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Plan to merge 3 major networks over 5 years
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-30 09:01
China plans to merge three major networks - Internet, telecommunications and
broadcasting - into one in the next five years, said a telecommunications expert
yesterday.
The merger of three networks has been included into the 11th Five-Year Plan
(2006-2010), which is still in the making, said Song Junde, professor at Beijing
University's School of Post and Telecommunications. He addressed a forum on
telecommunication networks in Beijing.
However, with the broadcasting network under one supervisor and the other two
under another, their integration is expected to encounter resistance from vested
interests.
As proposed in the five-year program, China is to enhance the construction of
its broadband, digital television and next-generation Internet, so as to achieve
their merger in the future, said Song.
The merger, Song said, will optimize the structure of China's
telecommunications industry and facilitate the upgrading and reform of the
networks.
China's network equipment market reached 22.77 billion yuan (US$2.84 billion)
last year, up 33.1 percent over the previous year.
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