Answer to China Telecom’s five-year optical network construction: Fulfilling the broadband dream
As time goes by, the world has changed dramatically.
When you and I are accustomed to "a click of the mouse, life is settled"; when the smiling faces of parents far away in their hometown are clearly reflected on the mobile phone screen; when uncles and aunts in rural areas all open Taobao stores; when we Watch high-definition movies online on the sofa at home; when distant frontiers also step onto the beat of the "Internet"... Have you ever thought that all of this is inseparable from the network of light? It all happened quietly, in just five years .
On February 16, 2011, China Telecom took the lead in the industry to launch the "Broadband China·Optical Network City" project. In August 2013, the State Council issued the "Broadband China Optical Network City" project. China” implementation plan, including “Broadband China” in the national strategy.
As China’s broadband leader, China Telecom has achieved three major broadband speed increases in five years, allowing 270 million households to use optical fiber. Its broadband ports have tripled, and its optical network covers hundreds of cities. “All-optical” "Network provinces", "all-optical network cities" and "all-optical network counties" continue to appear, and more users are enjoying extremely fast, stable and reliable broadband network services.
Under the leadership and promotion of China Telecom, "Broadband China" moves forward bravely.
The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to build "Broadband China": connecting thousands of miles of rivers and mountains
Five years in a blink of an eye , Copper is the first to phase out optical fiber.
During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China Telecom actively carried out the "Broadband China" special campaign and vigorously built optical fiber networks.
Since 2011. , a total of approximately 200 billion yuan has been invested in broadband fiber optic transformation, fiber-to-the-home construction, and backbone network expansion and upgrading. At the same time, it has actively explored cooperation and joint construction with private capital in the broadband field, promoted the development of the mixed-ownership economy, and attracted a total of nearly 7 billion yuan in investment. .
The reporter learned from the China Telecom Network Development Department that as of the end of December 2015, China Telecom's wired broadband network capabilities had doubled: the number of broadband ports exceeded 300 million, reaching " Three times as many as at the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan period; 100M fiber-optic home coverage covers about 270 million households, and the core urban areas of the leading southern provinces have basically all had 100M access capabilities.
ChinaNet Backbone Internet The bandwidth reached 113T, and the international export bandwidth exceeded 1T, an increase of 5.6 times and 2.5 times respectively compared with the end of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period.
At the same time, mobile broadband networks have also gained It has achieved unprecedented development: During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China Telecom's cumulative investment exceeded 140 billion yuan. On the one hand, it continued to promote 3G network optimization and quality improvement, and the network covered 100% of cities, towns and more than 87% of administrative villages; on the other hand, it continued to promote 3G network optimization and quality improvement. On the one hand, under the guidance of national policies, we actively carry out 4G hybrid networking trials and build 4G networks efficiently and quickly. By the end of 2015, the network has effectively covered all areas above the township level (developed townships in the east) across the country.
Same.According to the market and user traffic conditions, a faster 4G network will be deployed in a timely manner to increase the Internet speed to 300Mbps.
According to the third-party national test results at the end of November 2015, the good-to-good ratio of 4G network uplink and downlink speeds in the coverage area of China Telecom reached more than 90%, and the good rate of web page opening delay reached more than 85%.
In rural areas, China Telecom has invested more than 60 billion yuan during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period to accelerate the construction of rural information infrastructure and the special construction of "broadband rural areas" to comprehensively improve the coverage of rural broadband networks.
Currently, China Telecom’s wired broadband network has covered 85% of administrative villages across the country. The proportion of administrative villages with optical cables has increased by 13 percentage points compared with the end of the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, reaching 79%. extension of natural villages; the 3G/4G network coverage rate in administrative villages reached 92%, making a huge contribution to narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas and realizing the "entering villages and households" of information.
In the past five years, China Telecom has overcome many difficulties in the construction of optical network projects: for example, urban communities are expensive to enter, returns are low in rural areas, and construction in remote areas is difficult.
