Wuhan 10M Fiber Broadband puzzle: Cover 500,000 households only 1/5

The optical fiber conduit (Oriental IC diagram) which will be laid into the ground is the hardware, service content is the software reporter Jinzy Jing yang Guangdong intern Huangting compared with traditional copper wire transmission, fiber bandwidth is millions of times times larger; At present, the price of a meter of fiber is cheaper than a metre long noodles, let alone compared with copper wire. Wuhan as the first pilot city of fiber-optic home, fiber-optic network has been able to "cover" 500,000, but the last access users home, enjoy the speed of information superhighway, but only 1/5.　　What the hell is going on here? The reality of the trap covers many users too few people live in Huazhong University of the Purple song community, Dr. Zhao, a few years ago home through the fiber. Before the installation of fiber broadband "to see a 90-minute movie card seven or eight times, download an ordinary movie to more than 40 minutes," now Dr. Zhao not only surf the internet to see the film is very fluent, but also enjoy IPTV (interactive TV) services. "It is said that using fiber-optic broadband in the future can also enjoy telemedicine and distance education."　　"Speaking of this, Dr. Zhao is very much in anticipation. Today's Society Mercedes-Benz in the information highway, however, with the explosion era and the upgrading of various multimedia applications, "copper wire" as the transmission medium of the traditional information high-speed network, has gradually shown the disadvantage of bandwidth. According to the deputy chief engineer of Yang Ji, Wuhan, the price of copper rose 100 times times since 2000, and the current price of one meter fiber is cheaper than a meter long noodles; In addition, the bandwidth of copper transmission cable is limited, and fiber bandwidth is millions of times times larger than that of copper.　　In this case, the ability to carry more information, faster transmission of "optical fiber", is considered as the first choice for the next generation of transmission media. Wuhan is an important production base of optical electronic information industry in China, which has advantages in optical fiber technology research and manufacturing. With this good foundation, Wuhan successively in 2004 and 2008 launched the "Optical fiber Home" pilot and "Light City Plan" Construction goals, both are trying to achieve in 2011, Wuhan "Fiber-optic households" reached 500,000 households, and simultaneously achieve high-speed Internet, network television, High-definition television, global eye, distance education,　　High bandwidth services such as telemedicine. But the awkward is, now Wuhan optical access to cover the number of households has reached more than 500,000, fiber-optic broadband also more than 10 trillion, but the real fiber access to their home number of households is not much.　　The reporter has learned from the Wuhan Information Industry office that at present the total number of fiber-optic households in Wuhan is only about 100,000, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of households covered. The industry commonly used "last kilometer" to refer to the end of the user terminal Equipment connection, in this sense, the current fiber-optic households are undoubtedly facing the "last kilometer" of the confusion. So how did this happen?　　The reporter made some visits to this end.　　Fiber Three ask: The high price of fiber-optic households no one should? Operator: Optical fiber broadband parity at present, the mainstream broadband access in the market is ADSL, fiber broadband as a new thing, the price and ADSL broadband access compared toIs the bottom competitive? The reporter recently called the China Telecom Wuhan branch in customer identity, inquired about the price of two kinds of broadband services in detail.　　According to the telecom customer service staff, the current broadband access costs include the initial loading and service charges, and the regional business Hall will be based on the situation in the region, the access costs to implement different degrees of discount, "so can only provide a standard price for reference." The customer service staff told reporters that the current ADSL broadband access initial installation fee of 298 yuan, 1 trillion bandwidth packets for 900 yuan, 1.5 trillion for 999 yuan, 2 trillion for 1499 yuan. and the initial installation cost of fiber-optic broadband service is 300 yuan, 2 gigabit Internet service +3 trillion ITV (interactive TV, is the three network integration services on the application of products, users through the broadband Internet access at the same time, can enjoy ITV television programs on demand, look back, etc. services), the package year service fee is 1399 yuan. Compared to each other, 2 trillion fiber broadband price than ADSL service charge less than 100 yuan/year, and customer service staff also told reporters: "If you do not use ITV, then the bandwidth involved can also be used in broadband Internet access, that is, there are 3 megabytes of bandwidth upgrade space."　　"It can be said that in the 2M bandwidth requirements level, fiber-optic broadband in both price and speed are obvious advantages." It is understood that a few years ago the cost of fiber services is still more expensive. According to the information from the reporter's enquiry, in 2005, the Optical Valley Purple, a small community, each user access to fiber-optic broadband initial installation fee of 408 yuan, the monthly use fee of 180 yuan, such a year for the use of 2160 yuan, which does not include TV program fees, fixed telephone charges, users use higher costs. "Now, with the production of optical fiber manufacturing gradually scale, the user's use cost is no longer a problem."　　Professor Liu Deming, director of the next Generation Internet Access system at Huazhong University of Hust, told reporters.　　Second question: New technology is inevitable instability? Demonstration community: At present, the technology is mature price is not a problem, technical stability?　　Recently, the reporter came to wuchang South Lake City Taoyuan District, which is "the first fiber to the family demonstration community", the owners of the community as the earliest experience of optical fiber broadband consumers, their use of the impression, with a sample significance. It is understood that "fiber-optic broadband" in this community was accepted as twists, before and after a total of two operators. First, the first operator to advertise to the owners that "optical fiber to the user network speed up to 10 trillion", but the landlord Miss Wang told reporters, "at that time did not usher in ' fraction second download a movie," The speed of optical fiber experience, on the contrary is at night online, download a movie to two hours or more, to see a 5-minute video, Jam six or seven times of painful memories. "The fiber-optic broadband is a misnomer, and the owners are very much in the comments. After investigation, we learned that the first operator said 10 trillion is actually a number of households to enjoy a 10 trillion port, not every user alone, so that, with a lot of people, the speed will slow down. In this regard, operators to explain to users, this is mainly in the construction process is the first generation of light equipment and technology, and all aspects ofImmature, leading to such a situation.　　