On November 21, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments formally released the "Notice of 16 Sectors on Printing and Distributing the Role of Private Investment in Promoting the Implementation of the Strategy of Making a Powerful Nation," which disclosed: Encouraging private capital to enter the telecom industry and deepening the speed-raising and lowering of fees and charges In the same month, NDRC Announces "Circular of the General Office of National Development and Reform Commission on Organizing and Implementing a New Generation of Information Infrastructure Project in 2018", which clearly states that 5G scale network construction will be carried out in at least 5 cities next year. By then, communications will be ushered in the field of network planning The first wave of change.
5G technology in our country at what level? Layout 5G market Why join the private 'players'? The status of the three major carriers will be shaken it?
5G undertake the mission of changing the role of society
Industry insiders, the previous 3G has 3 standard, 4G has two formats, and as the next generation wireless communication technology 5G, will be in the spectrum, network, terminal, application and other aspects of the real standard unity.
'In order to achieve greater network bandwidth, these previous discrete spectrum allocations are not enough, need to be optimized for consolidation, and be scaled to new frequencies, both to support greater bandwidth and lower overall costs, The industry insiders told China Economic Weekly reporter.
The industry said that the biggest difference between 5G and past wireless communication technology is the object of service. 'Before the service is mainly people, and 5G will truly realize the Internet of things, industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, medical and other industries will operate with the 5G technology Mature, to further promote the development of these industries, it can be said that the 5G is responsible for changing the mission of changing the entire community, industry.
"China Economic Weekly" reporter was informed that the three major domestic carriers have invested over 300 billion yuan in the field of 4G, is still in the cost recovery cycle.In this case, the brewing of the reasons for the construction of 5G?
Shen Gang, deputy general manager of Enterprise Development Department of China Telecom Shanghai Co., told China Economic Weekly reporter that because China is rapidly entering into a smart society, including applications such as industrial internet, artificial intelligence and AR / VR are rapidly popularizing, and their large-scale application needs A new generation of networks to carry, 4G in the case of mobile video to see no problem, and 5G focuses on the objects and objects, objects and the surrounding environment between the high-density, low latency connections and other issues, such as the construction of autonomous driving city, You need to rely on 5G network to achieve seamless connection and interaction between vehicles, lights, road induction coil, intelligent master control platform, and the delay in the millisecond level.
According to insiders, 5G is the most important three applications is a large bandwidth, everything connected, low latency network latency and bandwidth as low as 5G's biggest killer, 10ms 4G network delay can be increased to 5G 1ms. In the download file, play games, etc., the network delay gap is difficult to feel out, but in the driverless (requires millisecond-level interactive response) and so on, the gap called "fatal."
Take the piloting Google Autopilot as an example. It takes 1G of data for 1 second. Currently, Google's autopilot is a standalone version. The data is processed by the vehicle in this device. The most likely mass production is likely to be a networked version , The data collected to the platform, and then processed by the platform after the return control, the delay is very high, even if the delay is 0.1 seconds, the car will be out to go a long distance, there may be an accident, 5G low latency It is very necessary.
'In the era of Internet of Things, there are often over 100 things that a home needs to connect to the network, so new generation networks are needed to be able to make more efficient use of the overall network spectrum and connect more terminals to new systems. However, I expect 4G and 5G Will co-exist, not 5G 4G will all be eliminated. "Shen Gang accept" China Economic Weekly "reporter said.
After entering the Internet of Things era, the demand for IP addresses will increase dramatically, and the acceleration of commercialization of IPv6 comes at a time.Wenzhou Steel introduced that at present, China is accelerating its deployment of IPv6 and will build the world's largest commercial network in 5 to 10 years. At the end of the year, IPv6 network scale, user scale and traffic scale in China will rank first in the world. Networks, applications and terminals fully support IPv6 and fully implement the smooth evolution and upgrade to the next generation of Internet to form a leading global next-generation Internet technology industry system .
5G commercial coming, China is expected to lead the world
China Economic Weekly reporter learned that 5G will be the first commercial use of large bandwidth scenarios, South Korea has plans to provide 5G technical services next year's Winter Olympics, South Korea's Samsung last month also announced plans to build 5G network with British carriers this year and provided by Samsung Base station and equipment.
Compared with foreign countries, China seems to be more mature in 5G layout. In 2009, China had already conducted 5G research and demonstrated 5G prototype base stations in the next few years.
On November 6, 2013, Huawei announced that it will invest 600 million U.S. dollars by 2018 to conduct R & D and innovation on 5G technology and predict that users will enjoy 5G mobile network by 2020. On May 31, 2016, the first Global 5G conference held in Beijing, China began to 5G core position; November 17, 2016, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project, similar to the International Telecommunication Standardization Organization) 87th meeting to discuss the 5G short code scheme, Huawei won the final program, the Chinese program selected 5G standard.
