XI: 3G Pull effect obvious unicom telecom share increase

⊙ Our correspondent piano in the 2009 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day conference, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Deputy Minister Xi said, since the issuance of 3G licences this January, February and March, China's new mobile users are more than 10 million, of which the new users in March 10.55 million, This shows that the 3G to the industry's pull effect is obvious.　　However, affected by the international financial crisis, this January-March, the entire industry completed the total telecommunications business volume of 586.77 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8% per cent, the growth rate of the downward trend. Xi said that in the first quarter of this year, the number of new telephone users, China Telecom and Chinese unicom share increased, China Mobile share decreased. According to statistics, 2008 China Mobile accounted for 93% of the new market share, to March this year, accounted for 68%. The goal of restructuring the telecom industry is to form three operators with similar strength, and China Mobile is not in agreement with the goal of a single big one.　　He hoped that China Telecom and Unicom would develop more quickly, together to make the "cake" bigger, in the "new cake" to achieve the first three points in the world. For the current economic operation of the communications industry, Xi concluded: "The industry's income growth continues to decline." From 1 to March, total industry and revenue growth were 10.8% and 1.86% respectively, compared with the same period last year, the year-on-year decrease of 17.9% and 9.9%, the total business growth rate decreased significantly. In addition, revenue growth in January, February and March per month was lower than the overall level of last year's 7% and last year's single month growth. However, thanks to value-added services and the rapid development of Mobile Broadband Foundation, the business has become a bright spot in the industry. Non-speech business accounted for the industry's main business income share of 37%, compared with 33.1% last year, a 3.9% increase. "The trend of mobile replacement fixed networks is still increasing." Xi introduced that January-March this year, fixed telephone users cumulative reduction of 5.495 million households, the total number of users have been reduced to 335 million households, the proportion of all telephone users is 33.3%, Was down 5.3% from a year earlier, while mobile phone users continued to grow at a high rate, with new users reaching 29.12 million from 1 to March, and up to 66.7% of all users.　　The gap between the two is still widening. In the first quarter of this year, the telecommunications industry has invested 120 billion yuan. ' 3G not only drives the telecoms industry, it also drives the manufacturing and content industries, Xi said. He introduced that the next three years 3G will create 1 trillion yuan of investment and consumption, including operators for network construction investment of 400 billion yuan, users to buy, replace mobile phones, Internet cards and other terminals 400 billion yuan, audio-visual and other unimpressed information services to create consumption of 1000 to 200 billion yuan.