The reporter learns from alcatel lucent exclusive, China telecom and China mobile has signed the framework agreement, formal use the passive optical network (PO N) solution as the key technology of the next generation of broadband network, and this year start in Shanghai, jiangsu, shandong, and other provinces and cities of project construction, to improve the current broadband network. This means that telecommunications, radio and television, state grid three enterprises began to compete for the next generation of broadband network market prelude.

Billions of dollars a year

The next generation broadband network is the broadband that should reach 100M BPS (the current average speed of domestic urban broadband household is 2M BPS). It is reported that it will become the next generation of the Internet, as well as the next generation of China's national backbone network physical network foundation.

According to the latest data from China Internet Network Information Center, as of June 30 this year, the number of broadband users in China was about 100 million. If it is upgraded to a faster next-generation broadband network, the market size will reach 200 billion yuan at a cost of 2,000 yuan per household.

The ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seven ministries issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Optical Fiber Broadband Network", in the next three years to build the next generation of broadband network investment will reach 150 billion. In addition, if the current average service charge of the broadband network is around 1,000 yuan per year, this alone will bring the operators hundreds of billions of yuan in annual revenue.

Competition among three major enterprises

As PO N technology has been identified as the core technology of the next generation broadband network both at home and abroad, some industry insiders believe that China Telecom and China Mobile's big deal means that telecom enterprises begin to formally lay out the next generation broadband network.

Zte research and development department qiu Hao introduced to reporters, telecom enterprises on such a large scale