Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Minister Miao Wei said that from the two integration, the past five years, China's intelligent manufacturing level has improved significantly, based on the Internet 'double hit' platform for rapid growth, built the world's largest broadband network, the Internet economy In the forefront of the world.
According to China Telecom Group Party Secretary, Chairman Yang Jie introduced, as of the end of August, the national 4G population coverage has reached 98%.
According to the China Unicom issued a fixed plan file shows that China Unicom this time in the field of 4G total investment of 55.09 billion yuan, 5G network and related business projects a total investment of 27.1 billion yuan, the total investment in innovative business projects 3.213 billion yuan, the three major business The future investment is expected to 85.403 billion yuan. 4G investment accounted for more than half.
For China Unicom generous investment 4G, a number of industry insiders to the "China Business" reporter said that after about 3 years of development, China in the 4G network is the world's leading, and the future will be 5G and 4G coexist. 4G construction is in a perfect user experience, convergence of the future critical period, the three major telecom operators will still 4G network construction as the current focus.
4G network global leader
According to China Unicom 2017 mid-year report shows that the first half of 2017, China Unicom 4G users a net increase of 34.26 million, a total of 138 million, 4G users accounted for mobile billing users increased by 23.7% year on year, reaching 51.5%. ARPU (that is, the average revenue per user) is 66.5 yuan, higher than the overall mobile payment account ARPU 48. In addition, China Unicom mobile Internet data traffic grew 325.7%, mobile Internet revenue reached 42.9 billion yuan to 4G as the representative Large flow package contribution significantly.
It can be seen, 4G business in China Unicom's revenue accounted for continued to increase, 4G pull the user growth and enhance the value of obvious.
Compared with its competitors, China Unicom still has a lot of room for growth.According to the three operators in September announced in August 2017 operating data, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom's total 4G users reached 616 million, 1.6 100 million households, 152 million households.
From the industry trends, the industry believes that with the mobile Internet business and mobile video services, the rapid development of 4G users of the scale and proportion continued to increase, mobile data traffic consumption growth, the three major operators, the 4G network for continuous expansion and capacity upgrading is necessary.
In addition, China Unicom Chairman Wang Xiaochu said in the mid-year performance communication, 2G migration to 4G and 4G migration to 5G is not the same, because 4G and 5G need to coexist, and 5G communication also need 2 years to 3 years of maturity , So there is still need 4G expansion to bring income.
In contrast, China Mobile and China Telecom, while improving the 4G network construction, is also developing the Internet of Things, software definition network (hereinafter referred to as 'SDN') and other technology business.It is reported that China Mobile has been through independent research and development to build the industry The largest openStack (cloud computing open platform) system and advanced large data platform, the deployment of thousands of nodes; China Telecom in the field of things has made a breakthrough, becoming the first launch of the Internet of things package operators.
Nearly half of the world's 4G users come from China, about one-third of China Mobile users can say that China's 4G network construction has been at the forefront of the world, whether from the scale or from some technology research and development And so on, are located in the ranks of the first echelon. "Telecom analyst Fu Liang said.
According to the Ministry of Industry announced in September, "2017 August, the main indicators of the completion of the communications industry," shows that as of August 31 this year, China's mobile phone users reached 1.382 billion, of which, up to 929 million 4G users, mobile Internet Users of 12.17 million from the digital scale point of view, at present, China has become a veritable network power, with the world's largest number of Internet users and the most abundant mobile network applications.
Internet of things to promote industrial upgrading
The domestic 4G licensing has been three years time, for this time 4G investment and construction of specific direction, the reporter had asked China Unicom aspects of the reporter learned that, in addition to further improve the 4G network coverage, improve the network depth of transmission rate, the Internet of things China Unicom as one of the key innovation business.
It is understood that China Unicom has developed a 'Internet of Things platform' ecological strategy: will build based on cloud computing, large data, artificial intelligence, level of ability and industry common ability of the Internet of Things based platform. This platform can reach 60 million total number of connections , Service more than 10,000 industry users, API calls can be more than 3 billion times.
