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To: Alomex who wrote (126817)	6/21/2001 1:13:24 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) of 164684

China's Fiber Boom: No End in Sight By Josh Long phoneplusinternational.com More than 1.25 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables representing an excess of 30 million kilometers of optical fiber had been installed in China by the end of 2000, according to a report issued by the Boston-based market research firm, Information Gatekeepers Group ................................................................. What is more, Yi added, the fact that most telecom infrastructure has never been introduced in China has allowed operators to deploy new technology without fretting over the old stuff ............................................................. One striking footnote: Each day last year 170,000 people signed on as new telephone customers, increasing the total number of telephone subscribers to 215 million, according to Information Gatekeepers. The number of telephone lines has tripled from 50 million to 150 million since 1990, according to a spokesman at Lucent Technologies. .................................................................. IDC predicts that e-commerce revenues will reach $26 billion in China by 2004, up from $2.1 billion last year. The research firm predicts that the number of Internet users will triple between 2001 and 2004.

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