Shenzhen: 1st Chinese city to realize full-scale 5G deployment
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Shenzhen, a city in South China's Guangdong Province known as the "new Silicon Valley" for its role as a base for Chinese high-tech companies, announced Monday that it has finished its 5G network deployment. This makes it the first city in China to offer the next generation of wireless networking at full scale, despite an intensifying China-US technology war.
The city had deployed more than 46,000 5G base
stations as of Friday, Mayor Chen Rugui said during an industry event
Monday. Industry observers said that the number of 5G base stations in
the city puts its 5G deployment on par with the entire European
continent.
China and South Korea are the global frontrunners
when it comes to 5G deployment, while the US has fallen behind, Wang
Zhiqin, deputy director of the China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT), said at the event.
As of the
end of June, China had deployed more than 410,000 5G base stations
across the country, and it will roll out 500,000 new ones by the end of
2020, a CAICT report said. As of the end of July, the total number of 5G
users in China had surpassed 88 million, accounting for more than 80
percent of the global 5G user base and ranking the country No.1.
As
the world's leading 5G equipment provider, Huawei has become the
driving force in helping deploy 5G networks in China, although the
company has faced increasing and relentless US attack.
However,
in spite of efforts by Washington to force its NATO allies including the
Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland to reject Huawei, the Chinese
company remained the largest 5G gear provider, with a market share of
nearly 40 percent in the first quarter of 2020.
"The
latest progress signaled that China has become highly advanced in 5G
deployment with total base stations rolled out in one city exceeding the
overall number of many countries," Jiang Junmu, chief writer at telecom
industry news website c114.com.cn, told the Global Times Monday.
The
full-scale coverage of the 5G network in Shenzhen is the first
commercial citywide standalone network, which would be indispensable for
various application scenarios, Jiang said.
Some Chinese
netizens hailed the full-scale deployment of the 5G network in Shenzhen,
which is home to tech companies including Huawei, Tencent and DJI, even
as those countries were put on a sanctioning list by the US government
as part of the US-initiated technology war against China. "This is a
significant step for China in further advancing its technology,
especially in the face of the US attack," a netizen said.
"The
number of 5G base stations in one Chinese city has surpassed the total
number of 5G base stations in Europe. That's China's speed!" another
remarked.
Huawei has been playing a vital role in supporting the
latest development of China's 5G network deployment. Rotating Chairman
Guo Ping said in a keynote speech Monday that at present, 92 telecom
operators worldwide are deploying 5G commercial networks with the total
number of 5G users now exceeding 100 million.
The progress in 5G
deployment also showcased Huawei's steady supply of 5G base stations,
even though the US government has been beefing up sanctions on the
Chinese company and putting some of its businesses like its smartphone
manufacturing at risk.
Huawei's Guo admitted on Monday that 2020
would be very difficult due to the coronavirus epidemic and external
pressure, but the Chinese company will survive.
Some industry
observers said Huawei has been gradually shifting its primary target
from overseas to the domestic market, where 5G-related investment is
estimated to reach billions of yuan in the next five years.
The
US chipset export ban also has had a limited impact on supplies for
Huawei in the 5G sector, or base station chipsets, Huang Haifeng, an
independent telecom industry analyst told the Global Times Monday. "Also
the demand for 5G base station chipsets is much less than the demand
for smartphone chipsets," he said.
Some observers believe that
Huawei's current inventory would be enough to ensure 5G network
deployment across the globe in the next two years.
Source: Global Times, By Chen Qingqing and Fan Lingzhi in Shenzhen
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