Previously, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G commercial licenses to China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Radio and Television. The three operators obtained 5G commercial license issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and got the qualification to start 5G commercial business.
So what are the expectations and progress of 5G base station construction in the future?
August 27, according to domestic media reports, at the future Summit Forum of 5G Zhilian held by China International Intelligent Industry Expo in 2019, Han Xia, director of the Information and Communication Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, revealed that according to the plan, China is expected to build more than 50,000 5G base stations in 50 cities in 2019.
In addition, not long ago, China Mobile, China Unicom and Telecom released their mid-year financial reports, which showed the changes of the investment of the three major operators in 5G network construction, as follows:
China Mobile's 5G investment increased to 24 billion yuan. The expected investment as of March was 15 billion to 17 billion yuan, an increase of about 50%.
China Unicom will invest 8 billion yuan in 5G in fiscal year 2019 (as of December 2019). The amount of Investment announced in March is between 6 billion and 8 billion yuan. This time, the target is set to the upper limit.
China Telecom Group's 5G investment in fiscal year 2019 (as of December 2019) remained unchanged from March, with a budget of 9 billion yuan.
The commercial release time of 5G of the three major operators was postponed to before September 20 or after National Day.