Asia'sInfo Ding says a bandwidth shortage high costs are the main impediments to Internet growth in China. Edward Tian is laying the fattest data pipes ever Edward Tian is laying the fattest data pipes ever James Ding started AsiaInfo with Edward Tian back in 1993. Since then, he's helped it become a leading Internet infrastructure and software provider to China's telecommunications industry. Right now if you ask what is the number one barrier to the growth of the Internet in China, I would say bandwidth and the cost of the infrastructure.
People can afford a PC fairly easily.
But intensive use of the Net is more expensive. For businesses, that is also true. For business, once you are on the Internet, you want to send out as much traffic as possible and as much data as possible. You want to maximize your usage of the Internet. But right now the cost is traffic-sensitive, so it's definitely going to slow down the business growth or business usage of the Internet.