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China: New regulations effectively exclude foreign companies from providing cloud-based services in the PRC

Announcement

28 Dec 2015

December 28th, 2015 - China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced an update to its regulations classifying telecommunications services, which now includes cloud-based Internet services. Such services must now locate all their operational equipment in the PRC; any data transfer abroad is effectively prohibited, making it near impossible for foreign firms of this type to do business in China.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

1 in force

Implementation date

01 Mar 2016

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Local operations requirement In force

On December 28th, 2015, the PRC Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a new version of its 'Classification Catalogue of Telecommunications Services'. Under this updated regulation, ...

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