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On April 24, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a document stating that it would reduce some of the radio frequency occupancy fee standards. It is worth noting that the 5G public mobile communication system has reduced the frequency occupancy fee standard and it plans to implement the 'first three years' reduction, and the latter three years will be gradually put in place. ' Preferential policies.
According to the estimates of the industry insiders, the adjustment of the radio frequency occupancy fee charging standard will save China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom a total of 10 billion yuan in expenditure. If the application of the 5G millimeter wave band is considered, it will save The cost of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Up to 3.8 billion from 620 billion
The NDRC stated in a document issued on the 24th that in order to further increase the fee reduction, effectively reduce the burden on enterprises, and promote the development of China's information, communications and aerospace industry, after research, it was decided to lower the radio frequency occupancy fee.
The National Development and Reform Commission stated that it implements the 'first three-year reduction for the first three years of gradual deployment of the 5G public mobile system frequency (5G commercial frequencies for the three major telecommunications operators) and the preferential policies for the use of frequencies from the 5G public communications system. From the date of issue, the first to third year (calculated by fiscal year, the same below) is free of radio frequency occupancy charges. The fourth to sixth years are charged at 25%, 50%, and 75% of the national standards, respectively. The radio frequency occupancy fee is charged. The radio frequency occupancy fee is charged at 100% of the country's stipulated fee standard in the seventh year and later. The National Development and Reform Commission also reduced the frequency occupancy rate for frequency bands above 3,000 MHz.
According to the prediction of the C114 communication network, the adjustment of the radio frequency occupancy fee charging standard will save operators hundreds of billions of expenditures; if the application of millimeter waves is considered in the future, it will save hundreds of billions of yuan in costs.
At present, China has planned to define 3300~3400MHz (in principle, the upper limit of indoor use), 3400~3600MHz and 4800~5000MHz frequency bands as the working frequency band of 5G systems. Calculated by the new standard, operator-related costs will be about 800 million yuan per year respectively. It was reduced to 150 million yuan, 1.6 billion yuan to 1 billion yuan, and 1.6 billion yuan to 600 million yuan.
In addition, if the millimeter-wave frequency band 24.75~27.5GHz and 37~42.5GHz are all used for 5G (only calculating the outdoor environment), the frequency band occupancy fee will be reduced from the original RMB 6200 million/year to 3.875 billion yuan/year. The maximum amount of 'red envelopes' is the largest. If only the frequency band below 6GHz is considered, operators will save 5.25 billion yuan in expenditure in the first three years, and will save 2.625 billion yuan in the next three years.
High 5G construction costs are still difficult to solve
All countries and regions are contending for the level of 5G construction, and they intend to be at the forefront of the next-generation communications technology. However, the high costs of 5G construction have also become annoyance for the industry. Zhang Tongsu, dean of the China Mobile Research Institute, previously accepted In an interview with the Daily Economic News, the reporter said that 5G will significantly improve its capabilities in relation to 4G, and construction costs will face some new challenges due to many reasons.
The data provided by the analysis department of the CITICS communications industry to the reporter of the “Daily Economic News” shows that it is expected that China will officially start 5G construction in 2019 and build it on a large scale from 2020. It is expected that the future 5G base station volume will be 2 times that of 4G. The main investment of operators in 5G network construction may reach 1.23 trillion yuan, which is a 68% increase over 4G investment. In fact, the three major operators are also seeking to use existing network resources to promote the construction of 5G networks at a low cost.
In the international market, precious communication spectrum resources are mainly auctioned. At the beginning of April this year, the British telecommunications regulator Ofcom launched a 5G spectrum auction. Four major mobile operators in the United Kingdom have jointly submitted a bid of 1.35 billion pounds (about 12 billion yuan). In China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance decide on the corresponding spectrum allocation and prices.
Xie Ying, vice president of Shenzhen Donica Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters: 'This is indeed good news for operators. It may be better for aviation ATG (air-ground communication systems). Operators will have greater motivation and determination. ATG was done. 'Daily Economic News' reporter noticed that the NDRC also reduced the frequency occupancy fees for satellite communications systems, especially high-throughput satellite systems.
This is undoubtedly a good news for operators. However, compared to the huge 5G investment, it is still a bit of a 'little ugly.' Telecom industry analyst Fu Liang told the "Daily Economic News" that '(yes) the industry is positive, However, it is small positive. Compared with 5G investment of several hundred billion, it has little effect.
Different from the United States and other countries, China's early 5G dominates the spectrum below 6GHz, and will only consider millimeter waves afterwards. Fu Liang also stated that, in the absence of millimeter-wave calculations, there are uncertainties in the number of operators operating in other frequency bands.