Recently, China Telecom opened its 5G base station in Lanzhou. At this point, China Telecom has opened 5G pilot projects in six cities including Xuan'an, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu and Lanzhou, marking a completely new phase for China Telecom's 5G pilot project !
On the operator World Network understanding, China Telecom opened the first 5G base station is located in Shenzhen, time is this year's October 27.
On the 8th of November, China Telecom provided network security and opened 5G base station in Xiong'an.After field test, field test data show that 5G can be increased about 20 times compared with the existing peak experience of 4G users.
Prior to this, in August, China Telecom announced the launch of the 5G Innovation Demonstration Network in Xiong County, Xuan'an New District, Hebei Province, in an effort to achieve 5G commercial trial in 2019 and 5G commercial launch in 2020. The launch of 5G base station shows that the progress of China Telecom is slightly accelerated.
The 5G base stations in the six major cities of China Telecom are quite densely populated for the simple reason that the six cities themselves are well-established 5G pilot cities set by China Telecom.
In other cities, China Telecom launched 5G base station in Suzhou on November 10, Shanghai in November 11, Chengdu in December 1 and 5G pilot base in Lanzhou on December 2.
The pilot launch of 5G base station marks the overall planning of 5G base station of China Telecom to enter the next stage.China Telecom will continue to cooperate with network equipment manufacturers and chip makers and explore deeply in the next step.Meanwhile, the joint and industrial chain enterprises will launch 5G technology and vertical industry Applications Combining research and experimentation, for example, China Telecom will conduct a wide range of research and experiments in areas such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), tactile internet, car networking, wireless communications applications, unmanned aerial vehicles and power grids.
Information shows that since 2016, China Telecom has led 20 projects of 5G international standard projects, submitted 258 international standard documents and 102 technical patent applications, and made new progress in 5G research and development. China Telecom plans to launch 5G laboratories and outfields in 2017-2018 Test, commercial deployment in 2019, and commercialization around 2020.