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China to overtake Japan in telecoms

China's telecoms market is poised to overtake Japan's by 2014. The prediction serves as a wake-up call for those western vendors for whom "Asia" has traditionally meant first and foremost Japan... ...full story at Engaging China

from Engaging China on Mon, Aug 03 2009

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