China Mobile: Strive to Open More than 1.1 million 5G Base Stations by the End of the Year

Beijing News Shell Finance News (Reporter Promise) On June 6, on the third anniversary of the issuance of China's 5G commercial license, China Mobile announced that up to now, China Mobile has built the world's largest 5G network, vigorously promoting the co-construction and sharing with China Radio and Television 5G network, opening more than 850,000 5G base stations in total, accounting for more than 1/3 of the world's 5G base stations, basically realizing continuous coverage of urban areas, counties and villages, some key areas, developed rural areas, key property sites are well covered. "(We are) making every effort to build a' double gigabit 'network and strive to open more than 1.1 million 5G base stations by the end of the year to achieve gigabit broadband coverage of 0.22 billion households." Yang Jie, chairman of China Mobile, said that China Mobile will continue to consolidate the foundation of network advantages, accelerate the tackling of cutting-edge technologies such as 6G and next-generation optical communications, and lead the development of information and communication technology in the future.

facing the challenges of large investment in network construction, long capital recovery cycle and lack of experience in integrated application innovation, China's 5G industry has gone through an extraordinary three years. China Mobile revealed that in terms of investment-driven industrial development, China Mobile's 5G-related capital expenditure has exceeded 100 billion yuan annually since 2020, and the cumulative total will exceed 300 billion yuan, which has effectively promoted the development of the industry, promoted economic growth, and gave full play to communications. The role of "ballast stone" of central enterprises. In terms of jointly creating an "innovation highland", China Mobile launched the practice of building a 5G cross-industry ecology during the 2016 Barcelona Mobile World Conference, and established a global 5G open laboratory. So far, it has gathered more than 1400 partners to focus on transportation, Energy, entertainment, industry, smart city, medical, agriculture, finance, education and other fields have carried out integrated innovation exploration; in recent years, china Mobile is also actively carrying out R & D cooperation with technology-based enterprises, universities, scientific research institutes, etc., setting up a total of 12 university joint R & D carriers, 8 enterprise joint laboratories, and 28 5G open laboratories to work with all sectors of the industry to create an ecology of integration and innovation.

In terms of sharing basic capabilities and promoting industrial maturity, China Mobile has opened DICT integrated library, industry intelligent hardware library and industry application library, and implemented a "double billion" sharing plan for its partners. Strengthen the cooperation between the industrial chain and the supply chain, give full play to the advantages of all parties, promote the cost reduction of terminal modules and other costs, and promote the 5G industry terminals from pilot to mass production and then to large-scale application. Vigorously promote the co-construction and sharing with China Radio and Television 5G network, give full play to the advantages of 2.6GHz/4.9GHz capacity and 700MHz coverage to realize multi-frequency coordination and efficient deployment.

"5G is not a simple' 4G 1G', it is more revolutionary and presents higher value. It can provide infrastructure for cross-domain, all-round, and multi-level industrial deep integration, and fully release the amplification and superposition of digital applications on economic and social development., Multiplying effect." Yang Jie said. In terms of helping the digitalization of the industry, China Mobile has more than 200 leading demonstration projects and more than 8600 commercial cases in the 5G industry. It has promoted the application of smart factories, smart metallurgy, smart mines, smart power and other industries on a large scale, enabling the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.