The day after Zhao Lixia agreed to get broadband, the father and son excitedly ran to the service hall.
Broadband in 2002 wasn't dominated by the telecom giants like today; it was almost monopolized by Telecom.
However, there was Great Wall Broadband, which many people in later generations might not have heard of.
Great Wall Broadband was once the largest private broadband developer in the country, boasting over ten million online users at its peak.
Then it fell into decline in later years, eventually sold for a mere million.
Speaking of contributions, Great Wall did make significant efforts to lower the hefty initial ADSL installation fees for internet users.
When cable broadband was first introduced, the initial installation fees were quite shocking. In 2000, they were over two thousand, but in early 2001, Telecom generally reduced them to over a thousand, and they further dropped to eight or nine hundred by the year's end.
