Thursday, February 14, 2008

What will happen in this March?

2/14/2008, Next month, new term Nation People’s Congress (NPC) will be held in Beijing. One of the most important thing of this conference will be the reform of government organization. For me, I care about if the MII will merge with Sarft(The state administration of radio, film and television), if big 5 carriers reorganized again.
For the first thing, it is only a guess. Convergence has been the trend around the world. China should not lag behind this trend. Also China government is considering merging many different departments into one more functional department. It was said the new merged department would be more effective.
For the second thing, some financial institutions including UBS, Morgan Stanley have predicted it could be happened in this March. The most possible plan is that Unicom is divided, both China Telecom and China Netcom will have part of Unicom, China Mobile will acquire China Tietong, so all carriers will be all-service carriers.
2008 is the 30 years anniversary of the “Reform and open to the outside in China”. Many people guess there will be some big reform activity. Could it really happen? Let us wait.
One good thing maybe is today, China government finally announced they would adjust the roaming charge of mobile service after a criticized public hearing. Compared to the old standard, mobile customer will have at most 71% reduction on roaming charge in the future.

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