China's 450 billion yuan cost for three 3G networks questioned by insiders over whether the cost will be passed on to the public

by crazyhr on 2008-05-25 13:04:52

The "Notice" mentioned that 3 3G licenses will be issued to support the formation of 3 market competition entities with national network resources, relatively close strength and scale, full-service operation capabilities and strong competitiveness. According to a top communication enterprise executive in China, if building 3 3G national networks needs at least 450 billion yuan of funds. This person introduced that China Mobile needs 20 billion yuan of funds for large-scale construction of base stations, purchase of equipment and terminals domestically for undertaking TD network; China Unicom also needs 20 billion yuan of funds to build WCDMA network. "Currently, the costs required by China Telecom to upgrade from the existing CDMA network to CDMA2000 network is the best, because it can be realized through software upgrading, but even so...