China details satellite network buildout in new telecom five-year plan China’s telecommunications regulator has issued a roadmap to the end of the decade, building on a national five-year plan laid out in March.
A Long March 3B carrying the ChinaSat-9C satellite lifts off from Xichang spaceport, June 20, 2025. Credit: CASC
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — China’s telecommunications regulator has issued a roadmap to the end of the decade, building on a national five-year plan laid out in March.
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