According to Chen Xiaotian, general manager of China Unicom Internet of Things business, China Unicom's platform not only enhance the enterprise's own network connection management capabilities, but also to further support B2B2C business model to meet the needs of enterprises for the final consumer to provide all kinds of innovative services, To further reduce the communication, labor and support and other production costs, change the service model, improve operational efficiency, so as to adapt to the era of information economy, the transformation of traditional industrial enterprises need to upgrade.
China Mobile in the recent cloud of the General Assembly on the release of the Internet of Things development plan, and announced the establishment of China Mobile Internet of Things Alliance, starting the China Mobile and industry partners of the latest products and solutions. China Mobile Vice President Shajiao Said that this year will be 346 cities in the country to start the construction of mobile networking, before the end of some key cities to achieve commercial, networking, intelligent connections will be added 100 million, the total size of 200 million.
China Telecom has built a full-coverage network in the narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). On June 27 this year, China Telecom released an open platform for Internet of Things. The platform consists of connection management, application enablement and vertical service. , The global, safe and credible end-to-end service.Currently, China Telecom Internet of Things open platform has provided more than 30 million pieces of network card connection management services, which contains nearly 10 million NB-IoT network card, connection management services The number of customers over 4000, the number of connection management API calls more than 200 million times a week.
At present, the Internet and intelligent manufacturing industry has penetrated into all aspects of manufacturing R & D, production and marketing, and continue to promote the continuous transformation of the manufacturing industry. Chen Xiaotian said that the Internet of Things industry is at a critical stage of large-scale development, with the rapid development of Internet of things, combined with the Internet of things and mobile Internet various types of new applications quickly emerged, is expected to further change the current industrial structure for traditional industries or innovative Small and medium enterprises to achieve cornering or lane overtaking provides a rare opportunity.
Compete for 5G voice
'Can be said that the three major operators have been out of the' 1G blank, 2G, 3G catch up 'situation, to achieve a leading position in the 4G breakthrough.' As the network CEO Xiang Ligang said, 'the current situation , Based on the past few years, domestic operators and equipment manufacturers in the technical and user scale breakthrough and growth, for the development of 5G international standards, domestic enterprises will be more than the right to speak.
'5G arrival means that we will usher in a time of all things interconnected.' China Mobile Institute of Wireless Technology Institute deputy director Yang Guang recently said in an interview, 'If the 4G analogy for' road ', 5G Is the 'fortune'. 5G will bring anytime, anywhere immersive experience, safe and reliable automatic driving will become a reality.
It is reported that China Mobile officially launched 5G R & D work in 2012, has formed a set of 5G technology system, has been with the industry partners to develop 3.5GHz prototype development and verification, high-frequency communications prototype development and testing, 5G system concept verification. Ubiquitous, connected to the pan, intelligent pan is our goal, which involves 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, large data and Internet of things and a series of sophisticated technology.China Mobile and terminal enterprises, equipment companies, Industry applications, etc., to carry out the vertical areas of innovation and cooperation. 'Yang said.
China Unicom has set up a 5G open laboratory in 2016 to carry out research on potential key technology feasibility verification and 5G base station architecture, etc. In May and June this year, China Unicom has been with ZTE, Huawei and other communications equipment manufacturers Many 5G off-site testing, which, in the June 24 cooperation with Huawei's test, the bandwidth of 200MHz, single-user peak rate of 20Gbps.
For 5G technology research and commercial, China Unicom said, plans in 2018 in 5 to 6 cities 5G system network verification, 2019 expansion of 5G test the number of cities and the size of the base station is expected in 2020 to carry out a larger scale Designed for commercial 5G networks.
China Mobile said that this year will be carried out in five cities field test, 2019 to achieve pre-commercial, 2020 to achieve the scale of commercial use. China Telecom was listed last year, 5G open laboratory, in addition to apply for 5G related invention patents 59, In 2019 to build a number of pre-commercial network, in 2020 to achieve 5G commercial target.