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Ericsson is edging ahead of its Western rivals for business in India and China, two of the world’s biggest and most lucrative mobile-phone markets, in part by pitching biofuel-power solutions and offering good financing terms to extend infrastructure to rural reaches. In China and India, Ericsson aims to exploit a growing demand for mobile communications in untapped rural areas, and in one Indian region is helping operators use local crops like cotton and fish oil to power phone transmitters in areas beyond national electricity grids.