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for building a new generation of wireless broadband mobile phone network.

The Chinese government said Wednesday that it had approved a plan for upgrading its mobile phone network for wireless broadband services, a move to elevate the country's competitiveness with home-grown technology.

The State Council said that the government was poised to award licenses for phone networks to offer so-called 3G phone services during the August 2008 Olympic Games here.

Some analysts said the proposal, posted on a government Web site, was not as sweeping as hoped.

"This looks like a plan for Wi-Fi, or wireless local area networks, not the 3G licenses that everyone is waiting for," said Chen Haofei, a telecom analyst at China International Capital.

Imedi, the Georgian television station controlled by News Corp., suspended broadcasting two weeks after the government allowed the station to go back on the air. Several Imedi journalists and production staff had already quit, claiming their professional skills were "misused" by an Imedi owner, Badri Patarkatsishvili, in his presidential campaign.

GOOGLE was handed a setback by a U.S. appeals court in a patent fight. The court tossed out part of a summary judgment in Google's favor in a lawsuit filed by Hyperphase Technologies, which had claimed that Google infringed on four patents used to make AutoLink and AdSense. The case can now proceed.

IBM licensed its chip-making technology to Semiconductor Manufacturing International, the biggest Chinese chip maker. The company will use IBM's bulk CMOS technology, the companies said.

TURKEY will sell shares in Turk Telekomunikasyon, the national fixed-line phone company, by the end of next year. The government will sell 15 percent of Turk Telekom in the initial public offering, an announcement on the Web site of the Official Gazette said. The shares could be worth as much as $1.6 billion.

Russia successfully launched a rocket Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS. Work on Glonass - for Global Navigation Satellite System - began in the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s.