This is the year when the 5G telecom technology is getting mainstream. While countries like South Korea and the USA have already started 5G operations, it’s now the turn of China as it has now started issuing 5G licenses.
Earlier, it was reported that the commercial 5G license will be issued somewhere around October but since China has now started issuing licenses from today, the commencement of 5G rollout is earlier than expected.
This means that development in the country is progressing faster than expected. An insider of this development said, “China is now issuing 5G licenses, indicating that China’s 5G industry is ready. China has the ability to let the world see what is the world’s leading 5G network!”
Last month, Michael Gao Wenhao, Deputy General Manager of ZTE‘s 5G industrial product line, appeared at the Hong Kong 5G Forum of the Hong Kong Productivity Council headquarters and said that China plans to start commercialization of 5G technology nationwide from October 1st.
As per the reports, the base stations for the 5G rollout in Mainland China are expected to be provided by three companies — Huawei, ZTE, and Ericsson. With this, China will become one of the first countries to offer commercialized 5G.
By 1st October, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom — the three major telecom operators in China, will deploy 30,000 to 50,000 base stations in around 40 cities in China for the 5G services. The 5G deployment in 40 cities is a big task and compared to the USA and South Korea, China will have wider 5G coverage.
In April, China’s first 5G network went live in the Qianhai-Shekou Free Trade Zone in country’s southern tech hub Shenzhen. China’s state telecom carrier China Unicom built 111 5G base stations by joining hands with FTZ (Free Trade Zone) in Shenzhen.
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China Unicom has been testing 5G network in Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Fuzhou, Zhenzhou and Shenyang. On the other hand, China Mobile is aiming to bring 5G network in multiple cities and is also planning to build around 10,000 5G base stations by the year 2020.
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