in occasion of the three telecom operators free of charge WiFi war was in full swing, “ sold knives ” WiFi equipment manufacturers are rushing in and the tender scene, large and small.
a rough statistics, since last October, China Unicom started 200,000 WLAN device purchase; 380,000 units in China Mobile WLAN equipment bidding; in March this year China Telecom began a new round of 802.11n equipment. This WiFi equipment markets become Telecom after 3G, IPTV and other hotspots of another struggle, ZTE, Huawei, Datang Telecom, Cisco, and other well-known communications equipment manufacturers in China and abroad, as well as small and medium sized equipment manufacturers Ternary, ruijie, jingxin communications, three dimensional star network communications are joined to this increasingly forming a new cake in the competition.
ping an securities research report released in March this year pointed out that the WiFi construction is expected to drive the 25 billion to 30 billion worth of new markets for telecommunications equipment. In 2011, China Telecom operators in General 15%-cent growth expected, WiFi investment is one of structural surprises. First year of
WiFi-scale investment
“2011 year will become the three telecom operators WiFi network in first year of racing. &Amp;rdquo; ping an securities analyst Li Zhongzhi told reporters that, after the past two years, a relatively small scale deployments, operators have accumulated in the equipment selection, network deployment, billing and marketing, aspect of experience WiFi ripe for large-scale deployment.
in addition to around with wireless city plans by the Government, operators vigorously deploy WiFi, the priority is also streaming 3G network pressure. With the rapid development of 3G business intelligent terminals and operators, mobile data traffic showing explosive growth, bringing unprecedented pressure to 3G network. In the case of gradually become the intelligent mobile standard WiFi module, WiFi will be 3G data distribution, protection of important and necessary means of customer experience.
before the operators provide the public with free WiFi service, network bidding and construction there is no doubt that they want to go a step further. Especially in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Beijing and other major cities after successful testing, telecom operators from last year for a nationwide focus on regional layout, since September last year, the major operators started a new round of equipment purchase.
prior to this region in the South have little layout of Unicom took the lead in the first time, tender last October for its 200,000 units had been completed. In addition to Unicom, invest in WiFi areas most positive or China Mobile. On March 16 this year, while China Mobile publishing 2010 annual report, also announced the investment plans in the coming years, of which capital expenditure over a three-year budget of $ 132.4 billion, $ 130.4 billion and $, down to the WLAN network, in accordance with the previously published news in China Mobile, within the next 3 years, will be built 1 million WiFi hotspots in the country.
although the relatively conservative in Telecom investments in WiFi, 2010 in addition to 50,000 devices after the tender and not make too much centralized procurement, but beginning in March of this year is about to start a new round of China Telecom's WLAN deployment, this mainly uses the 802.11n device for deployment, apparently before Telecom want to substitute the more advanced technology to 802.11b/g technology.
802.11n technology of WLAN can be providing 54Mbps transfer rate from the current 802.11A and, up to 300Mbps, and even up to 600Mbps. In terms of coverage, 802.11n can extend to several square kilometers, the WLAN mobility greatly improve.
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