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Research and Markets Adds Report: China - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts
[September 06, 2013]

Research and Markets Adds Report: China - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts


Sep 06, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "China - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts" report to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include: Accelerated Investment In Fttx As 3G Impacts Traffic Growth The report covers trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, internet, broadband, digital TV and IPTV developments.



Subjects covered include: - Market and industry analyses, trends and developments; - Facts, figures and statistics; - Industry and regulatory issues; - Infrastructure; - Major players, revenues, net profit, EBITDA, subscribers, ARPU; - Internet, VoIP, IPTV; - Mobile voice and data markets; - Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, mobile); - Smart cities; - Cloud computing; - Smart grids; - Forecasts for internet users, fixed-line, mobile, 3G, broadband subscribers to 2018.

For those needing high level strategic analysis and objective analysis on China, this report is essential reading and gives further information on: - Aims by the government to broadcast all TV programs in digital format by 2010 and complete cable TV digitisation by 2015.


- State Grid Corp.'s goal of building out a Smart Grid by 2020 as part of the country's US$100 billion investments in Smart Grids.

- China's Twelfth 5 year plan targeting seven priority industries with the aim of increasing their GDP contributions from 2 percent of GDP to 8 percent by 2016 and supported by a budget allocation of RMB 10 trillion (US$1.52 trillion) over the five year period.

- A noticeable shift to instant messaging, blogging and microblogging and increased use of the internet for currency transactions.

Market Highlights - China had close to 1,500 million phone users by mid-2013, including mobile phones, fixed-line phones and PHS handsets.

- Mobile subscribers comprised over 80 percent of the total.Non-voice revenue comprised over 50 percent of total industry revenue and value added services comprised over 25 percent of total industry revenue.Broadband investments increased particularly with FttX infrastructure, driven by government initiatives.

- IPTV growth was impacted by the government announcement of three-network integration trials of the country's telecom, broadcast television and internet networks, and showed signs of acceleration into 2013.

- Large scale LTE trials continued even though 3G deployments still only account for 25 percent of all mobile subscriptions after four years.

- The government appears committed to only approve 4G commercial operations in 2014.

Report information: researchandmarkets.com/research/65c2t9/china_telecoms ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected]))

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