August 12, 1998, June 21 (Tiger), China Unicom Official Telephone operators telephone business, telecommunications monopoly was broken. 12,,

1998 8 telephone business in Tianjin Branch of China Unicom Official Telephone operating. This means that a long time by the monopoly of China Telecom exclusive telephone market has since been broken, and the majority of the local subscriber will therefore enjoy never had the option.
China Unicom is approved by the State Council, electronic, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Power and Ministry of Railways to set up our second operating telecommunications basic business and value-added business of large enterprises. Since its inception in 1994, they first enter the mobile communications market, launched a competition with China Telecom. Due to historical reasons, China Telecom as long as the adjustment of the "cross-subsidization" of the balance sheet method, you can set Unicom inevitable loss of position, business telephone is one of the necessary precondition for fair competition between China Unicom and China Telecom. Unicom only built their own networks, in order to get a ticket to enter the telephone market.
after some hard efforts, the interoperability between the two sides all the technical issues have been resolved. Tianjin Posts and Telecommunications public communication main network with Unicom Tianjin local call total agreement was formally signed on August 13. The rules finalized Unicom Tianjin the the local call start �ź� operating, the two sides officially began competition in the telephone market. (����d��y����h�� $ �Ө�ry.c��m)
Unicom the Tianjin local call opened the greatest significance lies not in how many phones give people loaded preferential how much, it is critical to bring competition to the monopoly local telephone market, thus promoting the whole of Posts and Telecommunications industry development.