Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Guangdong Telecom invests more on IPTV

12/26/2007, According to local media, Guangdong Telecom will invest 5billion RMB more on IPTV network. The result of bidding will be opened by the end of this month. 2 years ago, Guangdong Telecom made the first purchase on IPTV equipments. Huawei won the order for Guangzhou and Shenzhen, 60K subscribers. ZTE won the order for Dongguan and Foshan, total 24K subscribers. UTStarcom won the order for Zhuhai, SHantou and ZHongshan, total 16K subscribers. From this upgrade, Guangdong telecom hope to generate more revenue from IPTV service.

In China, IPTV deployment still face the block of policy. Only a few provinces have IPTV services. Because of cooperation with local broadcaster, Shanghai Telecom now has the largest IPTV subscribers. According to the recent statistics, it now already has 220K subscribers. The total broadband subscribers in Shanghai is 3million. In Shanghai, 85% of residents can have 2M access rate from Shanghai Telecom.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

IPtv is definitely the way of the future