[advertise]广告[/advertise] 11/5/2009, Mainland China has the largest brandband subscriber group with more than 1 billion broadband users. In the first 6 months of this year, new broadband customers reach 10 million. But compared to Korea, Japan and China HK, mainland China still is in low level development on broadband. In a private meeting of China Telecom group, Mr. Liu, Ping, president of Shandong Telecom, pointed out several important shortcomings of broadband development in mainland China. 1) Broadband Peneration is only 21% in mainland China. This lists No. 43 around the world, for behind Korea and Singapore. 2)Big Gap between East coast area and Western inside area. Hugh Gap between City and rural areas. 3)Average broadband data rate is less than 4Mbps, but in Japan it is more than 90Mbps, in many other countries, it is more than 17.4Mbs. 4)Chinese government plays a poor role on broadband development. This is in contrast with European Union, Korea, Japan. 5) Each service provider's broadband Access resources are still not open to each other.