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Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
With the issuance of the 3G license, China's telecommunication industry has focused its resources to speed up the development of this new technology. China's top three telecommunication operators, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, have invested 80 billion yuan to boost the third-generation (3G) network so far this year, according to a release by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Wednesday.
China Mobile, the leading mobile network operator, has opened 3G service in 38 cities based on the domestically-developed TD-SCDMA 3G standard, and is expected to expand the service to 238 cities by the end of this year.
China Telecom has also offered 3G service using the U.S.-developed CDMA EVDO network in 342 cities, while China Unicom has expanded its network based on Europe's WCDMA standards to 100 cities.
The top three operators, which control the whole market of China's telecommunication industry, have started 3G services with different features. Customer bases have been expanded from the traditional cell phone users to internet users.
It is estimated that the growth of China's multimedia industry, e-commerce and cultural creative industries stimulated by the 3G technology will generate at least 2 to 3 trillion yuan of social investment.
According to China Internet Network Information Center, the country's Internet users reached 338 million by the first half of this year. Mobile Internet users rose 32.1 percent in the first half of this year to 155 million, boosted by the launch of 3G service. |
China News 
