Guangdong Netcom purchase WiMAX equipment
5/9/2006, From Local newspaper, Guangdong Netcom has signed agreement with 2 WiMAX(802.16d) equipment suppliers to purchase their products. According to the full plan of Guangdong Netcom, the purchase will amount to 280million RMB. After Guangdong Netcom, Shanghai, Jiangsu and some other province also will follow their example. Guangdong Netcom will deploy these equipments to each city of the province. They will focous on low-end enterprise customer and high end personal customer using this technology. This is because China Netcom only has 10M Spectrum resource on 3.5GHz spectrum.

CCTV accquired 2nd IPTV License
5/9/2006, From The first financial daily, Spokeswoman of SARFT(The State Administration of Radio Film and Televison)，Hong Zhu confirmed with the press that CCTV had got the 2nd IPTV licence in CHina. This license was the same one with the first one issued to Shanghai Media Group.
According to other leader of SARFT, they still have no big plan on IPTV promotion in China. The 2 licenses issued only is a kind of experiment. They will keep the tight control on the IPTV developement in China.

China Telecom CN2 enter North America
HERNDON, Va. -- China Telecom USA today announced that its parent company, China Telecom, the largest fixed-line operator in China, is planning to launch the Next Generation Carrying Network CN2 in North America. CN2 is a new MPLS next generation IP platform for businesses, designed to support both voice and data services. The CN2 Network began rollout in China in mid-2005. CN2 has direct coverage across 194 cities in China with global PoPs planned for London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore, San Jose, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. CN2 is linked to ChinaNet's more than 35 million registered customers and will provide direct connections to all major global ISPs for direct traffic routing.
CN2 is a newly built, separate network designed to provide superior reliability and performance to support mission-critical and high-priority business applications. CN2 provides the following cost effective services:
High-performing global Virtual Private Networking Next generation networking (NGN) -- converged communications (voice, data and video services) Enable Future 3G mobile application communications across CN2 network backbone Centralized network management -- end-to-end real time network monitoring and customer network management Enhanced network performance in terms of latency, packet loss and availability Network-to-Network interface (NNI) to provide truly global MPLS VPN connectivity across other global networks. This new network, which is based upon MPLS technology, runs separate to the existing ChinaNet Network. CN2 has five levels of Quality of Service (QoS) management, VPN service management, traffic and performance analysis, and customer information distribution. "Both IP and MPLS can be used to create corporate VPNs. However, MPLS VPN is more dynamic, combining the intelligence of private IP routing with the added performance of label switching to move packets between any location in the network," commented Donald Tan, President of China Telecom USA. He continued, "CN2 also provides a greater degree of security for voice and other types of business traffic since the MPLS routing table is separate from the public Internet. Multinational companies that use CN2 will experience network performance enhancements, including network reliability, flexibility, simplicity and scalability, which are unmatched by the traditional Internet."