Google says mobile services in China partly blocked

From InfoWorld: Google mobile services have been partly blocked in China, according to the company, after it snubbed the Chinese government over censorship last week.

A China status page set up by Google shows its mobile services were partially blocked in the country starting Sunday.

It was unclear how widespread the access problems were or whether they were tied to Google's move over censorship last week, when it started redirecting Chinese visitors from Google.cn to its Hong Kong search site, Google.com.hk. While Google had to censor politically sensitive results on its China-based site to meet Chinese government demands, it does not do so on its Hong Kong search engine.

Google search, maps, and news services could not be accessed from Beijing in tests using a China Mobile GPRS data connection.

"We can confirm that our status page indicates that mobile services are partially blocked from within mainland China," a Google spokeswoman said.

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