Recently, MIIT issued the "Opinions On Open Access To Broadband Market (Draft)", which regulates that private enterprises should be encouraged to participate in the construction and operation of broadband access network infrastructure; encourage the private enterprises to participate in the relevant investment and carry out cooperation with infrastructure companies and provide broadband resale services etc. The main three telecom operators shall not sign exclusive agreements with private enterprises and dynamic adjustment mechanism of prices should be established.
The first batch of pilot cities include: Taiyuan, Shenyang, Harbin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing and Chengdu. The pilot time is 3 years.
For private enterprises that participate in the pilot, the minimum amount of subscribed registered capital is CNY 20 million, and they should have over 3 years working experience in telecom industry, the person in charge of enterprise technologies shall have more than 8 years’ experience in broadband network construction and operation management, and should be qualified to provide long time services and assurance ability of network and information security.