China's IDC circle reported on August 21 that on August 20, a source of operators who did not want to be named disclosed to the reporter of China Business News that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would organize three major operators to hold a national teleconference on August 21, including the headquarters of the three major operators and key provincial management personnel.
"The time of the meeting is set at 9:00 tomorrow morning." The above person told reporters that he had not received the agenda of the meeting for the time being, but this meeting may be related to the collective change of leadership of operators.
According to media reports, the top leaders of the three major operators will make adjustments in the near future. Shang Bing, the vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will take over as the chairman of China Mobile. Xi Guohua, the current chairman of China Mobile, will retire. At the same time, Wang Xiaochu, the chairman of China Telecom, and Chang Xiaobing, the chairman of China Unicom will change their positions. The report also pointed out that official documents related to personnel changes have entered the issuance process.
Previously, some sources told the reporter of China Business News that Shang Bing would take over Xi Guohua's position, while the whereabouts of Wang Xiaochu and Chang Xiaobing were to be determined.
At the same time, the above people also said to reporters that the three major operators will announce restructuring plans at the end of this year at the earliest, and may carry out restructuring in two years at the latest. Specifically, according to the news from the think tank experts of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a restructuring plan is to split China Unicom's mobile business and fixed network business, and merge them into China Telecom and China Mobile respectively, so as to form two operators with equal strength in mobile and fixed network business.
The official personage of the operator has denied the restructuring news in different forms for many times. Recently, Wang Xiaochu also said that he has not received the request for merger with China Unicom.
The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been transferred to the head of the operator, which is a precedent. It is reported that Xi Guohua once served as the deputy minister of the former Ministry of Information Industry (the predecessor of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), and then transferred to China Netcom, and then returned to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. After Wang Jianzhou, the former chairman of China Mobile, retired in 2012, Xi Guohua was transferred to the chairman of China Mobile.
There are differences in the industry on whether it is necessary to restructure operators. An expert pointed out in an interview that the three major operators missed the best opportunity for restructuring. Some people pointed out to the reporter that during the 3G period, operators were merged and reorganized into China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom corresponding to the three 3G licenses of TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 and WCDMA, while during the 4G period, there were two licenses of TD-LTE and LTE FDD. At the same time, China Telecom and China Unicom, which had obtained the LTE FDD license, had the basis for restructuring.
