Some ideas on construction of 3G mobile network in China

At present, China's 3G experiments and outfield testing is actively underway, the industry on the construction of 3G mobile network is very enthusiastic. For various reasons, the Ministry of Information industry is very cautious about the business of 3G service and has not yet made clear the time of issuance of 3G licences. This paper will put forward some ideas about the construction of 3G mobile network in our country, hoping to help solve the problem.

I. Main factors affecting the development of 3G in China

One is to repeat the investment problem. If China issued 5 3G licences, operators want to build a network covering more than 300 prefecture-level cities, each operator needs at least more than 100 billion yuan (new operators need more funds), several operators total investment of more than 600 billion yuan, capital pressure is obvious. As operators are state-owned enterprises, it is inevitable that duplication of construction is suspected.

The second is resource sharing. In order to reduce the investment of 3G network construction in our country, the resource sharing is necessary, but how to share, there is no clear operation standard.

Third, the competition problem. In order to promote the development of 3G business, moderate competition is necessary, but competition must be reasonable competition according to certain rules to avoid vicious competition.

Four is the roaming problem. The roaming and interconnection between the networks need to be regulated, which is an important factor affecting the development of our country's 3 G. (Computer science)

II. Regional classifications and network-building principles

Because of unbalanced economic development in different regions of China, there is a big difference in consumption level between urban and rural areas, such as the density of mobile users, call income and cost of network construction. In the rural low traffic density area, each base station absorbs a low volume of traffic and invests a huge amount of money. If the low traffic density area has 4 to 5 3G operators to build the network, each development of users will be very limited, the return of the money received is far less than the investment funds, may not be able to recover investment. Therefore, it is necessary to take measures in low traffic density areas to reduce the number of operators to avoid duplication of construction.

According to the economic development level of different regions, market capacity, traffic density, expected income, etc., can be divided into 3 types of regions: A-type region for the developed areas, including large and medium-sized cities, suburbs, towns and so on, such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and so on, B-type area for ordinary areas, including small cities, urban areas C-Type region is less developed area, mainly refers to the countryside and villages in the remote and backward areas of the West. The construction principle of different regions is: a type of region allows a number of operators to build a network, full competition, B-class areas by operators to decide whether or not to build a network, C-class areas for restricted competition zone, only 1 operators to build networks. In principle, the cost of establishing the network is shared by the operators, and the allocation method is that each operator will pay a certain proportion of its business income each year or every month to form a universal service fund. The construction of net investment in category C areas is paid by the universal Service Fund.

In the city, it is mainly the indoor coverage system, subway and tunnel of high-rise building that need to standardize the competition. Taking Beijing as an example, there are about 3000 high-rise buildings in the urban area that need to be built with indoor coverage systems. If there are 5 3G operators and each build 1 sets of distribution systems, according to each set of systems 300,000, the investment required for 4.5 billion yuan; If each building only allows 1 operators to build distribution systems, it can save investment of about 3.6 billion yuan. Therefore, it is recommended that operators take Finco approach to reduce costs, each building only 1 sets of indoor coverage system, allowing all mobile phone users. Networks covering subways and tunnels can be built, operated and maintained by local operators with universal service obligations, allowing all mobile phone users to use them.

III. operator Classification and license issuance programme

It is proposed to divide the operators into national operators and local operators. National operators apply for a national 3G license, can be in various cities in the country to build and operate 3G network, local operators to apply for local 3G license, only in the administrative regions permitted by its licence to build and operate 3G network, without building their own long-distance network, in accordance with the principle of long-distance division to use the common long-distance network

According to the current situation of several major operators in China, there can be a variety of 3G licensing programs. For example, the licensing scheme one, 3 national licences, 2 local licences, licensing programmes two, 3 national licences, 1 local licences, three licensing schemes, 2 national licences and 2 local licences.

National license issued by the state authorities, the issue of priority to choose to have mobile network operation experience, with a nationwide long-distance network operators, such as China Mobile, Unicom, Chinese Telecom, China Netcom and so on. Local licences are issued in accordance with the meaning that the 3G network of the same group of licences uses the same frequency bands and network numbers, and there is no affiliation between the operators. Local licences may be issued according to the province, or by prefecture-level cities. The 1 sets of local licences include a certain number of provincial and municipal operating licences, which can be used to adjust the total amount of 3G licences everywhere. In the case of a licensing scheme, the first set of local licences includes the eastern developed provinces and cities (Beijing, Liaoning, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Central provinces (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan), Western cities (Xian, Chengdu, Chongqing) A total of 22 licences; the second set of local licences includes 12 licences in the eastern developed provinces (Beijing, Liaoning, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong), and the central city (Harbin, Zhengzhou, Wuhan). As a result, there are 5 operators in the eastern developed provinces, 4 operators in the Central provinces (5 in the big cities), and only 3 operators in the western provinces (4 in the big cities), effectively restricting the number of operators everywhere and avoiding duplication of construction. Local licences can be distributed uniformly by the competent national authorities, and they may be delegated to provincial authorities. A company with a national licence can no longer apply for a local licence, and each company may apply for a number of local licences in different networks.

National operators can be divided into operators with universal service obligations and operators without universal service obligations. This article refers to the General service obligations of operators, refers to the Ministry of Information industry in accordance with the requirements of a certain period of time within the limits of competition to build, maintain 3G network operators. Operators with national licences are designated by the Ministry of Information industry to assume a General Service obligation in some or all of the country, and it is recommended that the existing mobile operator, China Mobile and Unicom, be selected as a priority. The division of labor between operators with universal service obligations can be divided into a provincial lump sum method, each prefecture-level city only designated a universal service operator.

Iv. establishment of a universal service fund

In order to enable operators to take an active and effective role in universal service obligations, referring to the experience of universal telecommunication service in developed countries, it is proposed to set up universal Service Fund, in particular by opening a special account in the bank, and each 3G operator will make a certain proportion of its business income each year or every month to form And the Ministry of Information Industry set up a specialized agency management. Universal service funds are used to cover network construction costs, partial maintenance costs and management fees for universal Service fund management agencies in category C areas.