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China Telecom Mulls Entry Into US Telecoms Market
hackingbear excerpts from a story at Engadget: "Instead of resting on its laurels as China's third-largest wireless provider, China Telecom is now looking to branch out into relatively uncharted waters — namely, the U.S. consumer market. ... The proposed service would provide customers with handsets that could be used in both China and the U.S., theoretically appealing to Chinese-Americans, students or businessmen who travel frequently between the two countries ... and would even consider purchasing or constructing its own network in the States,' with the 'capacity to spend 'hundreds of millions or billions' on stateside acquisitions.' At its home turf, despite being a state-owned company, China Telecom, along with China Unicom, is being investigated over alleged monopolistic practices by the Chinese government. The two companies would face penalties of up to 10 percent of their annual business revenues if they were found guilty of monopolistic practices. This is the first such investigation into China's large enterprises since the Anti-Monopoly Law came into effect in 2008."
I would love to have a cheap ass cell phone. It really can't be any worse than my $500 piece of crap. Really, this is the best phone i've ever had, and its still trash. Android is a better operating system than iOS, but iOS has Bently style fit and finish. My copy of Android seems like it was written by drunk 12 year olds. Crash taking a picture, crash sending a txt, crash loading the browser. This is Alpha shit. Even Beta programs are better than this. And this is version 2.1? It shouldn't be released till version 5, apparently. The fact that my GPS antenna fell off the motherboard is just icing on the cake, proving the fact that no matter what you spend, you get junk. Why not let my spent $100 on he next one? At least i'll laugh when it sucks then.
It used to be "bread and circuses", now it's "Chinaman steal your jobs while Muslim bomb your suburban homes".