5G

MediaTek aims to win 40% of the global 5G chip market, its CEO Rick Tsai said during the earnings call after releasing Q4 and full-year financial results for 2019.

By 2022, 5G will drive social and economic growth in China's digital economy by 25%, IDC said in a report on February 7.

Huawei said on Tuesday that it has decided to set up 5G manufacturing bases in Europe, so that to "truly have 5G for Europe made in Europe."

The British government said Tuesday that it will allow Huawei to help build the country's 5G networks, despite excluding it from “core" parts of the network.

For the first time, 5G is used for telemedicine against new coronavirus outbreak in China

China's three major operators, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, have opened 5G base stations in Wuhan Caidian Huoshenshan with the cooperation of Huawei, according to announcements from the operators.

China Unicom announced today that Shandong Unicom recently completed the first call for a commercial 5G SA core network in the northern region in Ji’nan.

The construction of 5G and 6G is a global effort and research progress in China and other countries is similar for now and it is still in the exploratory stage, Wen Ku, a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, said on Monday.

By the end of 2019, more than 130,000 5G base stations had been built nationwide, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday according to CCTV News.

In the second half of 2019, as 5G began commercialization in China and manufacturers released 5G phones, Chinese users have accepted 5G mobile phones and their willingness to recom…