China Brand News, Continued

The real news item is how China feels it should have a working 3G cellular network. And beign China, they want to have local technology in the mix. Rumor and hearsay say that the local test 3G network isn't realiable at all, but hey, they can improve right? Or at least sell massive quantities to drown small complaints such as call dropping or inexplicable signal loss (you can call this the iPhone 3G method.)

AP News is reporting on this too. They state they don't know who is getting the 3G licenses and instead talked of technology distribution. No original research involved, as it appears the news item is a translation of a press release. It's weak reporting through and through, but what irked me was the last note.

They added a More on the Net section to the end. And remember, this is for a piece of news they translated and posted for people who assumedly need the translation - otherwise they wouldn't have a motive posting:

"On the Net:

Chinese Cabinet (in Chinese): http://www.gov.cn"

They linked to the Chinese Goverment website. In Chinese. I can do one better. Here's the English website of the Chinese Government AP was too lazy to dig up http://english.gov.cn/ and here's the same news AP reported:
http://english.gov.cn/2008-12/31/content_1193250.htm

Compare it to the AP post:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_telecoms

They just didn't have the balls to credit it further or provide a proper link to the content.
The China Brand News. a Quick Fix of reporting.

OP Out.