China Unicom to accelerate urban Internet services

Beijing (CNS) -- China Unicom will launch its nationwide Internet acceleration project within the year, and in three years raise the service standard to a bandwidth speed of 10M or 20M, even 100M in some regions or for some users, announced the state telecom giant on Tuesday.

China Unicom claims it will adopt the "Fiber To The Home" (FTTH) method or "Fiber To The Building" (FTTB) method, in Beijing, Tianjin and some other pilot cities first.

The acceleration plan is part of the national strategy to upgrade all copper cables with an optical fiber network, backed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and six other ministerial departments.

So far, Guangzhou and Shanghai have already increased the Internet speed for the urban core free of charge. Beijing's upgrade is still in progress.