Broadband China, how wide is broadband?

The "broadband China" strategy and implementation plan published by the State Council indicated that the broadband network was first positioned as "a strategic public infrastructure for China's economic and social development in the new era" at the national level. So how much is broadband? Can the digital divide between urban and rural areas be bridged ? days ago, The vice minister of industry and Information technology, Chang, was interviewed on the Chinese government network and responded to these questions.

How much is broadband? "If you just surf the news, send and receive emails, use search, listen to some music, 2 trillion to 10 trillion is enough," Chang said. But with the development of society, especially the high-speed development of network video, we need a wider bandwidth. ”

"Broadband China" strategy proposed that by 2015 the city's broadband access capacity to reach 20 trillion bits per second, rural areas to reach 4 trillion bits per second. Some developed cities to reach 50 trillion to 100 trillion broadband households, 3G network coverage of urban and rural, 4G network large-scale commercial. According to the development timetable proposed by the strategy, Chang said that 2014 to 2015 is the popularization phase, focusing on addressing the problem of network coverage, while increasing the user's penetration rate. After 2015 is the optimization of the upgrade phase, the promotion of the entire industrial chain level, and gradually solve the speed, there is no, how much, the price level of the problem.

"The specific measures to speed up, generally speaking, is to do a good job of ' 3+1 '." "' 3 ' means catching up with the 3 key links of broadband networks: one is to speed up the access network," said Chang. This is the most important part of the broadband speed increase, but also the largest investment in network construction; the second is that the metropolitan area network should be widened to improve its business carrying capacity and business sense ability, and enhance the intelligent level of the network. Third, the backbone of the network to repair the wide, Secure Network Center hub of the dredge. ' 1 ' means to improve the comprehensive ability of the website. ”

At the same time, Chang also pointed out that the solution to the broadband speed problem can not be achieved overnight, users of the broadband network experience not only related to the speed of access, and metropolitan area networks, backbone networks, Web site bandwidth, Web site processing capabilities, the user's own computer and Internet equipment performance and other factors. "All links are unimpeded and users can experience real high-speed broadband." ”

How to use Broadband

Strengthen the application and popularization in education, medical treatment, employment, people's livelihood and other fields

"As important as the promotion of broadband Internet connection is to improve the national broadband services cost-effective." "Chang said that to further reduce the price of broadband products involved, so as to reduce the cost of construction, so that the majority of users indirectly benefit.

The application service level of broadband in China has been greatly improved in recent years. Instant messaging, search engine usage rate has been over 70%, online shopping, online payment usage rate is also growing at a high speed. However, the current network applications mainly focus on entertainment and information browsing, with the people and social production and life is not a high degree of integration.

How to promote broadband service applications, Chang said: First, to lay a good foundation for broadband applications and innovation to provide superior performance, cost-effective, excellent service infrastructure; Second, we should actively promote the integration and innovation, support the mobile Internet, the next generation of Internet, intelligent terminals, cloud computing and other new generation of industry development and innovation Promote the network application from entertainment to productive, people's livelihood, three to enhance the broad masses of the application of broadband skills, focus on improving small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers in the information technology, digital application skills, so that enterprises and the public never use to use, from the use of want to use, from the want to use.

The popularity of broadband is difficult

Rural and central and western regions, large investment, maintenance costs, low output, so that the rural broadband penetration rate is far lower than the city. "For example, the investment return on a highway between Beijing and Tianjin and the construction of a high-speed road in the rural areas of the Midwest, this input and output is different." Chang said that the government should give more support to the policy, including investment system, fiscal tax policy, financial policy and compensation mechanism.

Since 2004, the Communications Village project, has made more and more rural telephone, Qualcomm Broadband, three basic telecommunications enterprises China Mobile, China Telecom, Chinese unicom in rural areas, especially the Midwest investment more than 80 billion yuan.

According to estimates, the "broadband China" strategy implementation, by 2020 will need to invest about 2 trillion yuan, including fixed broadband network and mobile broadband network two aspects of infrastructure investment. "To solve such a large investment, the overall view or to adhere to the government guidance and market regulation of the principle of integration." "On the one hand, the government cannot be offside," Chang said. To exert the basic role of the market in allocating resources, through opening the market, encouraging competition, guiding and promoting the investment construction of enterprises; On the other hand, the government can not be absent, through policy guidance, overall allocation in rural and western areas of broadband construction investment, measures support the development of rural broadband.