MII: by the end of 2007 China's all administrative villages will be on the phone

[eNet] Silicon Valley dynamic news in April 4th, the Ministry of information industry announced, will address 10600 did not call the administrative village phone in 2006, making China the village phone rate increases by 1.5%, reaching 98.6%. According to the plan, by the end of 2007, all of the country's administrative villages will be on the telephone.

It is in the planning, the prior to the convening of the meeting of the deployment of the village phone work. According to the requirements of the six basic telecom operators must solve in 10600 villages on the phone not on the phone, next year 10000, to ensure that before the end of 2007 to all administrative villages on the phone, to improve the rural telephone penetration rate. For call village, be "based on the number of health insurance, increase farmers' installed users, to meet the basic communication network to the majority of farmers in the telephone demand."

The township has been on the phone, to build and improve the rural Internet access platform, part of the conditions of the township to provide broadband data services. At the same time to encourage the development of information resources suitable for rural areas, rich rural information services, and carry out relevant pilot work.

At the same time, the Ministry of information industry also requires operators to take effective measures to solve the problems currently do not have Internet access capacity of the township, "at least can provide narrowband dial-up function, where there is a demand in the business should actively open broadband Internet access, to further expand the capacity of agricultural village, the construction of rural information service platform. The special for each basic telecommunications business and value-added telecom enterprises are called for, hope that they actively participate in rural informatization construction, vigorously develop suitable for rural areas and close to the farmers' information content and characteristics of service."

According to reports, to cooperate with the enterprises to complete the task in the village, MII will actively promote the establishment of universal service fund at the same time, to continue to provide funding and policy support, and organization of operators in the pilot project of Hunan and Jiangxi to build up Easy Access certification testing equipment, at the same time, to support the development of new rural communication products.