China News Service, Wuhan, September 17 (Reporter Liang Ting) As of the end of August this year, Hubei had newly built 11,000 5G macro stations, with a total of 42,000, ranking first in the country and first in the central region; Wuhan urban areas, city and county centers All urban areas have achieved 5G coverage.
The reporter learned the above news from the Hubei regional finals of the 4th "Bloom Cup" 5G Application Contest held here on the 17th.
The "Blooming Cup" competition organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is the highest-specification and most influential event in the domestic 5G application field.
The 4th "Blooming Cup" 5G Application Contest was launched in Beijing in May this year, focusing on promoting application replication, deepening cross-industry collaboration, and setting a benchmark for 5G industry applications.
The Hubei regional competition finals were hosted by the Hubei Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, Hubei Provincial Communications Administration, Wuhan Economic and Information Bureau, and Wuhan Hongshan District Government. 207 5G typical application projects were collected from the whole province, and 30 projects entered the finals.
According to Wang Zhiqin, vice president of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the world’s largest 5G network has been built, with more than one million 5G base stations, accounting for more than 70% of the world; there are more than 10,000 5G application innovation cases in the country, and the number and innovation are all in the world The first echelon.
Wuhan is one of the first five pilot cities for 5G scale trial networks in the country. At present, the typical application scenarios for fostering and promoting 5G have been implemented in industries such as new information consumption, smart factories, smart connected cars, smart campuses, smart medical care, and smart cultural tourism. application.
According to Cai Xiaoyong, the second-level inspector of the Hubei Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, Hubei implements the 5G 10,000-station project, guiding basic telecom operators to invest nearly 10 billion yuan; in addition, the province has given 600 million yuan to new 5G macro base stations for three consecutive years subsidy.
In terms of promoting scenario applications, build 5G fully connected factories, select 25 companies as key construction targets, organize operators and ICT service providers to enter factories and parks, and provide special guidance for the development needs of enterprise 5G applications.
The "dual gigabit" network represented by 5G and gigabit optical network is an important component and bearer base of the new infrastructure.
According to data from the Hubei Provincial Communications Administration, as of the end of August, Hubei has more than 20 million 5G package users, ranking first in the country; it is expected that by the end of 2021, the number of households covered by the province’s gigabit optical network will reach 10 million, with gigabit and The number of broadband users above reached one million.
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