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After two years of trying, Mobile TeleSystems, the country's top mobile phone operator, won approval from security officials to import the device.

MOBILE phone makers will face a "shuffle" of market positions after China announced two weeks ago that it would relax license regulations for handset manufacturing. Put simply speaking it means that a heap of new players, most of them with unknown brands, will appear in the world's biggest cell phone market. China's State Council has abolished some 186 administrative examination and approval items covering mobile communication systems and terminals. The move indicates that the country will formally cancel the mobile phone production license examination and approval system, which started about a decade ago. Chinese companies intending to manufacture phones, had to have at least 200 million yuan (US$26.31 million) in registered capital and get approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Then, if they wanted to sell phones in China, manufacturing companies had to have their products quality tested and authorized by the Ministry of Information