Meeting With a People's Republic of China Delegation

Today I had the pleasure to receive, together with Mr. Garcia Pereira (Director of Market Regulation), Mr. Mário de Freitas (Director of Special Projects) and Mr. Mário Florentino (Head of Mobile regulation) a Delegation from the People’s Republic of China, integrated by Mr. Shu Jianjun (Director of the Department of Planning – China Mobile), Mr. Wang Xicheng (Deputy General Manager of China Mobile),Mr. Du Guangda (Department of Planning of the Ministry of Information Industry), Ms Liu Shuping (Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Information Industry), Mr. Liu Yi (Department of Fixed Assets Investment of the National Development and Reform Commission), Ms Liu Li (Department of Development Planning of the National Development and Reform Commission), Ms. Chen Suang (Director of the Hi-tech Industries Development Division of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development & Reform), Mr. Li Bo (Deputy General Manager of Ericsson China) and Mr. Xing Laijun (Senior Sales Manager of Ericsson China) and Mr. Miguel Filipe (Ericsson Marketing & Business Development).

The Chinese Delegation was particularly interested in the regulatory framework of Universal Service (US) provision in Portugal (including US scope, net cost assessment and financing of net costs), in the development of the mobile wholesale and retail markets in Portugal and in Europe, in the competitive panorama in Portugal, in the authorisation and licensing regimes and in the conditions governing access to submarine cable landing stations. The deployment of NGN in China, which is occurring at a fast pace, was also briefly discussed.