China Unicom has already deployed a total of 130,000 5G base stations across China, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
Of that total, 115,000 5G base stations were built in partnership with rival operator China Telecom. The 5G base stations provide commercial services in over 50...
Chinese mobile operators are expected to deploy over 600,000 5G base stations by the end of the year, covering cities above the prefecture level in the country, Chinese press reported.
China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom have already built more than 250,000 5G base...
Shenzhen planning to deploy 30,000 5G base stations by the end of 2020
China’s Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is fully covered by 5G technology, Chinese news service Xinhua reported.
Since the beginning of 2020, the airport has accelerated the construction of a 5G network by building...
Qualcomm has launched a certification programme for combining augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices and Snapdragon-based 5G smartphones. The programme will approve tethered AR and VR devices for use by enterprises, as well as consumers, within 12 months, it said.
At the same...
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has signed a 5G network sharing agreement with China Broadcasting Network (CBN), giving the market leader access to the TV provider’s 700 MHz spectrum.
The companies confirmed that they would jointly fund and deploy...
Ericsson has 91 commercial 5G agreements and contracts
China Telecom and China Unicom have chosen to deploy Ericsson Radio System products and solutions as part of their 5G rollouts, specifically making use the Swedish vendor’s dynamic spectrum sharing solution, Ericsson Spectrum Sharing.
The Ericsson Radio...
The city of Xi'an, the capital of China's Shaanxi province, aims to install a total of 25,000 5G base stations by 2022, Chinese press reported.
Xi'an will deploy 9,000 new 5G base stations in the coming months to reach a total of 13,000 by the...
HAPS Alliance includes Ericsson, Nokia, SoftBank, DT, Telefonica, China Telecom, Bharti Airtel and Loon, among others
A coalition of companies are aiming for the stratosphere as a "multi-billion dollar market opportunity" in telecommunications, planetary observation and weather prediction and modeling—including five traditionally terrestrial cellular network...
Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have secured the majority of a contract to provide up to 250,000 5G base stations to China Telecom and China Unicom, Chinese press reported.
With these new contracts, the two Chinese vendors have already secured more than 80% of China’s...
China carriers will deploy a total of 500,000 5G base stations this year, Chinese press reported, citing information provided by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The increase in 5G infrastructure has the main aim of boosting the digital economy in China,...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has partnered with compatriot mobile network operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom to install advanced 5G infrastructure on Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, according to Chinese press reports.
China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless network operator, said its 5G...
China Telecom Shenzhen and Huawei announced they have achieved the 'global ultra-large scale 3D networking' using both macro and pole-based cell sites in China.
According to a release from Huawei, the deployment of hundreds of 5G C-Band Book RRUs will help China Telecom Shenzhen deliver...
The number of 5G users in China’s capital in Beijing has reached the 2 million threshold after Chinese telecom operators launched 5G commercial services more than five months ago, Chinese press reported, citing data from Beijing’s municipal government.
As of March 30, a total of...
The travel ban might be behind the decline in subscriptions seen by Chinese operators
COVID-19 continues to spread, disrupting nearly every corner of the world, every household and every industry. In China, where the virus originated, wireless carriers have reported a loss of 21 million...
China Telecom ended February with a total of 10.73 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the carrier said in a presentation.
The operator also confirmed plans to spend 45.3 billion yuan ($6.4 billion) on 5G in 2020, up compared to 9.3 billion yuan in 2019.
In...
5G technology will account for almost half of China’s overall mobile connections by 2025, according to a recent study by the GSMA.
The 2020 China edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ series, forecasts that China will have  an adoption rate on a par with other...
Almost 90% of mobile ecosystem players in China identified edge computing as a major revenue opportunity in the 5G era, according to a new GSMA survey.
The new GSMA Intelligence report, called "Edge computing in the 5G era: Technology and market developments in China" and...
The Chinese government has granted new licenses to state-run mobile operators to share spectrum for 5G indoor coverage, Chinese press reported.
China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network will share the 3.3-3.4 GHz spectrum for 5G indoor coverage, according to the Ministry of Industry...
From farming to gaming to driving to work, 5G is promising to be a ubiquitous force
There doesn't seem to be a single vertical that isn't being transformed by the next generation of cellular technology. From farming to gaming to driving to work, 5G is...
ZTE also working with China Mobile on hospital network in Wuhan
ZTE Corporation and China Telecom have realized what it claims to be China's first 5G remote diagnosis of the new coronavirus pneumonia backed up with the latest 5G technology, ZTE said in a release.
The...
The Chinese government has awarded a 5G trial license to state-owned cable TV operator China Broadcasting Network with the aim of accelerating the nationwide deployment of 5G in the country.
Through this license, the broadcaster will be allowed to run trials in the 4.9 GHz frequency...
There are already 126,000 5G base stations deployed in China
All the 300 prefecture-level cities in China are expected to be covered by a 5G network by the end of 2020, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
“We are planning to firmly...
Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s chairman Yang Jie as saying.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...
ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the "co-build co-share" mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
