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[digitimes] The China government plans to invest more than 150 billion yuan (US$22.0 billion) in 2010-2011 to establish fiber-optic networks around the country, with aims to increase the number of FTTx subscribers by over 50 million to more than 80 million by the end of next year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The average FTTx download speed is expected to be 8Mbps and 2Mbps for home subscribers in cities and rural areas respectively as well as 100Mbps for business users, MIIT said.

China aims at over 80 million FTTx users in 2011, says MIIT