600,000 5G base stations are completed and user migration becomes the next step
Author: Li Na
2020 is a critical year for my country's 5G network construction. On October 14th, a reporter from China Business News learned from the 2020 China International Information and Communications Exhibition that 600,000 5G base stations have been built across the country, and 5G users have exceeded 150 million.
On May 17 this year, China Mobile stated that the scale of base stations nationwide will exceed 300,000 by the end of the year, while China Telecom and China Unicom are actively promoting 5G joint construction and sharing. They plan to complete the construction of 250,000 base stations nationwide within this year, which means that my country has already advanced Complete the annual construction target of base stations.
Wen Ku, Director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated in the above-mentioned meeting that my country is in the lead-in period of 5G development in the next three years.
As a new type of infrastructure construction, 5G's impact on the economy cannot be ignored.
Tianfeng Securities pointed out in the research report that on the one hand, 5G, as a “new technology infrastructure”, can play a direct role in “stabilizing investment”; on the other hand, 5G will be closely integrated with vertical industries, spawning a large number of new 5G applications, and indirectly driving changes. Big demand for information consumption.
"Take 5GtoB application as an example. From 2020 to 2025, 5G investment will reach 1.2 trillion yuan, which will drive a total economic output of 10.6 trillion yuan." Zhang Wenlin, president of Huawei's strategy department, said at the conference sub-forum, expecting 2025 The scale of China's digital economy will reach 60 trillion yuan, with GDP accounting for more than 50%.
Zhang Wenlin said that the digital economy has become a core kinetic energy of the entire world economy and will reach a growth rate of 25% in the next five years.
In addition, the long-term rate of return of digital technology is 6.7 times that of non-digital technology. "We feel that in the new digital era, only further open source can promote the entry of the whole society and solve the core problems of digital development."
5G is an important part of the digital economy, but compared with countries where 5G has been deployed earlier, such as South Korea and Switzerland, companies believe that if China’s 5G business is to achieve greater success, there is still a lot of work to be done.
Ding Yun, president and managing director of Huawei carrier BG, said in a speech that there are currently over 100 million 5G users in China, and many users have bought 5G packages, but they are not using 5G mobile phones.
On the other hand, the area where users with 5G mobile phones are located may not be covered by 5G. On the whole, the matching degree of "machine", "network" and "set" is still not high.
In this regard, operators need to integrate and pull data from billing, operations, and terminal sides for in-depth insights and precision marketing, quickly improve the degree of high matching between “machines”, “networks” and “sets”, and complete 5G user migration .
In addition, it is also necessary to make the 5G network truly usable through the ultimate experience of differentiation.
Ding Yun said that when there are enough 5G users, the next key is to make the business happen on the 5G network and fully release the traffic dividend of the 5G network. The applications of concern include video, high-definition and interactive, 4K , 8K, VR, AR, XR, free perspective, cloud games, holography, etc.
Compared with 4G, the system capacity of 5G has increased dozens of times, and the accompanying increase in power consumption poses new challenges to the power supply system of some sites.
Operators need to adopt comprehensive solutions to minimize the total cost of ownership of the entire network, improve the efficiency of the entire network, and maximize the value of the 5G network without affecting the performance of the entire network.