"5G Global Competition" Report: The United States lags behind China in the overall preparation of 5G

Recently, China, Japan and South Korea held the 6th China-Japan-Korea Communication Ministers Meeting in Tokyo. The three countries started negotiations on 5G broadband commercialization. In the future, they will share experimental results. It is estimated that around 2019-2020, 5G will be allowed. Commercialization.

In mid-April this year, the US Wireless Association's CTIA released the "5G Global Competition" report pointed out that China's 5G commercial progress is currently ranked first, and the United States is still behind China in terms of 5G overall preparation progress.

Although China is lagging behind the world in deploying 4G, it will launch 5G in 2019, when the biggest change in technology development is China.

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According to "Interface News", China, Japan and South Korea are the leading countries in today's 5G technology. Japan plans to start using 5G at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to provide hot spots. South Korea's 5G development master plan decided to launch 5G commercial services in 2020.

China Telecom is expected to begin the 5G test this year, and is scheduled to begin commercial use next year and official commercial services in 2020.

"Nikkei Business News" reported that China's three major telecom operators intend to invest 300 billion yuan by 2020 to establish a new generation of 5G communication network. China Mobile intends to start commercialization in some regions this year, and will change the 4G base station to 5G next year.

The report also said that if the technical standards are unified globally, then the 5G emerging business model will be easier to establish. Once the unified 5G standard is approved and promulgated, global manufacturers must perform equipment production, networking, and terminal access in accordance with standards. However, the patents under this standard are only in the hands of a few manufacturers, so other companies need to obtain patent licenses from the core patent manufacturers.

At present, Qualcomm has 15% of 5G patents, and Finland's Nokia has 11%. China's position in 5G research and development has also changed. As of the beginning of last year, 10% of the 1,450 5G important patents were owned by China.

The United States has been actively exploring 5G since 2017. Verizon Telecom is scheduled to begin commercial deployment in the second half of this year, while the European Union is expected to begin commercial trials this year, starting commercial time by 2020.