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To: Alomex who wrote (126817)	6/20/2001 11:27:21 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

China, World Biggest Telecom Product Market (Jun 14) chinaproducts.com China has become the biggest telecom product market in the world, according to sources from the 2nd APEC Investment Expo-"Sino-ROK IT Industry Investment Cooperation Forum" held in Yantai, Shandong Province. Liu Linru, Deputy-director of Planning Department of the Ministry of Information Industry told that the telephone users across the country has totaled some 2290 million households, of which, 1440 million are fixed phone users and 85.26 million the mobile ones. The rate of telephone popularization in the country has come to 20.1 percent, of which 29 percent go to the urban areas. In addition, 6.7 percent of urban population are the MP users. Today, the number of fixed telephone and the MP users in China ranks the second in the world. Over the past five years, the national electronic information industry (EII) has kept a stable increase rate of over 20 percent annually with its industrial added values up thrice over the GDP of the same period. The proportion of EII in the GDP rose from 0.8 percent in 1995 to 1.5 percent last year. Meanwhile, the gross industrial production value of EII, mostly the sectors of manufacture and software industry exceeded 1000 billion yuan. (Peopledaily)

To: Alomex who wrote (126817)	6/21/2001 1:13:24 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

China's Fiber Boom: No End in Sight By Josh Long phoneplusinternational.com More than 1.25 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables representing an excess of 30 million kilometers of optical fiber had been installed in China by the end of 2000, according to a report issued by the Boston-based market research firm, Information Gatekeepers Group ................................................................. What is more, Yi added, the fact that most telecom infrastructure has never been introduced in China has allowed operators to deploy new technology without fretting over the old stuff ............................................................. One striking footnote: Each day last year 170,000 people signed on as new telephone customers, increasing the total number of telephone subscribers to 215 million, according to Information Gatekeepers. The number of telephone lines has tripled from 50 million to 150 million since 1990, according to a spokesman at Lucent Technologies. .................................................................. IDC predicts that e-commerce revenues will reach $26 billion in China by 2004, up from $2.1 billion last year. The research firm predicts that the number of Internet users will triple between 2001 and 2004.