What does the operator mean?

An operator refers to a provider that provides network services.

Communication equipment manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, Nokia and Ericsson are called manufacturers, while China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Radio and Television are called operators.

Because the state is very strict in telecommunications management, only companies with operating licenses issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology can set up networks; From the perspective of communication industry, equipment manufacturers and operators are interdependent, but operators generally have more advantages, just as China Mobile stipulates that some mobile phones produced by Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers should be branded with GSM.

establish and strengthen partnerships

The operators in China include nine for-profit and non-profit Internet network operators such as China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Jinqiao Network and Education Network, as well as hundreds of inter-provincial ISPs (Internet access service providers). There is a big gap between network operators in terms of network scale, number of users and online resources.

China Telecom and China Netcom are dominant in 2 1 provinces and cities in the south and 21provinces and cities in the north respectively. In terms of Internet access, Gong, an expert from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Information Industry, believes that the key to Internet access is interoperability rather than interconnection. Because the interoperability that Internet users can experience is the interoperability speed between the Internet.

From this point of view, the interconnection between the Internet is not only a simple horizontal interconnection of similar networks, but also a cross-network, cross-region, cross-business and cross-border interconnection problem, including a three-dimensional interconnection problem, so it has the characteristics of diversification, multi-level and complexity.