Shanghai says yes on WiMAX

9/17/2007, Jiading, a satalite city of Shanghai, today confirmed they will use WiMAX and WiFi mesh technoology to build a metro wireless monitoring system. They will use 802.16d technology to provide video transmission bandwidth from 512Kbps to 3Mbps. In mainland China, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenzhen also have similiar Wireless city plan like Jiading.

China Telecom selects EPON

9/19/2007, In August, China Telecom finished the first phase 40K line EPON equipment purchasing from ZTE of Shenzhen, Fiberhome and Changguang of Wuhan, Greenwell and Ocean Broadband of Beijing. After nearly 2 years test, China Telecom thinks that EPON technology is mature enough, althgh they will continue follow the development of GPON technology. China Telecom also published their EPON technology request last month.
According to the EPON equipments provider selected by China telecom, in year 2008, China Telecom maybe have 200k line request on EPON equipments.