Operators rush broadband service to make up for fixed-line user loss

Commercial News (reporter Mao Tao tao) Although the scramble for the 3G has been fully launched, the big three telecom operators have not given up on the broadband business. The latest news yesterday shows that China Telecom has recently held an internal meeting, the 2010 will speed up the process of broadband network, so that the main urban broadband rate of around 4M generally reached.　　The number of broadband subscribers in China Telecom grew by 620,000 last December, compared with a 2.53 million per cent reduction in local telephone users, according to previous earnings reports. In the view of China Telecom, the number of fixed-line users is the basis of the company's business development premise, the current 80% of the company's assets are fixed network assets, in the development of mobile business at the same time need to maintain solid network development. In contrast to the shrinking number of fixed-line subscribers, the number of domestic broadband subscribers has been growing for several consecutive years.　　The Ministry of Statistics shows that by the end of last year, the number of domestic Internet broadband access users exceeded 103 million, compared with the end of 2008, an increase of 20.347 million. Due to the relatively stable speed, most of the domestic users are still broadband as the main means of Internet access. Good development prospects, so that telecom operators have never reduced the investment in broadband business.　　Previously, China Telecom and Unicom launched the "My E Home" and "family 1+" business, broadband and fixed telephone and PHS bundled together, in the development of broadband services at the same time slowed the loss of fixed telephone users. In addition to China Telecom, China Railcom, which has been merged into Chinese mobile, has recently held a working conference to put forward the fixed communications business and to develop broadband as the main target. Previously, China Unicom launched the national Broadband Upgrade speed project. Han Yu/Tabulation