MAP > Internet Providers in China

China Market, although still large, has a low penetration rate and which is an excellent indicator for future growth. This report gets to cover the trends as well as development in the telecommunications, internet, mobile, digital TV, broadband as well as converging media and this is including the IPTV developments. As Chinese market gets to approach the saturation, we have seen a big shift of emphasis in China’s policy when it comes to the broadband from the infrastructure build up and the service provision to the application creation and the user demand stimulation.

The China’s fixed-line market has been on a sharp decline due to mobile voice substitution. The fixed-line penetration has gone on and dropped largely over the past 5 years. The trend has been predicted to progress over the next 5 years to the year 2023 being driven by growing adoption of the mobile broadband. In early 2018, Chinese government has updated the list of the sensitive sectors for the outbound investment, getting to remove the telecoms operation from the list. China has been projected to lead the spending on the Internet of Things tech in Asia Pacific, driven by the agriculture as well as the health sectors. China’s government has been aiming for the universal as well as affordable broadband coverage through the investments as well as the competition as specified in the policies.

Fixed broadband penetration mainly in China has continued to grow very strongly over the past 5 years. The Fiber broadband progresses to be among the fastest developing fixed broadband segment as the DSL as well as cable modem access continue to decline as the customers continue to migrate away from such platforms in favor of the fiber broadband, There has been a very strong growth in the fiber connections from the year 2012 to the year 2017.

Within China, among the best and largest economic drivers of the development of the economy is the increasing urbanization rate as the rural residents get to move to the cities in search of the economic opportunities. The urban residents get to earn three times in income of the rural residents in this country. The moderate growth has been predicted over next 5 years in fixed broadband segment for 2018 to the year 2023. Much of initial growth in the China’s digital economy got to be underpinned by online demand for the information.