ZTE has invested 3 billion yuan a year, has formed a team of more than 4,500 technical experts devote themselves fully to 5G standard development, product development and commercial verification, etc. ZTE senior vice president Fan Xiaobing said that in fiscal year 2017, ZTE's research and development investment as much as 12 billion yuan, The next few years will invest 46.7 billion for 5G product development.
ZTE faces the demand for massive access to 5G networks. ZTE proposed a MUSA candidate solution that enables the system to support 3-6 times the number of user accesses under the same time-frequency resources, achieving truly non-scheduling and greatly reducing terminal power consumption MUSA program in the second phase of China's national 5G test test, to achieve 90 million connections / MHz / hour, over ITU defined indicators.
In addition, ZTE has introduced a series of 5G commercial products for commercial use, including coverage of high and low band 5G series of access devices, diversified 5G bearer solutions, flexible and efficient 5G core network, etc. In addition, ZTE recently released 5G E2E network chip Program, the industry's first end-to-end slicing solution for 5G business innovation across the entire network.
In terms of 5G business, ZTE's 5G global cooperation territory has been extended to more than 20 top operators in the world in 2017. Opened the first 5G pre-commercial base station in China with China Mobile and opened the first 5G field test with Softbank in Japan to build the first European Zhang 5G pre-commercial network, etc. Today, ZTE has been carrying 5G full range of products to start the third phase of China's 5G testing, and completed the equipment admission and end-to-end business commissioning.
Entering the era of 5G, TDD will play an important role in 5G new spectrum. In terms of 5G scale, ZTE has accumulated rich TDD technology, a full range of 5G solutions with multi-scenarios and flexible deployment, as well as rich Of the scale of product development, network operations experience, for many years accounted for one third of the world's new TDD shipments, or the world can provide a complete 5G end-to-end solutions, one of the two manufacturers.
ZTE today officially released to the industry "artificial intelligence to help network intelligence - ZTE artificial intelligence White Paper, focused on network communications artificial intelligence. Focus on the recent industry hot spots, the White Paper focuses on the resurgence artificial intelligence uSmartInsight platform solutions and intelligent 5G , Intelligent operation and maintenance, intelligent optimization, smart operation, smart home and other typical scenarios.
In March last year, ZTE paid a $ 890 million fine in a settlement with the U.S. government on export control investigations in the U.S. government. In the wake of this burden, ZTE also made good progress in 2017 with the help of 5G concept stocks. The latest release of FY 2017 Express shows that ZTE achieved operating revenue of about 108.82 billion yuan last year, an increase of 7.49% over the previous year. Net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders of listed companies was about 4.554 billion yuan, an increase of 293.17% over the previous year.
This year's MWC will be held in Barcelona, Spain from February 26 to March 1. ZTE revealed at this conference that at MWC it will bring its first full-screen mobile Blade V9 and a 1.2Gbps download speed Class 5G experience smartphone ZTE expects to release 5G commercial mobile terminals by the end of 2018 or early 2019.