Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Expensive or not? Free or not?

5/16/2007, according to a recent World bank report, the internet service charge of each user in mainland China is nearly 10 times the charge of each user in developed countries under comparing conditions. The report induced a big discussion. Even MII officer joined the discussion, they criticised the report ungrounded. Mr. Zeng,jianqiu, a Cambridge PHD, now professor of BUPT, also said in an interview that only comparement based on absolute value is significative. An article in a Beijing newspaper warned their readers be careful of behind-the-screen overseas company.

Another similar discussion related with whether India would provide free internet service. There is a report that our neighbour will do such thing after year 2009. Seems nobody in China believe India can do this, Professon Zeng even said India was bragging.

On both of these 2 problems, seems the government and the so-called elites all have the totally different opinion with the usual internet users in mainland China. Why? Who is wrong?

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