Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a document naming <the Notification Letter on Concentrate to Examine and Verify Violating Clues and Investigate to Raid Action towards Illegal Enterprises> (hereinafter as the Letter), and issued a notice of criticism on those enterprises' illegal construction of transmission network and other behaviors, and required them to make rectification. Among them, violation problems were existing in some fields for 21vianet broadband data center.
It is understood that the Letter has been issued to: communication regulatory authorities of local municipalities and provinces including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, China Telecommunications Corporation (aka China Telecom), China Mobile Communications Corporation (aka China Mobile) China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (aka China Unicom), China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (Aka CACIT).
In the Letter, MIIT said that the violating enterprises were mainly divided into three categories: self-built transmission networks, cross-border operations, and bandwidth sublet at layers. There are 47 violating enterprises in total, among them, CERNET and 21vianet are the only 2 companies violating in all 3 categories.
It's noteworthy that this is not the first time 21vianet occurred violation. As early as 2014, a related research survey found that 21vianet excessively exaggerated its financial performance and released false information and misleading statements. 21vianet exaggerated the number of cabinets and utilization of its IDC network; claimed 72 data centres under operations, while 31 have already terminated partnership indeed; illegal operations existing within its network service management too .
In addition, other companies including ChinaCache, BIH, Wasu were also among enterprises investigated with raid action by MIIT due to their violations of self-built transmission network, cross-border operation and bandwidth sublet, etc.
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