Triple Play to Drive Investment of 688 Billion Yuan in Three Years, Surpassing 3G

News on May 6: The "2010 Global Broadband Communications and IoT High-Level Forum" was held in Beijing today. At the forum, Wu Hequan, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, stated that [Triple Play](

　　Wu Hequan said that Triple Play faces technical challenges. First, the digital and bidirectional transformation of the cable TV network must be comprehensively promoted. Among digital users, only 20 million are bidirectional; 60% of users still require digital conversion, and 87.5% of users need to be upgraded from unidirectional to bidirectional, which is a very heavy task. The broadcasting industry believes they hope to achieve this goal through NGB, and the NGB they currently favor requires investment of hundreds of billions of yuan.

　　At present, 14 provinces have begun to establish national cable TV network companies, but it will still take a considerable amount of time to form a nationwide cable TV company.

　　There are also institutional aspects. In promoting [Triple Play](