China Mobile will reportedly send two experimental satellites into low Earth orbit that will be used to test 5G and 6G architectures, especially with a view to integrating satellite and terrestrial networks to support both technologies. It is said that it was launched.
The LEO satellite was launched on Saturday and placed into orbit at an altitude of 500 km, state media reported. The satellite was jointly developed by China Mobile and the Microsatellite Innovation Academy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and “supports on-orbit software reconfiguration, flexible deployment of core network functions, and automatic management.”
The 6G satellite was launched in parallel with another LEO satellite equipped with a land-based 5G operating system developed by China Mobile and Chinese satellite company Ubinexus, state newspaper Global Times said.
The report said both satellites will be used to test ways to integrate satellite communications into terrestrial 5G and 6G cellular networks and provide coverage in remote areas.
Although 6G standardization is still at least six years away, the 3GPP Release 18 standard, scheduled to be frozen next month, will help integrate non-terrestrial networks (NTN) such as satellites and high-altitude platforms (HAPS) into terrestrial networks. Designed. 5G infrastructure.
Wang Zhiqin, vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology and head of China’s 6G promotion team, told state media in December that China plans to commercialize 6G technology by 2030, and within the next year. He claimed that the basic standards for the technology would be completed by the end of the year.
The first 6G services will launch in densely populated areas around the world in 2029, with 290 million 6G connections worldwide by 2030, according to a report released Tuesday by analyst firm Juniper Research. It is predicted that