China Telecom adapts to local conditions and takes different measures in different regions to strive to fulfill the promise of "Broadband China": In Shanghai, China Telecom has implemented a total of seven major broadband speed increases, and by the end of 2014, it has fully completed the optical network in urbanized areas. coverage. By the end of 2015, one million users had access to 100Mbps broadband, and the average Internet speed exceeded 35Mbps. Shanghai’s “smart city” construction has become a national benchmark; in Sichuan, While participating in the formulation of standards for promoting fiber-to-the-home, China Telecom strives to obtain government support, break through the idea of gradually improving access to fixed broadband networks, and follow the leap-forward development path of "all-fiber, high starting point, one step, urban and rural coordination", 2015 In September 2020, China Telecom built the country's first "all-optical network province" in Sichuan; in Gyirong Town, Shigatse, Tibet, the roads that experienced the Nepal earthquake have not yet been fully repaired.The dug cable trench was washed away by flash floods before the cables could be laid. After more than a month of hard work, China Telecom's construction team completed the optical network transformation task with high quality and quantity.
By the end of 2015, 100% of all counties and urban areas in Tibet will have full optical network coverage.
Continuous implementation of "speed increase and fee reduction" over the past five years: benefiting hundreds of millions of users
Network construction is often successful, and user interests are at ease.
When China Telecom launched the "Broadband China·Optical Network City" project in 2011, it publicly promised to continuously reduce tariffs while increasing speeds: According to the project goals, the access bandwidth of China Telecom's broadband users It will jump more than 10 times in 3 to 5 years and will continue to increase rapidly; tariffs will usher in a "jump period" in about 3 years and will continue to decline.
In 2015, on the basis of the original speed increase and fee reduction, we conscientiously implemented the national broadband "speed increase and fee reduction" policy requirements, through "speed increase without price increase", "traffic is not cleared", and "gradually canceling domestic broadband Measures such as "long distance and roaming charges" have continuously reduced the unit charges of broadband networks, benefiting hundreds of millions of broadband users.
During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the speed and quality of users' access to China Telecom's broadband Internet network have been greatly improved.
Taking only 2013 to 2015 as an example, the average access rate of wired broadband users continued to grow, from 7.8Mbps at the end of 2013 to 11Mbps at the end of 2014., an increase of 30%.
The average access rate increased to 25.4Mbps at the end of 2015, an increase of 131% compared with 2014.
The peak download rate of mobile users has increased from 3.1Mbps in 2014, which was mainly 3G, to 150Mbps, which is currently mainly 4G. The speed of 45 cities with 4G has reached 300Mbps.
At the same time, business rates have dropped significantly.
The person in charge of China Telecom’s marketing department told reporters that the company has been working hard to reduce communication service charges to benefit consumers.
Before the country put forward the call to “increase speeds and reduce fees”, from 2011 to 2014, the average price of mobile network data traffic dropped from 0.14 yuan/MB to 0.12 yuan/MB, a decrease of 14.3%.
In 2015, when the country proposed "increasing speeds and reducing fees," the average traffic tariff dropped another 31% to 0.082 yuan/MB, completing the annual 30% reduction target ahead of schedule.
The unit bandwidth price of wired broadband is also declining. From the end of 2014 to the end of 2015, the drop reached 58.8%, from 4.9 yuan/Mbps to 2.02 yuan/Mbps, and the over-fulfillment annual decrease was 35%. goal.
There is no limit to the improvement of network speed, and China Telecom's sincerity in giving back to users remains consistent.
In 2016, the company will focus on the two cores of "4G speed increase" and "optical broadband speed increase" and continue to promote the construction of optical networks and in-depth coverage of 4G networks.
In terms of wired broadband, it is planned to basically complete the optical transformation of residential areas by the end of 2016, and all cities in the south will be built into "optical network cities".
The coverage rate of optical fiber to the home (FTTH) in the southern region has reached 93%, and the coverage rate in townships has reached 88%; the optical fiber transformation rate of administrative villages in the south that have been connected to broadband has reached 56%, and the broadband coverage rate in administrative villages has reached 93%. %.
Through measures such as free broadband speed increase and 100M broadband promotion, it is expected that by the end of 2016, the average access speed will reach 30Mbps, and the proportion of 100M broadband users will reach 30%; 100% of enterprises above designated size will achieve optical coverage, and 100Mbps for large manufacturing enterprises Optical fiber dedicated line access coverage reaches 100%.
On this basis, it is expected that the unit bandwidth price will drop by 30% throughout the year, benefiting 30 million users.
In terms of mobile broadband, we continue to improve 4G service capabilities, achieving basic full coverage of 4G networks and a peak download rate of 300Mbps for mobile users in more than 300 cities, and continue to reduce the average unit price of traffic to allow more users to enjoy Better 4G network and more favorable 4G tariffs.
