Google mobile service partially blocked in China

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Source: AFP

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google reported that its mobile Internet service in China was partially blocked but it was unknown whether the trouble was related to a stand-off over censorship there.

A website Google set up for people to track the status of its services in China showed that the US Internet giant's Mobile offering on Sunday joined Groups, Picasa and Docs as listed as "partially blocked."

"We can confirm that our status page indicates that Mobile services are partially blocked from within mainland China," a Google spokesman said in an email response to an AFP inquiry.

Mobile service availability fluctuates and it was too soon to be certain when the partial blockage was a retaliatory move by Chinese officials.

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