Private firms shake up China's mobile market

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) yesterday handed out the first batch of licences to 11 private enterprises, including a unit of Alibaba Group, to sell mobile services, breaking the monopoly of state-owned firms in the telecommunications sector.

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