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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (125260)	11/21/2009 10:31:09 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 543769

I doubt it; they are practitioners of the "we need a bunch of silver BBs" theory. China is wealthy enough to afford a lot of mistakes right now. I think it is a safe to say that they will make them over the coming decades. findarticles.com China Mobile seeks some return on TD-SCDMA investment Telecom Asia, June, 2009 by Iris Hong China Mobile has already splashed 44 billion yuan ($6.45 billion) on its TD-SCDMA network rollout and is on its way through a 55.8 billion yuan ($8.18 billion) program to expand coverage to 200 cities by year-end. For all that, it has signed up just 830,000 subscribers in 13 months, well short of its target of 10 million subs by the end of 2009. It has now starting to widen its discounts and to sink some of its now money into developing attractive handsets.