Google Inc. postponed the introduction of its mobile phones in China, the world’s biggest handset market, amid a censorship dispute that began last week when the company said it may close its offices in the nation.
A ceremony for China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.’s introduction of mobile phones using Google’s Android software scheduled to take place in Beijing tomorrow has been postponed, Marsha Wang, a Beijing-based spokeswoman for the Internet company, said today. Wang said she didn’t know when the event may be rescheduled for.
China was home to 384 million Web users at the end of 2009, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, a state agency that registers online domain names. The government censors online content by closing domestic Web sites and blocking those based overseas such as Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google’s YouTube.
The nation had more than 738 million mobile phone users at the end of November, according to government data. China Mobile Ltd. is the biggest carrier, followed by China Unicom and China Telecom Corp.
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