Looking Ahead: Issues in China's Telecommunications Law
February 29, 2004 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesChina's booming telecommunications services sector is not yet regulated by a telecommunications law. It is hoped that a law will be promulgated this year to regulate the market. What will the law look like?
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By Arjun Subrahmanyan
Perhaps in no area of China's fast-growing economy is the government more sensitive about foreign investment than in telecommunications. The Chinese authorities have always sought to use foreign investment in ways that, while beneficial to national economic growth, also preserves the social order. The rapid development of communications technology forms a new and unprecedented challenge to efforts to control access to information while at the same time satisfying the country's keen demand for and interest in modern technology.