February 23,2010, Although SARFT (state administration of radio, film and television) and MIIT（Ministry of Information Industry Technology）have agreed to push ahead triple play service jointly in mainland China, IPTV service for telecom service providers still face “red light” in many areas. Just now, SARFT stopped the IPTV service run by Guangxi Telecom in 14 cities of Guangxi Province, a province in southern China close to Vietnam.
On February 9, SARFT ordered that Shanghai Television Station to stop provide IPTV signal source to Guangxi and Xinjiang Telecom, also they asked Guangxi Telecom must stopped their IPTV service and said the service is against current law. SARFT forwarded their request to the Guangxi local government. 3 days later, all IPTV services run by Guangxi Telecom in 14 cities were stopped, just before this Chinese new year.
It is not the first time to happen this kind of thing. Since IPTV services were introduced by telecom service providers in mainland China in about year 2005, SARFT basically does not want to cooperate. Only in a few cities like Shanghai, Haerbin, Hangzhou, under control of the join-venture company by local Cable TV service provider and telecom service provider, IPTV is officially provided to the public.
Not only SARFT does not want to cooperate with telecom service providers, telecom service providers also do not want Cable TV service providers have telecom services like VoIP, internet service. In recent history, conflicts like cutting cable of the other side, causing damage to equipment of the other side happened many times.
Video service is still the ace of cable TV service providers today in mainland China. Compared to big scale telecom service providers, video service is the only advantage for cable TV service providers. That is the reason why they are so nerves that some telecom service providers begin to provide video service.
It is a good thing that cable TV service providers are still blessed by government today. According to the most recent triple play policy, SARFT will play a major role in the first 2 years. SARFT still has the top responsibility to check all video services around mainland China. A new national cable TV service provider is under construction. There are still 2 years time left for them.
Hengtong builds southern manufacturing base in Dongguan
February 23, 2010, Dongguan, one of the largest optical fiber and cable manufacture in mainland China, Hengtong group (600487 Shanghai Stock market) just announced they will invest 250million RMB in Songshan lake industry zone of Dongguan city, Guangdong province to build their southern manufacturing base. In the future, Hengtong will mainly develop and manufacture new special fiber, cable, copper cable in this base. The predicated revenue will reach 400 million RMB each year.
Mr. Qian,jianlin, general manager of Hengtong pointed out that they would make Songshan lake base as their southern headquater. Songshan lake base will help Hengtong develop southern market, even southeast Asia market quickly.
With 1.5billion RMB market value, Hengtong now has nearly 18% market share in China's fiber and cable market. Their new fiber preform product will also help them gain more market share in the coming years.
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