The broadband price drops by 18.7% in one year

According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of fixed broadband subscribers in China has reached 166 million since March of this year when China implemented the "Broadband Universal Speed-raising Project." The proportion of users with 2M and 4M or above reached 92.6% and 54%, respectively, which was higher than at the end of 2011. 14%; The number of newly added fiber-to-the-home households exceeds 23 million, accounting for 65% of the annual target of 35 million; the national average unit bandwidth price has decreased by 18.7% from the end of 2011. Domestic broadband targets have exceeded expectations.

On March 30, 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology formally launched the “Radio Speed ​​Widening Speed-Enlarging Project” with the goal of achieving more than 250 million broadband access users by 2015. The urban households with access to broadband capacity averaged 20 M, and rural households reached an average of 4 M or more. Solve the problems that have been criticized by consumers over the years as "broadband is not wide, speed is not fast, and costs are expensive".

In response to this general goal, Shang Bing, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that it will organize the implementation of urban fiber-to-building plans, speed up the process of fiber-to-building access in urban areas, and implement rural broadband access to villages to promote broadband in rural areas. Regional popularity and speed increase.

Since May 2012, the three major telecom operators have successively proposed the 2012 broadband construction target. China Telecom will add 25 million fiber-optic homes to households, add 16 million fixed broadband subscribers, add more than 10,000 administrative villages to broadband, use 60% more than 4M broadband subscribers, and add Wi- There are 300,000 Fi hotspots, and the unit bandwidth price will continue to decrease during the year.

China Mobile will add 1.4 million wireless hotspots and continue to promote the second phase of TD-LTE trials.

China Unicom will increase FTTH coverage for more than 10 million households, increase broadband accessibility to 93% in administrative villages in 10 northern provinces, increase fiber accessibility to 72%, and add 300,000 wireless access (AP) hotspot coverage.