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 (Calgary,
CANADA, November 28, 2000)--China Broadband Corp. just announced
that its operational subsidiary Big Sky Network has signed a cooperative
joint venture with municipally owned Deyang Guangshi Network Development
Ltd. to provide reliable high speed cable Internet access throughout
the city of Deyang, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China.Deyang, a city of 4 million people, and a major manufacturing center in Sichuan, is located approximately 50 miles north of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, where China Broadband launched a similar service in October of this year. Internet access will be provided over the existing HFC cable television network, which services some 220,000 subscribers over 2,200 km of new fibre optical infrastructure. Under the joint venture contract, Deyang Guangshi Network will provide exclusive rights for Internet access, including data and voice over this network, while Big Sky Network will provide capital, management, and Internet technology. The term of the joint venture is twenty years. "Deyang is one of several cities in the Sichuan Province with which we hope to joint venture in order to achieve a province-wide network, which we believe will greatly facilitate not only Internet access, but the future delivery of multi-media content and telephony," stated Mr. Matthew Heysel, Chairman and CEO of China Broadband Corp. The launch of cable Internet access will occur concurrently with the receipt of government approvals, which are anticipated within the next two months. About China Broadband China Broadband is the leading cable broadband Internet technology provider in China. The Company was formed to provide Internet technology to enable reliable, low-cost, high-speed Internet access over the modern hybrid fibre-optic coaxial (HFC) cable television architecture in China. The Company, through its operational subsidiary, Big Sky Network, forms cooperative joint ventures with municipal governments, which own local cable television stations. These joint ventures provide Internet technology services to enable cable Internet access once all government approvals are obtained. The company's first joint venture was formed with China Merchant's Group, the local authority which controls the Shekou Industrial Zone, China's first established economic free zone, located near Hong Kong. Cable Internet service was launched in Shekou on June 30, 2000. In addition to launching its second cable Internet service in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province on October 26, 2000, the company is currently negotiating similar joint ventures with an additional 20 cities throughout China, representing a market of some nine million cable television subscribers. As well as providing Internet access, China Broadband enables real-time security trading, on-line education, and when government permits, Internet Telephony. For more information visit the China Broadband Corp Web site at www.chinabroadband.com. Source China Broadband Corp. 
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