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Cannes, France - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent label music, on Wednesday partnered with Chinese mobile firm ZTE, to develop marketing programs and content bundles to bring Orchard content to ZTE partners, including China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. ZTE delivered 30 million mobile handsets globally during 2007, is also adding applications such as music downloading and playing to its handset product range.

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