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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Implementation date
01 Mar 2016
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Announced: 28 Dec 2015
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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