Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

Qian Mao, director of the Chinese Fiber Optical Communication Consortium recently revealed some new numbers of the high speed Internet usages in China. According to Mr. Mao, according to the data collected till end of June 2005, there are 103 million Internet users. Among them, there are 53 million high speed Internet users. The rest 50 million are using dial up Internet access. There are over 67% of the high speed Internet users use ADSL technology, which is approximately 33 million accounts. However, many users are not satisfied at the speed of the ADSL services. According to Mr. Mao's number, 5% of the high speed Internet users are not satisfied with the surfing speed, 17% of them are less favor and 40% feels acceptable but not great. My expectation is that the Chinese ISPs will boost the speed dramatically within the next 2 years to accommodate the growing VOIP industry and media deliver services. China has the largest high speed Internet service market in the world, but the government is still very much regulating who can provide these services. The room to grow in this industry is much bigger than other Asian countries such as Korea or Singarpore.