China may be issued 3G licenses and other regional 3 national licence

The experts issued 3 national licence and some regional license is reasonable

Yesterday, the Chinese government issued 3G licenses will be less than previously planned quantity and 3G license may only cover part of the argument, the policy research and Telecommunications Research Institute, Dr. Chen Jinqiao said, this statement was not accurate. He personally believes that the actual consideration from the current domestic telecommunications market, the country may eventually issue 3 National licenses, and then issue a few regional licenses.

Dr. Chen Jinqiao in an interview yesterday, first made it clear that his personal considerations, domestic 3G licenses need to take full account of the capacity and the level of competition, the domestic telecom market therefore issued 3 3G licenses is a reasonable scheme in the competition level would be more reasonable. But he also believes that considering domestic strategic security, to solve the multiple non-public sectors of the economy into the telecom industry and foreign investment based on open, can be considered through the issuance of regional licenses way to solve this problem.

According to reports, in order to fully and effectively solve the government on the telecommunications universal service requirements, certain policy measures must be adopted to encourage operators to enter the Midwest and Rural Telecommunications market. Chen Jinqiao said that due to the needs of the majority of the western region of the 3G business will not be too much, more is still based on 2G voice service. Related operators in the western region to promote 3G will be underpowered.

As for the timing of the issuance of 3G licenses in advance to the first quarter of this year, he also explicitly denied. He said that the current 3G license issuance process did not advance, but not in the report referred to the early release. Allegedly, the relevant program is 3G licenses issued in MII, not finally submitted to the state council.

Currently, the six major telecom operators in China, China Telecom, China Netcom, the two largest fixed line operators on the most strong demand for 3G licenses. Before long, due to the domestic 3G licenses issued, rumors surrounding operators reorganization appears several times. Among them, the rumors about the split China Unicom, but also caused uproar. But in January 29th of this year, the SASAC spokesman said that the most recent period, the current restructuring of the domestic telecommunications companies, split China Unicom reported untrue.