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May 26, 1998 (BEIJING) -- China is expected to have 100 million
cable TV customers by the year 2000.
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Government departments estimate that 70 million households have
cable TV in China, and the number is growing 10 percent annually.
Cable TV customers accounted for 17 percent of the households in
the country.
At present, 9 percent of Chinese households have telephones and
1.2 percent have computers.
The government has approved over 1,200 cable TV companies, which
have cable networks in over 70 percent of the cities and
counties.
The government is using foreign funds to put together a national
network.
The next step is to connect the national hub to provincial and
then to county hubs.
Fred Yang of Philips Broadband Networks China said that both
foreign and Chinese companies are focusing on tapping the
broadband communication capacity of China's network, which will
be used for entertainment and for telephone, data and electronic
business services.
Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Dalian already have interactive cable TV
networks that combine broadcast, telecommunications and Internet
functions.
(Xinhua News Agency)
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