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China Obtained Success in Speed Improvement & Tariff Cut of Network

Updated:2017/3/7 15:59

The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China held a briefing on March 6 which introduced the stepped-up efforts to speed improvement & tariff cut of the mobile network.

Deputy Minister of MIIT Chen Zhaoxiong said MIIT has been promoting the implementation of "improving the speed and cutting down the tariff" with the authorities in recent years and achieved partial success.

Speed Improvement

First, the Chinese government planned to advance the Broadband China strategy, investing more than 880 billion renminbi in the basic telecommunication corporations in these two years. The National Development and Reform Commission required the central government to invest with budgets of CNY1 billion and to launch 48 billion renminbi fund dedicated to construction, building world's largest fixed optical network and 4G mobile network. Second, China has propagated telecommunications universal services. With over CNY30 billion dedicated fund from the central government, optical fiber network construction is supported in 101,000 administrative villages including 31,000 poor villages. Third, China has optimized the Internet backbone network structure. BY the end of 2016, China's average fixed broadband access rate reaches 49M, 7.4 times the level of two years ago while its fiber broadband users account for 76.6 percent, up from 34.1 percent, pushing into third place worldwide and China produces more than half of world's 4G users, which hit 770 million.

Tariff Cut

China's three major carriers have kept promoting speed improvement with no price increase and the "data traffic not cleared" service, phased out long distance & roaming charges in some domestic areas and launched local discount package. With continuous declines in network tariff over the past two years, the average national fixed broadband tariff has been off 86.2 percent and the average national mobile broadband data flow tariff has fallen by 64.7 percent.

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