From step by step to leading the world
Since the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 5G vision (IMT. Vision) and 5G technology trends in 2015, it has experienced a standard process of more than two years, finally at the 3GPP Plenary Session on June 14, 2018 (TSG) #80) Approved the fifth-generation mobile communication technology standard (5G new air interface). The independent networking function was frozen, and 5G completed all the standardization work of the first phase 3GPP Rel-15. The curtain of the 5G era was officially opened.
And Chinese companies, from the entry of the 2G era, to the 3G era, followed by foreign participation, to participate actively in the 4G era, independent innovation to introduce mainstream communication standards, and then to occupy the global leading position in the 5G era, Chinese enterprises finally lead in the global game of communication standards Coquettish.
In the 2G era, European countries established the GSMA international organization to establish the GSM standard; the United States established the CDMA Development Organization (CDG) to introduce the CDMA standard; and Japan established the PHS standard. By this, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel Such companies have also developed into a communications giant. With this China, there is basically no participation in the 2G standard.
In the 3G era, after the introduction of CDMA2000 and WCDMA in the United States and Europe respectively, China followed suit to launch TD-SCDMA through independent innovation, thus occupying a place in the domestic communication equipment market.
In the 4G era, China participated in the global 4G standard development and launched LTE-TDD. Chinese enterprises have played an important role in the global communications equipment manufacturing industry.
In the 5G era, China has made a huge breakthrough in the field of communications. Chinese companies represented by Huawei have successfully promoted the polar code to promote the 3GPP standard as a technical solution for 5G control channels. This is the first time that Chinese companies have pushed into the basic communication framework agreement. In the 5G technology innovation and standard setting, the strength of China's power can be solidly promoted, and it will continue to achieve breakthrough results, and gradually have the right to speak in the global communication standards and eventually lead the industry, which is largely benefited from Chinese enterprises. Great investment in technological innovation. Currently, the world's top four communications equipment manufacturers are: Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia, China's Huawei and ZTE, China's powers occupy half of the country.
China's advancement in communication standards benefits from high investment in research and development
The development of communication standards depends first on the strength of the country. This is a contest between politics, economy and technological strength. Historically, strong market and R&D investment are the strong backing of standard strength. Today China is already the second largest economy in the world, developing. Speed is leading the world's major countries, and has more and more voice in many fields. This is the most solid foundation for China's 5G technology to go to the world.
The strength of China's telecom operators is not the same. China Mobile is the world's largest number of telecom operators. China Telecom and China Unicom are also among the world's telecom operators, and have a huge influence in the world telecom industry. China 4G The number of base stations accounts for 60% of the number of 4G base stations in the world. Among the 5G standardization organizations, Chinese telecom operators have also played an important role. Two Chinese mobile technology experts have served as the 3GPP RAN working group and vice chairman of the RAN1 working group.
China's communication equipment and mobile phone manufacturing industry has also developed greatly in recent years. Most of the world's mobile phones are produced in China. Chinese companies have built hundreds of telecom networks around the world. At present, China's top ten mobile phone brands have occupied 7 seats. Mobile phone technology has also reached world-class level. More and more communication equipment manufacturers, mobile phone manufacturers and chips and other related companies actively participate in the formulation of 3GPP standards. Currently, there are 23 Chinese companies registered to participate in the discussion of 3GPP 5G standards. They are willing to invest a lot of money in the development of 5G new technology.
National strength, telecom operators, communications equipment vendors, mobile phone manufacturers and chip manufacturers have accumulated high investment in research and development, helping China to win more voices in the formulation of 5G standards.
See the strength of 5G standard from patent data
First-class enterprises do standards, second-rate enterprises do services, and third-rate enterprises make products. Whether it is mobile communication technology or other international standards organizations, in the process of setting standards, enterprises hope that their technical proposals submitted by standards development organizations will become standards. In this way, we can gain an advantage in product development efficiency and cost. At the same time, using as much technology as possible with independent knowledge can also enable enterprises to reduce costs in future patent cross-licensing.
Since the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 5G vision (IMT. Vision) and the 5G technology trend in November 2015, it has experienced a standard process of 32 months, finally at the 3GPP Plenary Session on June 14, 2018. (TSG#80) Approved the fifth-generation mobile communication technology standard (5G new air interface). The independent networking function was frozen, and 5G completed all the standardization work of the first phase 3GPP Rel-15.
A number of mobile communication companies, including communication equipment vendors, chip manufacturers, and communication operators, have promoted 5G standards for wireless technologies that have long-term R&D and innovation outputs, and promoted the 5G standard process, making it impossible to realize the 5G vision. Destruction of the contribution, but also in the 5G standard imprinted up to thousands of 5G new standard necessary patent related inventions.
According to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI, a non-profit telecommunications standardization organization, there are currently 457 members from 47 countries, involving telecommunications administrations, national standardization organizations, network operators, equipment manufacturers, private network services , user research organization, etc., is a member of the global standardization organization 3GPP) The recent search results of the official website indicate that as of June 14, 2018, 10 companies including Huawei, Ericsson, Samsung, Sharp, Intel, etc. 5G standard patents up to 5401.
In the field of 5G new air interface, the total number of standard patents declared is up to 5,124 (see Table 1). From the declared 5G standard patent holders, the patent holders holding more than 1000 5G new air interface standard patents include: Huawei, Ericsson Samsung. Among them, Huawei ranked first with 1481 declared patents (28.90%), Ericsson claimed 1134 patents (22.13%). According to the second place, Samsung declared patents with 1038 items (accounting for 20.26%) Ranked in the top three.
Table 1: 5G new air interface declaration standard patent statistics
In the field of 5G new core network (see Table 2), only Huawei, LG, and ETRI have stated that they hold relevant standard patents, totaling 277. Among them, Huawei has ranked first in patent rankings with 214 families (77.26%). LG declared the second place in patents with 49 families (accounting for 17.69%), and ETRI ranked third in terms of patents for 14 families (5.05%).
Table 2: 5G New Core Network Statement Standard Patent Statistics
From the above-mentioned ETSI's published 5G standard patent statistics, 5G standard patents have been concentrated in a small number of enterprises that continue to attach importance to this field, investing and insisting on continuous innovation, such as Huawei, Ericsson and other enterprises. Only insist on innovation, strengthen independent intellectual property rights. Accumulation can have the right to speak in the 5G era.