1 中国是世界上潜力最大的电信市场中国是一个发展中国家,电信服务还比较落后,但随着经济增长,近十几年来电信业在高速发展。整个20世纪90年代中国电信业处于起飞阶段,几项主要指标的年均增长率都在40%以上。进入本世纪以来,由于总量基数加大,增长率随之下降,但绝对增长量仍在 1 China is the World’s Most Prominent Telecom Market As a developing country, telecommunications services are still relatively backward. However, with the economic growth, the telecommunication industry has been developing rapidly in the recent decade. Throughout the 1990s, China’s telecom industry was in its take-off stage. The average annual growth rates of several key indicators were above 40%. Since the beginning of this century, due to the increase of the total base amount, the growth rate has dropped, but the absolute growth rate is still