With the completion of its hierarchical SDH transmission self-healing network, digital PBX network, ATM frame relay broadband multitask network, digital data network (DDN), digital synchronized network and public multimedia infonet, Ningbo public telecommunications system can provide multiple connections, either wired or wireless, narrowband or broadband, optical fiber, coaxial, symmetrical, pair-twisted or category 5 wires, on the basis of which comprehensive services like fixed and mobile voice communication, intelligent service, data transferring, computer multimedia access and graphic transmission are available in all local telecommunications networks.

Now, the total capacity of telephone exchange surpasses 2.8 million and 2.2 million of which are occupied. The telephone penetration in urban area is 86 sets per hundred people, and telephone lines reach to 100% of the villages in rural areas. Via Ningbo public infonet, broadband ADSL and LAN, the local subscribers of internet access have exceeded In addition, data communication, intelligent service and integrated services are widely applied in Ningbo.