China Mobile’s banning of mobile messaging company Sohu from its service for a year has been listed as one of the big events in the Chinese Internet industry. The action caused shares in all mobile content companies to fall, and indicated that despite a veneer of a business friendly environment in China the idea “that the companies are operating in the same regulatory and user-friendly environment as, let’s say, a Yahoo is purely an opium pipe dream”.
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