Why is the speed of China so not to force?

There are many things in the world that are not easy to adapt, such as migrating from a tropical Singapore to Iceland, or coming from the fastest South Korea to China, which is "slower". As for the former, some people may like it, and the latter, I reckon, is difficult for most people to adapt to.

South Korea topped the list at 14Mbps, 7 times times faster than the global average speed of 1.9Mbps, followed by Hong Kong (9.2Mbps), Japan (8.5Mbps) and the United States ranked 12th in 5Mbps, according to a survey by the Fortune magazine, Akamai.

What about China? According to the 27th China Internet Development Statistics Report of January 19 this year, as of the end of December 2010, China's average internet connection speed is 100.9kb/s, that is 0.81Mbps, far below the global average connection speed 230.4kb/s ( 1.84Mbps). Despite the slow pace of China's Internet connection, Chinese netizens have reached 457 million, adding 73.3 million people to the end of 2009. What is the cost of such a large Chinese internet user due to slow speed?

China, internet users in the world's first internet speed penultimate, the data show that South Korea's speed is the world's first, but recently South Korea for such an honor apparently there is still a higher pursuit of the South Korean government recently said it will be in 2012 before the end of the South Korean family speed reached 1Gbps, Such high speed will provide Korean home users with a wealth of network services. South Korea next year home broadband internet speed will reach 1Gbps, for the current speed 100 times times.

Why is the speed of South Korea so fast? The Korean internet revolution began in 1999 with Hanaro Communications. Because the state-owned enterprises in South Korea have a firm grip on the fixed telephone market and ISDN monopoly network access. Although the South Korean government and rival South Korea's communications are considered ADSL technology is immature and can not be commercialized, but April 1999 Hanaro in the world's first roll-out of ADSL speed up to 1Mbps, ahead of the Korean communication ISDN access speed 128Kbps. Subsequently, Hanaro launched a monthly 28,000 won (an equivalent of 170 yuan) low price policy to stir the entire South Korea, but also prompted the South Korean communications to give up ISDN and launched the ADSL service. The Korean internet revolution has since opened a real curtain and provided the cornerstone of South Korea's access to it power.

10 years, the Korean Internet access speed continues to accelerate, so far 100Mbps has become the standard of the general family. Although the speed is 100 times times earlier, but the monthly price is similar to the initial price, that is, 27,500 won (equivalent to 167 yuan). At the end of June this year, broadcasting sent the Communications Commission released the "Future Internet development Plan" said that the 2010-year 100Mbps standard, to 2012 Internet access speed to rise to 1Gbps, to 2020 to 10Gbps, that is, in 10 accelerated 100 times times.

In my opinion, the biggest reason for China's slow internet connection is the lack of effective competition. China's Internet access market is still almost divided by China Telecom and Chinese Unicom, both in the south and the north to enjoy regional monopoly advantage, China's broadband industry is in fact in the situation of administrative monopoly.

Another reason is that senior executives from China Mobile, China Telecom and Unicom are often transferred to each other. For example, in 2004, China Mobile deputy general manager Wang transferred to China Telecom to take over as general manager, Chinese Unicom chairman Mr Wang moved to the Chinese mobile to take over as general manager, China Telecom deputy general manager Chang to take over as chairman, Vice general manager of Netcom Rongquan transferred to the deputy general manager of Chinese Telecom to replace the Recently, there is also China Unicom chairman Chang will return to China Telecom as chairman of the rumors. With the transfer of executives from state-owned telecoms operators, executives seem to have little incentive to break the current oligopoly. Professor Dan Breznitz of the Georgia Tech University, in a recent book Run of the Red Q Ueen, argues that executives may find it hard to invest heavily in a market dominance in the future if they are likely to be reassigned to rivals. If the authorities succeed in curbing vicious competition among enterprises, another result is not conducive to the development of China's Internet. Due to the lack of effective competition, China's internet speed has remained at an unsatisfactory low.

We can also roughly calculate the "network traffic congestion costs." By the end of 2010, China's internet users reached 457 million, and Chinese netizens averaged 18.3 hours a week on average, and 2.6 hours a day on average. Suppose that China's speed is not the current 100.9kb/s, but is close to the global average connection speed 230.4kb/s. The conservative assumption is that each netizen can save 15 minutes per day. How much is the value of the 15 minutes? The minimum hourly wage in many parts of China is more than 9 yuan. If the conservative 8 yuan calculation, then 15 minutes is 2 yuan. Due to the huge number of Chinese netizens, 457 million people multiplied by 2 yuan and 365 days, then 333.6 billion yuan a year. 333.6 billion yuan is the first operation of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail total investment of 220.9 billion yuan 1.5 times times. In other words, every year China's "network congestion costs" are the same as one and a half of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail construction costs, and this is only conservatively estimated.

What is the cause of China's network speed "not to power"?

From the technical level, China's network speed can be further accelerated. The main reason for the slow speed of China's network, on the one hand, is not enough coverage of optical networks. China's vast territory, the initial investment of the huge and complicated infrastructure work to make the full implementation of Optical network project will take time. On the other hand, the reform of mechanism system and the lack of competition are restricting the promotion of network speed.

Due to the excessive "peace" in our country's network access Service market, operators are congenitally deficient in the power to improve speed. However, with the promotion of the three-network integration project, more cooperative competition will emerge among operators, which will also promote the benign development of the market.

China's broadband network speeds up a long journey, it is understood that the current telecom has launched FTTH deployment work, and in several provinces have been carrying out the relevant pilot work. April 2010, Wuhan Telecom High-profile announced that its unique three-network integration network, technology and application services have matured, to Wuhan million families to provide telecommunications fiber-optic broadband services. In January this year, Shanghai Telecom began to popularize fiber-optic access to residential households. According to Shanghai Telecom general manager Weihua, by 2013, Shanghai will be the basic realization of home users fiber to the user and the rate of free multiplication, by 2015, the average bandwidth will reach 50 trillion.

At the operator level, it is important to attach importance to users ' feelings and to operate and develop in a positive manner. Telecommunications expert Zengjianqiu said in an interview: "For the operation of enterprises, if the broadband does not do a good job, it will not survive" "The future development of business needs high bandwidth guarantee." Operators not only to develop wired broadband, but also to develop wireless broadband, both have to ' march '. This is both responsibility and ' no way ', because only if we go forward can we have a future. "This is the industry's consensus on broadband construction," he said.