85% townships in Tibet covered by broadband network in 2011

10:05, June 23, 2009  

About 85 percent of townships and 60 percent of administrative villages in the Tibet Autonomous Region will be brought under broadband information network by 2011, said Wang Xiaochu, general manager of China Telecom (CT), the national major telecommunication operator.

In the next five years, China Telecom's fixed assets investment in the region will reach at least 2.5 billion yuan in total, with the figure in 2009 surpassing 700 million yuan.

Also, General Manager of CT's Tibet Office Li Xiaohua indicated that the office would spare no efforts to expand its quality network service, covering larger rural areas and making it available to more farmers and herdsmen.

Recently, the office has set up a department specializing in giving emergency communications service to the region.

The regional government and CT signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Lhasa, aiming to boost the info-development, improve info-based infrastructure, promote the application of info-tech and provide info-services to the agriculture, rural areas and farmers.

Qing Qi, director of the Tibet's Communication Administration, said rapid growth of info-highway has accelerated the regional social and economic undertakings.

Source: Xinhuanet

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