However, industry insiders believe that this shared use, is not the true meaning of fiber-optic households. After several representations between the landlord and the operator, finally in April this year, the second operator to enter the city of Taoyuan to pave the new fiber-optic qualification, said the "provision of speed of 4 trillion, and for single households alone", the owners used to find that the port alone to enjoy the 4 gigabit network compared to the previous 10 trillion share a lot faster. Miss Wang said: "Only now enjoy the charm of optical fiber speed broadband." "According to the Wuhan Information Industry office, development so far, fiber-optic technology has matured in the household, will not appear in urban Taoyuan district of this situation." And in the choice of optical fiber operators, formerly a community only one operator to choose from, the market has no competition, the user did not compare, the price down, services can not keep up.　　Now is not the same, a community has more than one fiber to the operators of the competition, consumers can choose their favorite, no longer eat "stuffy loss."　　Three questions: Application scarcity has not yet been used?　　Industry experts: Content Service is not the main reason because the price is not high, technology has matured, then why the optical fiber broadband access is not large-scale "fly into ordinary people home"?　　In this regard, Professor Liu Deming that, "fiber-optic household" to the future of human life to provide unlimited possibilities, but at present this possibility is still in the research stage, has not been applied on a large scale, people can not fully feel the fiber-optic household to their own life brought about by the changes. He believes that the current Internet content is not very rich, and content use is precisely the real value of fiber-optic households, which affect the use of fiber-optic broadband users.　　If the fiber-optic broadband to a highway, compared to the previous copper wire medium, the highway is wider, can carry more traffic, but now the problem is that there are not many cars running. Wuhan Postal Branch of the deputy Chief Engineer Yang Ji also with Liu Deming hold the same view. He introduced, for example, optical fiber after entering the household, can provide users with higher bandwidth, users can see three-dimensional television, but now the three-dimensional television has not been popular, the current mainstream Internet applications require more than 2 trillion in bandwidth, which makes the high-speed advantages of optical fiber can not be very good embodiment, "the installation of optical fiber and not installed fiber, The difference is not shown, which hinders the spread of fiber. In addition, many consumers and even operator representatives to reporters that the fiber into the door, all or according to their own needs to decide.　　A consumer told reporters that their home is 1.5 trillion, on weekdays to see the movie online is not a card, 1.5 trillion is more than enough, do not need to take the fiber to their home, "unless there are more attractive applications, I will consider access to fiber."　　In view of this, Tang Xiongyan, vice president of China Netcom Research Institute, said that the focus of fiber broadband service access should be from expanding the scope of broadband coverage to explore the broadband business model to attract more users to consider the use of fiber-optic broadband. and Wuhan Postal Institute senior engineer Zhang Jijun told reporters that the current domestic enterprisesDo mainly do is the optical fiber network cover construction, and then according to user needs, just decided not to do fiber-optic households.　　In this way, not only the number of fiber-optic households in Wuhan is not much, in other cities in the country, fiber-optic households have not really made a real point, "Therefore, the lack of adequate user groups, which to a certain extent, also inhibit content providers in the content production of enthusiasm, resulting in the lack of high-speed broadband applications of fiber."　　The embarrassment of the "last mile" of fiber-optic households seems to be mired in a causal cycle of anarchy. The way operators can't "fight alone" is really no solution?　　"There are people in the industry that Japan's fiber-optic development of the road, in fact, can give some inspiration to the country." It is understood that in January 2002 Japan's fiber-optic households only 12,000 households, and only after a year, the number of users has soared to 1.6 million households, accounting for the total number of broadband access 10%.　　The most important reason for promoting the rapid development of fiber-optic households is that such a wide range of applications as IP telephony, online gaming, digital photos and e-books, broadband video and telemedicine are used to make consumers feel the pleasure of using fiber-optic broadband and to develop consumer spending habits using fiber-optic broadband. In this regard, some analysts believe that the development of foreign fiber-optic households is not the result of the operators alone, but a lot of content providers are also actively involved in the large-scale access service providers have their own content production companies, public content producers have also designed a large number of applications, equipment manufacturers through the integration of bundled business and equipment, Enhance their visibility and sales.　　These are the experiences that can be used for reference in China. And in the river, in order to allow fiber-optic household speed up, Wuhan has also put forward specific policies to promote the development of fiber-optic households, including the formulation of policy documents to guide developers in the development of new developments in the synchronous access to optical fiber; joint business, education, finance, health, entertainment and other industries, enrich the "fiber content", so that consumers can enjoy a wider network　　Distance education, network games, E-commerce services and so on. It is predicted that the next three years, China's optical fiber broadband network construction investment will be more than 150 billion yuan, new broadband users will be more than 50 million. Industry insiders pointed out that Wuhan has a good foundation for the development of light electronic information industry, and as the national "fiber-optic household" of the first pilot, if the resolution of the "last kilometer" across the future in the fiber broadband services industry, will have a huge market development space.