21世纪的头十年内，中国电信业将继续保持高速增长态势，其主要增长领域和发展趋势是：★公用电话网还会有很大的发展，其网络规模将扩大一倍以上，用户数达到2至3亿户； In the first decade of the 21st century, China’s telecom industry will continue to maintain its rapid growth. Its major growth areas and trends are as follows: ★ There will also be a great development in the public telephone network. Its network scale will more than double and its number of subscribers will reach 2 to 300 million households;