(Nikkei BP Group)
(No.1 High-Tech News Site in Japanese)
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October 26, 1998 (BEIJING) -- The biggest problem facing China's telecommunications
industry is how to raise the efficiency of the existing network to generate
higher returns on investment, according to Rau C. Chang, vice president
of Lucent Technologies (China) Co., Ltd.
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Chang said that as a major partner of the Chinese telecommunications
industry, Lucent has noticed the evolution of information technology
is proceeding faster than construction of telecommunications networks
in China.
Chang noted that the time interval between generations of new telecommunications
technology is becoming increasingly shorter, and that the integration
of voice, data and frame communications is the trend of the future for
telecommunications.
China has to improve the planning, construction, operation and maintenance
of existing networks in order to realize the highest possible return
for its huge investment in telecommunications, he said.
Chang suggested China should take into consideration the trend of technological
development in the world today as it builds its telecommunications networks.
For example, localities should give priority to data communications
while building local networks.
According to Chang, China's telecommunications market may see the fastest
growth in such sectors as intelligent exchanges, Internet service, transmission,
fiber optic cable networks and network management. This shows that China's
telecommunications network still has a large potential to be tapped.
China invests several hundred billion RMB in construction of telecommunications
infrastructure every year. China Telecom, one of the country's major
service providers, has spent US$11 billion introducing foreign technologies
and equipment over the past three years.
Lucent accounts for 40 percent of the optic transmission equipment market
in China, which has developed the largest fiber optic cable network
in the world. Lucent obtained six of the nine construction projects
for trunk optic cables put forward by China Telecom in international
bidding this year.
(Xinhua News Agency)
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