The Yanbian Broadband Access Market Situation And Development Trend,

Broadband network, as a co-product of new hi-tech industry and newly emerging telecom business, is no doubt a main topic in the new millennium. It can connect multimedia, which is impossible in traditional network access, and transmit huge data package in seconds. No matter for government or Internet service providers (ISPs), broadband network is believed to have huge strategic value and accordingly regarded as a strategic development goal. Some countries even list it in their development strategies in 21st century, while ISPs take it as a main target in their future development.By the end of 2004, there were 150 million broadband users globally, which indicates that the market begins to turn mature. The user number is now increasing in a similar rate with gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Broadband market in China also keeps growing rapidly. The country has 94 million netizens, the second largest one in the world. About 45.53 percent of them are broadband users. Such a huge scale sustains the healthy development of the sector. Its industrial chain is further extending and now covers telecom, computer, media, entertainment, education, medical treatment and government sectors.Yanbian's broadband market also experiences fast development under the flourishing situation in the whole country. First debuting in 2001, local broadband industry entered a rapid development phase in 2003 and 2004, with fast growing broadband number. By the end of 2004, the number reaches 81,000, up 138 percent over the previous year. China Netcom Yanbian Branch is now leading local market with its ADSL product, while local branches of China Telecom and China Railcom also join the market competition.As for broadband access market in Yanbian Prefecture, there are lots of in-depth problems amid its rapid development. Compared with international situation and even that of these developed regions in China, Yanbian's broadband market is weaker in such aspects like broadband content application and industrial chain. Thus, such bottlenecks and restrictive factors should be removed in order for persistent and rapid development of the sector.Based on the development practice of international standards and that of these developed regions in China, this paper analyses the situation and existing problems in Yanbian's broadband access market, brings forward countermeasures and suggestions, and look to the impact which broadband exerts on local economy.