China Unicom receives breaking-up signals, FT.com, 27 Jan 2005

“Pity the poor managers at China Unicom, the country's number two mobile telephone operator. Not only must they labour with the politically imposed legacy of running two networks based on completely different standards, they also recently saw their chairman summarily transferred to lead larger rival, China Mobile. The worst, however, may be yet to come: Chinese telecoms circles and local media have in recent months been abuzz with reports about a possible big restructuring of the industry - and the hottest rumour of all is that Unicom could be broken up.�

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