From the 2G era can only run behind others to become one of the 5G standards makers, who mastered the core technology of 5G, who mastered the future.
Grund, president of the Global System for Mobile communications Systems (GSMA), said: "China will certainly be one of the first countries in the world to have 5G formally deployed by 2020. In the field of mobile communications, China is not only a leading country, but also an innovation Driven country. '
At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has started the third phase of the 5G R & D trial focusing on R & D, verification and industrial collaboration on the eve of commercialization. It is expected that commercial or near-commercial 5G products will be introduced in June next year.
The three major operators in China also indicated that they will take the first step toward commercial trial of 5G in 2018 and strive to achieve 5G scale commercial use by 2020.
A private telecommunications company official told China Economic Weekly reporter that China 's telecommunications construction is actually state guidance and promotion. It is very hard for Europe and the United States to cover the infrastructure of base stations, towers and optical cables as densely and deeply as ours. According to the 5G attributes, base station density construction will certainly be much higher than now.Although the standard of ITU 5G has not been frozen (still keep updating), it is not until the middle of next year At first, however, some localities and enterprises are now beginning to make basic preparations such as 5G base station reserve and cloud storage infrastructure.
The industry believes that China is likely to enter the era of the first 5G network, but also once again confirmed that China can fully achieve the 5G network commercialization plan by 2020. 'Unlike 3G or 4G era, we followed people running, 5G era We are leading everyone. '
Privately funded 5G layout, identify the positioning is the key
In order to ensure leading position in the era of 5G, the relevant government departments in the policy to give strong support last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments issued a document encouraging private capital to enter the telecommunications industry is the most obvious example.Under the policy of support, private capital began to gradually enter the 5G industry chain.
Recently, China's completely independent intellectual property rights of a new generation of ultra-high speed wireless communications (EUHT) by the Guangdong private enterprises New Shoreline Computer Systems Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "new shoreline") was introduced to Shanghai.It is reported that Shanghai Hong Kong Tongchuang (Shanghai) Culture Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Shanghai Hong Kong Tongchuang') and the new shoreline joint venture company to further develop the EUHT's core technologies and products.
According to reports, EUHT technology is currently the world's first 5G technology successful test and put into operation 5G technical timetable than proposed by the ITU 3 to 5 years. EUHT technology development lasted 6 years and 3 rounds, included Its major feature is the ability to support 'three highs, three lows and three fines' at high speeds of 360km / h (high reliability, high capacity, high speed, low latency, low power consumption, Precision positioning, precision calculation, fine control), while the network itself has integrated sub-meter dynamic positioning function, positioning accuracy and response time are higher than GPS and Compass special algorithm. EUHT technology has passed high-speed rail, subway, intelligent transportation, intensive Coverage and other application tests. Since 2016, it has been put into industrial application in fields such as high-speed railways, subways, smart roads and rural broadband wireless coverage throughout Beijing, Guangdong Province, Jiangxi and Fujian.
At present, Huawei and ZTE and other domestic industry leading companies are stepping up research and development of 5G technology.Huawei company senior technicians told China Economic Weekly reporter, only the technical maturity and can not say that 5G has been fully prepared, because the construction of 5G is an ecology Circle, we need to play together. 'Huawei is also with the industry to explore the application of 5G, because now every 5G applications are for the vertical industry, and these industries have different business models, such as car networking automatic driving, combined with VR live broadcasting requires large bandwidth, low latency, and unmanned aerial vehicles require navigation, remote control, etc. In these applications, Huawei and many partners have tested many scenarios. "
The above Huawei technical staff said partners are also promoters. Many Huawei open labs will provide these partners with funds to test and connect with each other, all of which aim to promote the maturity of technologies and commercialization of the ecosystem.
Private capital can enter a number of sectors of the 5G industry chain. 'Take VR sports events as an example, operators, stadiums, event organizers, live parties and so on can all do VR competitions, private capital can choose one inside, such as venues Reconstruction, network security, terminal content, etc. The new national policy is to support private enterprises and operators to discuss cooperation, such as private enterprises can wholesale traffic from the telecommunications, as a wholesaler to do the second operation and service. "The Huawei senior technical staff said.
In the opinion of the insiders mentioned above, the introduction of private capital can provide better services to more users, but it will not fundamentally change the communications industry. 'The communications industry is a heavy asset with a very large investment and a long period of return, Generally 5 years and above in order to recover the cost of 5G industry chain is longer, more players in the ecosystem.Over the previous model is operators to buy equipment to equipment, the network up and push business, the user directly on the line. By the age of 5G, the industry chain will be more enriched by operators, service providers, equipment providers and third-party partners (terminals, sensors, modules, business platforms, etc.) in any one business or application. Find your own character and location.