On December 13, 2021, network maintenance staff at China Mobile’s local subsidiary in Tongling, Anhui Province, eastern China, test the antenna of a 5G base station. As of early December, Tongling subsidiary has built more than 650 5G stations, enabling complete coverage of Tongling’s rural areas. hotspot. (Photo/Chugoku Shimbun)
Officials from China Mobile, China’s largest carrier, said on Tuesday that an additional 360,000 base stations will be installed this year, and 5G coverage in China will reach more than 90%, which means China will be one of the fastest growing countries in the world’s 5G rollout. He said this shows that he is in a leading position.
Bian Yannan, deputy director of Planning and Construction Department under China Mobile, spoke at a forum held in Beijing and revealed the progress of 5G innovation. Bian said a significant number of new 5G products will be commercialized this year.
Currently, the number of China Mobile’s 5G base stations in China has reached more than 1.7 million, and after four years of development, the penetration rate has exceeded 85 percent, the carrier said.
The number of China Mobile’s 5G end users has reached 480 million. According to China Mobile, 5G network revenue last year exceeded 5 billion yuan.
“From a 5G perspective, we are leading the world in scale,” said Li Huidi, deputy general manager of China Mobile.
China has vowed to accelerate the construction of virtual private networks in the 5G industry and enrich domestic 5G application scenarios. The total number of 5G base stations in China soared to 2.73 million by the end of April, in China’s efforts to roll out the world’s largest and most advanced 5G mobile phone infrastructure, according to official data. In addition to China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom are also major carriers offering his 5G services.
China will continuously optimize its infrastructure layout to improve the coverage of high-quality networks such as 5G and gigabit optical networks and build 5G-ready factories, Industry and Information Technology Minister Jin Zhuanglong said at the opening of the 31st PT. Said on the forum. According to Xinhua News Agency, the China Expo was held in Beijing on June 4th.
Jin said that China is paying attention to the next generation Internet and other frontier fields, and is comprehensively advancing the research and development of 6th generation (6G) communication and networking technology.
According to Jin, while the cultivation of emerging fields will be accelerated, efforts will be made to enhance the advantages of the entire domestic industrial chain in the cellular and optical communications fields.
