Very good panel discussion today on infrastructure.

John Craven from Terranovate was a stand out presenter providing insights into China technology infrastructure roll out.

Some of the data is staggering:

Currently there are:

388,000,000 Mobile phones in circulation
350,000,000 Fixed line phones
Over 12 Billion SMS messages were sent out over Chinese New Year
40,000,000 people use colour ring back tones
There are 10,000,000 anticipated 3G subscribers by the end of this year, provided the governement grants the licenses.

By the end of this year there will be 111,000,000 Internet users in China, against 109,000,000 users in the USA. This will make the Chinese Internet the 500 pound gorilla.

58% of users are Broadband subscribers
83% are urban dwellers
There are 25,000,000 paying customers for on line games as at December 2005
And…
US$35Billion was spent on comms infrastructure in 2005 alone!

Beijing has a massive online infrastructure plan taking it through to 2010.

By then there will be 100% Broadband coverage.
They will spend US$12 Billion on this.
There will be 48,000 major projects split over 5 groups, (including network infrastructure, application projects that include e-government, education, community and enterprise), Infrastructure resource projects.

At the heart of this will be the Digital Olympics project called “Millions of Families” which is all about training people. And the Digital City project will require 1100Km of fibre to be laid.

It will be the Chinese Century.

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