On the triple frontier border town of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, pirated Chinese Apple, Microsoft and brand name apparel are often smuggled across the border into Brazil for sale nationwide.

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Though the company is declining from its current level of 69% market share given the pace of growth in the Chinese market, it still has many advantages over its peers mainly in the form of brand name and large number of subscribers.

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And I notice that AOL, in its drive to sign up users in Hong Kong, de-emphasize the brand name AOL and emphasize the Chinese characters for Internet, attempting to suggest that this Internet thing is something created by them.

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