Will gigabit broadband exacerbate China's rich-poor gap?

The human demand for speed is endless, even if I am surfing the internet is just browsing news and collecting materials, occasionally to see an old TV series, there is a 4M, 6M is enough, but I believe that the more high-speed bandwidth for consumers must be very helpful, but also believe that with the signal optimization, With the improvement of communication media and the rapid change of Internet terminals, telecom technicians can certainly provide more and more network speed, for example, the transformation from copper to optical fiber of the transmission medium is a milestone in the field of human communication. The cables are spread in metal medium and require a lot of consumption at both distance and speed. Optical fiber is the use of light in the glass or plastic fiber in the total reflection of the principle of the light conduction tool, based on this, optical signals in the transmission of very low loss, but also from electromagnetic interference, in fact, from the results of some laboratories, The maximum speed of copper cable can only reach 40M, and the rate of optical fiber is not ...

I fully support the concept of gigabit broadband, but the problem is that China's existing telecommunications environment can not get gigabit broadband, or outdated, and, moreover, our "broadband China" strategy is not full. In this context, the concept of gigabit can be mentioned, but it is impossible to commercial, but also can not be used to confuse consumers ' money. If pushed, it will only end up with a "harmful" tragedy that will exacerbate the gap between rich and poor in China.

Gigabit Broadband, a kind of instant noodle marketing

According to the definition of the Ministry of Industry, Gigabit broadband is a very specific concept: from broadband Access service provider's broadband service access point bras to the user terminal This section of the link information transmission rate reached gigabit. Translation into a popular description is that thousand trillion speed only to the consumer computer and mobile phone terminals, can be regarded as the standard, and those sharing concept, or a cell thousand trillion of the argument should not be "honorific" for vague, but naked fraud, after all, the Ministry of the Software has already given the rules.

In fact, China's fake broadband events frequently, Mo said Gigabit broadband, even within 10M speed are often not in place, there are netizens ridicule, now look at telecom operators broadband leaflets, like the appreciation of instant noodles ads, we all know that those ribs, seafood is actually just a bag of flavor of seasoning bag. Today, the gigabit broadband publicity again exudes "instant noodles" style of taste, but also full of Chinese playing the style of the river, is only a project in Beijing to complete a community, hurriedly announced that "the mainland is the opening of the personal user gigabit Broadband era door", Some operators even optical fiber and light cats are not willing to access the operator dare to tell consumers their home speed has been gigabit ... It's ridiculous and extremely pathetic.

Behind this phenomenon, not only private enterprises and the two-level operators of the quick success, more deep-seated reason is that China's telecommunications industry is still dominated by oligarchs, the competition is very inadequate. According to the latest data show that the national fixed broadband Access users 200 million, and China Unicom and the total number of Chinese telecom users to 170 million, accounting for nearly 90% of the share, leaving other broadband users of the resources are only more than 30 million. Recently, these enterprises jointly hold red "gigabit broadband" concept, they know that they are in the nonsense, they also know that we know they know they are in the nonsense, but the pursuit of the road of differentiation is its only way of life, full of sour and helpless. In addition, every time the public crisis, the perpetrator is always temporary, the same as each of the false bandwidth events are these two-tier operators, of course, this may be true.

Bandwidth vs. demand, who is pushing who?

In fact, the broadband business group launched the "gigabit broadband" concept, is not completely ill desperately, they bet-type to take the differential route, it is also a fancy in the high-end community service needs to upgrade. A broadband trader, COO, said in an interview: "The high-end user market, such as villas, high-end apartments, there have been hundreds of megabytes can not meet the situation of bandwidth requirements", and this is their opportunity. But the author thinks, these upscale community's demand is only the individual phenomenon, is not enough to support broadband companies to fight the state-owned monopoly of telecommunications enterprises, the larger market is from the internet of things, large data medical, education, intelligent home popularization, unfortunately, they may have no way to live at that time, even if the survival, may not be able to digest this fat.

Is bandwidth widening driving user demand upgrades, or consumer demand to promote the development of bandwidth, which is tantamount to chicken eggs, eggs, chicken, but the law of domestic telecommunications development, more likely to use the upfront bandwidth investment to stimulate user demand, such as the now advocated 4G, 5G operators are the first large-scale investment, and then , and constantly stimulate the user needs to upgrade and even coerce consumers to enter a new era, this approach is very seemingly despicable, but also not what enterprises dare to play, in fact, the world does not have a company to move as rich and capricious, they do in TD-SCDMA, but also dare to invest heavily in 4G infrastructure, And stop the GSM network new, to a certain extent, coerce consumers to turn the net. Now, the two-tier broadband business is also thinking, they also want to use the concept of speculation, to accelerate China's early entry into the "Gigabit broadband" era, so that their differentiation on the road has a false advantage, but they do not have "state-owned" continuous financial support, obviously, Telecom, unicom than they are more suitable for this sucker.

What's more, the gigabit broadband era is more than just a fiber, a few cats can handle, it is a systematic project, need to go up and down the linkage, it is because of this, the author is not optimistic, now the broadband business led the development of the millennium, they may have this technology, but there is no such capital, mainly lack of money.

Broadband slow go: good common Internet?

I am not optimistic about the short-term prospects in gigabit broadband, in fact, even if the author is optimistic, they have no way to make a breakthrough in the short term, not to mention what brings China into the "personal user Gigabit Broadband" era, and, nowadays, China's telecommunications industry has more important things to do, that is, how to balance the speed of different regions of the country, To know that the vast countryside still stay at the level of 1M and 2M, even though some realized the fiber to the village, but also often due to the facilities caused by the problem of optical fiber became a device, some villagers often tangled, this thin rope, is good to dry clothes, or bundles of sacks good?

Based on the development of China's telecom industry, the author strongly does not support the "Gigabit broadband" project at this stage, which will in some degree aggravate the gap between the rich and poor in China's society. In fact, the Google fiber project, although also a bit of a leap forward, but also basically in line with the "broadband U.S." development strategy, their goal is in the United States 34 cities at the same time the introduction of gigabit broadband services, covering more than 50% U.S. households , some developed countries in Europe also put forward to achieve the goal of 30Mbps full coverage of speed by 2020 ... But the goal of China's broadband provider is to focus on the high-end community, high-grade villas, test water must also only happen in the "first-tier City", which is not too good for the harmony of the whole society: upscale community, looking at 4K high-definition TV, download a film is as simple as a micro-blog; and the vast countryside of the courtyard, can only look at PPT-type webcast, the difficulty of the microblogging is like downloading a movie.

I would suggest that these two-level broadband operators give priority to rural markets, after all, the government's "broadband China" strategy is a bit constipated, needs more power to support, if the control of resource allocation, they can even use policy blockbuster, more reliable than gigabit broadband, but also more social significance.

China's problem is never a technical problem, but a system problem, there are always people get too much, and people always get too little, and those who get too much, always go to rob to get too few people. According to China Weekly data, 1% of China's households hold 44% of China's wealth, some people put hundreds of millions of of cash in the home, not to finish the mold, and some families annual income of less than 192 yuan, which is the main reason for the increasing social hostility in China. Moreover, the author has always believed that people are born unfair, this includes not only the family, birth, look on the hard distance, but also in the access to knowledge and happiness of the perception of ability, gigabit broadband projects if only appear in high-grade community, will further pull the difference between different areas of knowledge resources, after all, The channels of human access to knowledge have shifted from books to the Internet. Admittedly, it's a bit cruel to put this huge social responsibility on the shoulders of broadband providers, but just hope they can "not be evil"!