Mai Yanzhou, deputy general manager of China Unicom, said the company has opened 130,000 5G base stations and the total size of 5G base stations will exceed 300,000 by the end of this year.
On June 6, 2019, China officially issued 5G licenses to telecom operators. Mai Yanzhou said yesterday at the "5G licensing anniversary" conference that China Unicom will strive to achieve commercial use of SA (Standalone) network by the end of September.
According to Mai Yanzhou, over the past year, China Unicom's 5G ecosystem has been growing, and the industry applications have been Accelerated landing. The "Lighthouse Initiative" has fostered more than 40 products in the three major categories of connectivity+, convergence+ and ecology+, and members of the Innovation Alliance have reached nearly 800.
He also said that by the end of this year, the total number of China Unicom 5G base stations will exceed 300,000, achieving coverage in all cities above the prefecture level nationwide. A 5G network with 200MHz ultra-high bandwidth and a peak rate of 2.5Gbps will be built in hotspot areas.
China Unicom insists on SA as the target architecture and aims to achieve commercialization of SA network by the end of September, further enhancing the impact of 5G network to support industrial Internet applications.
China Unicom and China Telecom are working together to build 5G base stations in several cities, the first of its kind in the world, which is technically difficult.
Mai Yanzhou noted that the two sides are actively promoting high-bandwidth, large-capacity, high-performance 3.5GHz mid-band Research and development of base station equipment, promote the development of international standards for 2.1GHz broadband, and build 2.1G+3.5G frequency band collaboration. 5G networks.
By the end of May 2020, China Unicom and China Telecom had opened a total of 115,000 shared base stations, and opened 5G networks in 31 provinces Share.
