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To: RealMuLan who wrote (58065)	1/1/2005 6:52:22 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

China tops 329 million mobile phone subscribers Updated 01:23am (Mla time) Jan 02, 2005 Agence France-Presse BEIJING -- Mobile phone subscribers in China topped 329 million, with the world’s largest cell phone market expected to hit 402 million this year, state press reported. “China is expected to have 402 million mobile phone subscribers next year,” Yang Qing, deputy director of the China Academy of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Information Indiustry (MII) was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying. Such numbers would mean that nearly one out of every three Chinese citizens would have a mobile phone. China’s mobile telecommunications equipment industry has also posted fast growth, with ouput rising from 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion dollars) in 1998 to 280 billion yuan last year, the report said. The number of mobile phone manufacturers increased from eight in 1998 to 37 last year with total production presently exceeding 250 million sets a year. China is expected to export some 100 million hand sets this year but with only about 2.7 percent coming from domestic manufacturers, while multinational makers like Nokia and Motorola lead the charge, the report said. Meanwhile in a separate report, Xinhua said that China would have 360 million fixed line telephone subscribers by the end of 2005, up from 313 million at the end of November. According to MII statistics, China has 24.5 fixed line subscribers for every 100 people, still below the international standard of 40 subscribers per 100 people, it said. news.inq7.net

To: RealMuLan who wrote (58065)	1/2/2005 6:16:41 AM
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Tsunami Group Will Expand Its Network nytimes.com By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: January 2, 2005 Officials in charge of the existing international tsunami warning system, which covers only the Pacific Ocean, have taken an initial step to broaden the network to the Indian Ocean and other possible trouble spots, agreeing to distribute their bulletins on earthquakes and possible waves "to anyone who wants to receive the messages." Until now the bulletins had gone only to about 300 agencies and individual scientists tracking conditions mainly in the Pacific, which has historically experienced 90 percent of the world's underwater earthquakes and tsunamis. The Web site for the office of the tsunami monitoring service is ioc.unesco.org. The first bulletin went out over the public alert system yesterday and described a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that occurred west of Sumatra at 1:25 p.m. local time - the strongest of five aftershocks that shook the region yesterday. Peter Pissierssens, the director of ocean services for the Paris-based Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, a United Nations agency, emphasized that the public bulletins were just a first step. A workable system in the Indian Ocean would require countries there to expand their own networks of tide gauges and seismographs and integrate them to ensure that warnings could be sent quickly, he said. Some tsunami experts had been pressing Indian Ocean countries in recent years to take the danger into account and develop warning systems. Seismologists said the earthquake did nothing to relieve pressure in other places along the fault line off the Sumatran coast. "The danger isn't over," said Dr. Robert McCaffrey, a geophysicist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.