Government officials announced that China’s 5G mobile phone users had reached 805 million by the end of last year.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China had a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at the national level by the end of 2023.
Vice Minister Xin Guobin said that by the end of last year, the country had more than 10,000 industrial internet projects using 5G, and 5G trials had begun in key sectors such as cultural tourism, medicine, and education. He said that this contributed to the recovery and expansion of consumption. At the MIIT press conference.
It added that the number of 5G mobile phone users in the country reached 805 million by the end of last year.
According to estimates by a Chinese research institute, 5G technology is expected to generate economic output of 1.86 trillion yuan ($261.36 billion) in 2023, compared to the figure recorded in 2022. Arata said that the increase will be 29%.
A local newspaper reported that the penetration rate of 5G technology in China will reach 90% by the end of 2023. Global Times The report cited an executive at local telecommunications company China Mobile.
Bian Yannan, deputy director of China Mobile’s planning and construction department, said that this penetration rate will be achieved by deploying 360,000 5G base stations by 2023.
China Mobile has already deployed a total of 1.7 million 5G base stations across Asia, and the company claims that its 5G penetration rate is over 85%.
According to Wang Zhiqin, head of China’s 6G promotion team and vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology, China aims to start commercializing 6G technology by 2030, and by around 2025. It is expected that the standard setting will be achieved.
Wang recently pointed out that China started 6G technology experiments last year and is proceeding with research on 6G system architecture and technology solutions by 2023.
In June 2023, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that the Chinese government had allocated spectrum in the 6GHz frequency band for 5G and 6G services. The ministry said that considering the benefits of coverage and capacity, the 6 GHz spectrum is the only high-quality resource with wide bandwidth in the mid-band, making the 6 GHz range particularly suitable for the deployment of 5G systems or 6G. future system.
The ministry noted that the current 6GHz band allocation “will help stabilize expectations for the 5G/6G industry.”
