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China has started restructuring its telecom industry to promote moreCompetition and clear the way for issuing 3G licenses

China's largest mobile communi-cations company, China MobileCommunications Corp., an-nounced on May 23 that it wouldacquire China Railway CommunicationCo. Ltd., also known as Tietong, a smallerfixed-line carder. The move kicked off thelong-awaited restructuring of the country'stelecommunications sector.