China's 3G user base to increase to 60m
By Zhu Shenshen |
January 28, 2010, Thursday
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CHINA'S 3G user base will rise fourfold to about 60 million by the end of this year and it will boost the development of integrated circuit and network convergence, the top industry regulator said yesterday.
China now has nearly 15 million 3G users and a third of them use phones based on the country's own 3G technology, TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a press conference in Beijing yesterday.
As 3G only started on the Chinese mainland last year, there is scope for more and more people to try the new technology, said Zhang Feng, an official in charge of telecommunications industry under MIIT.
The country issued 3G licenses to three telecom operators - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - last year.
Based on the new technology, people can have access to high-speed Internet services such as film download and video call on handsets.
Chen Jinqiao, deputy chief engineer at MIIT's China Academy of Telecommunication Research, forecast the number of 3G users in China will hit 60 million this year.
Besides 3G, China will also speed up the unification of its Internet, telecom and radio and television networks, according to MIIT.
The country will carry out a test run for the merger by the end of 2012, with full completion by 2015, according to a task force set up by the State Council, China's Cabinet.
China now has nearly 15 million 3G users and a third of them use phones based on the country's own 3G technology, TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access), officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a press conference in Beijing yesterday.
As 3G only started on the Chinese mainland last year, there is scope for more and more people to try the new technology, said Zhang Feng, an official in charge of telecommunications industry under MIIT.
The country issued 3G licenses to three telecom operators - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - last year.
Based on the new technology, people can have access to high-speed Internet services such as film download and video call on handsets.
Chen Jinqiao, deputy chief engineer at MIIT's China Academy of Telecommunication Research, forecast the number of 3G users in China will hit 60 million this year.
Besides 3G, China will also speed up the unification of its Internet, telecom and radio and television networks, according to MIIT.
The country will carry out a test run for the merger by the end of 2012, with full completion by 2015, according to a task force set up by the State Council, China's Cabinet.
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