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China Online
Manoa Professor Eric Harwit published China’s Telecommunications Revolution.
China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the People’s Republic of China expects to quickly pass the U. S. in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace.
China’s Telecommunications Revolution is based on the Harwit's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the People’s Republic of China's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.
China’s Telecommunications Revolution is available from Oxford University Press.