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To: Sully- who wrote (84616)	10/24/2000 8:16:33 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 152472

More from Chiner..... Telecom competition mounts in post-monopoly landscape (24 October 2000) Ever since China Telecom, the state telecom carrier that formerly enjoyed a monopoly, was broken up and new carriers have been allowed to offer overlapping services, competition has been on the rise in China’s telecom industry. Statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry on Oct. 20 reveal that in the first half of this year, China Telecom’s share of the total Chinese telephone user base amounted to 68.1 percent, China Mobile had 25.8 percent and China Unicom took the remaining 6 percent, according to the Oct. 20 Zhongguo Jingji Shibao (China Economic Times). China Telecom owned 86.6 percent of China’s long-distance optical cable while China Unicom owned 13.4 percent. China Mobile claimed 81.2 percent of total mobile phone subscribers and China Unicom had the remaining 18.8 percent. In the emerging Internet protocol (IP) telephone arena, the length of phone calls by China Telecom, China Unicom and Jitong Communications customers amounted to 54.4 percent, 31.2 percent and 12.3 percent, respectively. Entry of new competitors In line with the State Council’s plan, the former China Telecom split into four companies operating independently in the fixed-line telephone, mobile phone, satellite communications and paging service sectors. China Unicom absorbed the paging service provider Guoxin Telecom, with total assets of 12.6 billion renminbi (US$1.52 billion), after the latter’s separation from China Telecom. The Chinese government also approved the founding of China Netcom. Currently, the major telecom companies—China Telecom, China Mobile, China Satellite (ChinaSat), China Netcom and Jitong Communications—are competing with each other, and many small and mid-size firms are springing up as well. Each of the major telecom infrastructure sectors—including international and domestic long-distance phone services, local phone service and mobile services—has at least two independent operators competing against each other, according to the article. To optimize use of existing network resources, the MII will continue to help the major telecom companies speed up development and enhance their competitiveness in the global market, the story said. Meanwhile, the MII will also support telecom start-ups and help them accelerate their growth. In addition, the ministry will allow qualifying, restructured special-purpose communication networks to enter the domestic telecom market, according to the source. chinaonline.com Ö¿Ö

To: Sully- who wrote (84616)	10/24/2000 8:20:09 PM
From: grinder965	Respond to of 152472

A very good, comprehensive balanced article. Kudos to the author!

To: Sully- who wrote (84616)	10/24/2000 9:45:08 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 152472

China's "government is finding ways to move to 3G as quickly as possible...3G is the endgame". Just 1X. They have basic problems to contend with. Things are like this in Chiner: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) demands that, in the coming five to 10 years, the construction of water conservation, transportation, energy and other infrastructure projects be further reinforced. The Central Committee of the CPC details its requirement on infrastructure construction in its Proposal for Formulating the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) for National Economic and Social Development, which was passed at the just-concluded 5th Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the CPC."... and so on... Water supply and waste; flood control; electricity; production for export; consolidation of disparate geographic regions and peoples. COMMUNICATION IS95 2GCDMA is an excellent system, made available by IJ on terms that can't be refused... cost and speed of deployment, development of an exportable industry with a piece of 3G production and royalties all over the world, favorable terms in all directions. The elegance of the upgrade to 3G comes with the integrity of the basic concepts developed by Qualcomm, as opposed to GSM's lack of evolutionary path, but "endgame" 3G probably has little appeal to Minister Wu, who is oriented (no pun intended) to the mass of consumers, to industry, and to the government.. They need to communicate. Industry and government need to move data, and 1X will help tremendously. Killer app streaming video is unnecessary and wasteful in China, but saleable elsewhere. chapq