigades to stop collaborating with the Shah's regime," he said, adding, "Back then, we had little pride. We really felt like the stooges of the U.S. Today, we are a proud people. At last we determine our own fate and the bigger powers just don't know how to deal with us." Then he asked a bystander listening in where he was from; upon learning the man was American, shook his hand and said, "Thank...
...deep hole, but West responded with characteristic calm in a methodical win. Harvard’s top seed cruised to a 3-0 victory.Buchanon evened the match at 4-4 with a 3-9, 9-3, 10-8, 9-2 thriller, placing the team’s fate on Cohen’s shoulders.The junior seventh seed proved very much up to the challenge, dispatching Penn’s Drake Porter 3-1.“[Cohen was] unbelievable,” Bajwa said. “Frank literally took over the responsibility of the team and pulled...
...stakes are as high as they've ever been, with a consensus among reformists and pragmatic conservatives that the fate of their country depends on being able to wrest the presidency away from Ahmadinejad. But whether that consensus translates into an effective electoral challenge remains to be seen...