Business news for Mon, 24 Dec 2007 & with words providers+service. 3 news.

THE number of Chinese broadband users has hit 122 million, the highest in the world, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, citing an official from the information industry authority. Sixty percent of the netizens surfed on the Internet via broadband, said Jiang Yaoping, vice minister of the ministry of information industry, at a work conference of China Telecommunications Corporation on Saturday. Last year, more than 30 percent of China Telecom's income came from non-phone services, rising from 5.5 percent in 2002, the report said. One-third of the new broadband users are farmers, where the demand for the service is high, China Telecom officials said. The increased user number boosted the non-voice income of fixed-phone carriers, accelerating the transformation of traditional phone carriers into comprehensive information service providers, the report said.

Airlines and service providers ponder what passengers can use and how to keep them from annoying their neighbors.

Airlines, providers learned lessons from Boeing's experience Airlines and service providers seeking to deliver high-speed Internet services to passengers say they have learned from Boeing Co.'s 2006 decision to pull the plug on its ambitions to outfit its planes with a similar service.