Word: unicom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night, hundreds of Chinese who don't own a PC crowd into Zeng's six Internet Cafes, where Net time retails for $3.60 an hour. It's fast food for the information age. Zeng, whose Unicom-Sparkice Information Network operates under a license from the government, says his customers are hungry for every byte. "Don't you see?" asks Charles Zhang, another Beijing Netrepreneur. "This is freedom...
...letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look at the hard drives; look at the bookmarks in the browsers. It's all U.S. content...