BEIJING: China aims to bring faster and cheaper Internet access to more of its people, following complaints that a near monopoly by state-backed firms had hurt service.
China has the world’s largest number of Internet users at half a billion, but the government maintains strict controls over content, and recently it launched a crackdown on microblogs after rumours spread of a coup.
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