Shanghai unveils telecom ambitions
2/6/2003 15:00
Every household will have at least one fixed phone, and 77 out of
every hundred people will own a handset by 2005, according to a three-year
development plan unveiled by the city's telecommunication authority
recently.
The plan aims to make Shanghai a telecommunications leader in
the Asia-Pacific region, equaling or exceeding the services offered in urban
centers of developed countries.
In three years, fixed phone users in the
city will reach 8.3 million, with every household having a fixed-line phone.
Handset users will reach 12.8 million, or 77 percent of the city's population.
40 percent of the population, about 6.5 million people, will be frequent
Internet users, half with broadband access.
Broadband optic fibers will
be connected to each residential community and downtown office building.
Eight short-message service centers will be established in the same
period.
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