It had also produced an Android device, an obscure netbook called the Compaq AirLife 100 that lacked Android Market and was distributed exclusively via Spanish telecom giant Telefonica.

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Apple is already in China, of course, via China Unicom and China Telecom.

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Sixty-six million people access the Internet via their handsets, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

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While few rural Africans have landlines, mobile telephone ownership is rapidly increasing, and companies such as Kenyan telecom provider, Safaricom, have already introduced systems that allow subscribers to transfer money via cell-phones.

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