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To: BishopsChild who wrote (1119)	3/10/1999 9:42:00 AM
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China Telecom sees Internet users double in '99 SHENZHEN, China, March 10 (Reuters) - Telecommunications giant China Telecom said on Wednesday it expected its Internet customers to double to three million by the end of this year. ''We expect the number of our Internet users to be double from that in 1998 to about three million by the end of 1999,'' said Yin Yiping, director of the data communications bureau of China Telecom. Yin said China Telecom had 400,000 Internet customers in China at the end of 1997. The number grew to 1.5 million at the end of 1998. China had about 2.1 million Internet users at end of 1998, Yin added. Yin said the number of Internet users would grow rapidly after the launch of Microsoft Corp's (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Venus project, which aims to bring low-cost Internet access to China. ''We expect the number of Internet users will increase very quickly, but it will depend on when it (Venus project) will be launched,'' the China Telecom official said. chris