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Core Tip:More than 80 percent of villages in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region haveaccess to the Internet, according to the latest statistics.

More than 80 percent of villages in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region haveaccess to the Internetaccording to the latest statistics.

By the end of December 2015, 4,208 villages had broadbandaccounting for 80 percent of thetotalup from 19.6 percent five years agosaid Chochihead of the regional telecommunicationsdepartment.

The length of optical cable has doubled in five years to reach 114,000 kilometersabout 1.87million householdsor 59 percent of the totalare now able to use the Internethe said.

The plateau region is known as "the roof of the worlddue to its average altitude of over 4,000metersand building telecommunications infrastructure is difficult and costly.

Telecom operators lowered Internet costs in Tibet in 2015, boosting e-commerce.

The remote Ngari Prefecture is one of the most sparsely populated places in the worldPeople inthe prefecture's Tsochen County started doing e-commerce in 2014.

"By the end of 2015, revenue from e-commerce topped 4.1 million yuan (about $629,800)," saidPhubu Ceringhead of the commerce bureau of TsochenThe county's population was about13,200.

"Nine people in the county registered on Alibaba's trading platformTaobaoto sell Tibetanincensebeef and cashmere products," Phubu Cering added.

According to Chochithe region will expand its 4G network in 2016.

 

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