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CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Meanwhile, a 4-year-old effort to establish a competitor to China Telecom has yet to make significant headway. Backed by significant foreign investment from companies such as Sprint and Deutsche Telekom, the fledgling China Unicom has made some small progress in wireless service and infrastructure, but still offers very limited phone service. Reports in the country's state-affiliated newspapers have said the ministry in charge of China Telecom has submitted several plans for breaking up the company's monopoly to state officials. None of these plans has been accepted, however.

The stalling marks in part a clash between the desire for competition and modernization, and the fear of losing what has been one of the government's best businesses, say iphone 6 cases canada China watchers, "China is considering a Western model, Breaking down China Telecom is one of the possibilities," said Zixiang Tan, an assistant professor at SyracuseUniversity's School of Information Studies, who recently co-authored a book on the Chinese markets, "But a lot of people are still arguing to keep it as one.", The company, which made almost $20 billion dollars last year according to state figures, is a significant source of revenue for the government, The company serves most of the country's 110 million telephone customers, a figure that analysts say is likely to reach 170 million by the end of the year 2000..

The company could be broken down along geographical boundaries--much as AT&T was split in 1984--or could be split along business lines with new companies created to offer telephone, wireless, paging, and other telecommunications services. Closing investment doors? Western companies are watching eagerly for signs that they might be able to bid on a piece of the China Telecom pie. But recent pronouncements by Chinese trade officials make this an increasingly unlikely hope. "It's not that related to whether foreigners are allowed into the market," Tan said. "They would have to change their policies.".

Western companies have traditionally skirted laws against direct foreign investment in the sector by forming joint ventures with local companies which then create new operations, Sprint has used this "China-China-Foreign" model in its work with China Unicom, and other companies like Ericsson have profitably created a string of new companies to open up the mobile phone service and iphone 6 cases canada infrastructure markets, But Chinese officials now are saying they will crack down on this strategy, with warnings that they might force current investors out of the market..

Hard evidence of the crackdown has been slow in coming, however. Sprint officials say the government has not yet made any kind of move to push them out of their Unicom investment, which opened a new phone service in the northern industrial city of Tianjin in August. Ericsson officials say they had expected a crackdown for some time, but add that they have been in the market long enough that they don't expect any serious fallout. "We're not seeing any change," said Johan Wiklund, press relations manager for Ericsson mobile systems. "The government wants to promote local companies and local providers. But we have been very clear with our transfer of technology.".