Three operators to set up communications tower facilities will no longer be built from the base station

A recent news that a national base station company is about to be set up will detonate the communications industry. In the evening of April 30, the ministry and the three operators have responded to confirm that the three operators are indeed studying jointly set up a new company to co-ordinate the construction of communication tower facilities. There is information from carriers that the new company name is initially expected to be the National Tower Company. On the evening of April 30, the head of the Ministry of Industry related department responded through the official website of Ministry of Public works that at present, three basic telecommunication enterprises are studying to form a communication facilities company, which is responsible for coordinating the construction of communication tower facilities and further improving the sharing level of telecommunication infrastructure. Ministry of Communication after this position, China Telecom [micro-blog], Chinese mobile [micro-blog], the three major operators of Unicom [micro-blog] have also responded to this, said that the establishment of the tower company is conducive to strengthening the basic network resources to build and share, reduce network construction and operating costs. At present, the Tower Company's related construction work is in progress. Some media sources said that, after the establishment of the tower, the three major operators will no longer build the base station, but to rent the base station of the national Base station, maintenance work will also be given to the new company formed. Coincides with the start of the 4G year, industry analysis predicts that the future of the National Tower Company will be very impressive volume. China Mobile alone, planning to build 500,000 4G base stations before the end of this year, China Telecom will order up to 250,000 base stations this year. By the end of this year, the number of 4G base stations in China is likely to rise from nearly 300,000 to as many as 1 million. In addition, whether the new company will involve the three major operators of the original base station integration management, is not clear. Tower Company to build rumors also caused the industry a new round of telecommunications restructuring, and even the separation of the network industry speculation. and whether the future base station integration will trigger a new monopoly of telecommunication infrastructure is one of the issues of concern to the communication industry.