China, India Compete for African Talk Time
In addition to competing for natural resources in Africa, India and China have now set their sights on mobile phone subscribers. Leading mobile companies in both China and India – China Mobile and Bharti Airtel are fiercely trying to acquire Africa’s MTN Group Ltd, the continent’s biggest mobile-phone operator, China Knowledge reported.
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India, China’s Network Competitiveness
India, the world’s software hub ranks seven places ahead of China, the world’s hardware hub, according to the Global Information Technology Report 2007-08, released by the World Economic Forum. However, while India slipped four places this year to rank 50th, China improved its position by five places to rech 57. The report ranks 157 countries according to their ability to benefit economically from new information and communications technology.
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China and LNG
Natural gas is a relatively clean and inexpensive fossil fuel which can be burned to produce a reasonable amount of energy. As of March 2008, California has some of the lowest natural gas prices in the world on the spot market. A lot of this is due to California’s ample supply of gas coming in from Canada and the Rocky Mountains.
Last semester Commissioner John Geesman of the California Energy Commission. Came and spoke in one of my classes. A large part of his talk focused on California’s increasing reliance on gas. As gas use expands California needs to secure reliable sources of gas to mitigate price risks; the old law of supply and demand suggests that the more supply we can secure, the lower our prices will be. One method of securing greater supply is by importing liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG is cooled and compressed gas which is more suitable for shipping from distant countries (a liquid or solid state of a substance has approximately 1/1000th the volume of the gaseous state).
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