TapTechNews on June 9, it was reported that Zhao Zhiguo, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the 2024 High-quality Mobile Communication Development Forum on June 6 this year. According to the calculation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, in the five years since the commercial use of 5G, 5G has directly driven the total economic output of about 5.6 trillion yuan ($805 billion), and indirectly driven the total output of about 14 trillion yuan ($2.03 trillion).
TapTechNews found out that in the past five years, China has built 3.748 million 5G base stations, and the number of 5G base stations per 10,000 people exceeds 26. The proportion of global 5G base station deployment is more than 2/3; the number of domestic 5G mobile phone users has reached 889 million, and the user penetration rate has exceeded 60%, and the proportion of global 5G users is more than 52%. It has built the world's largest 5G network.
In March this year, China's 5GAdvanced network (5.5G) was officially commercialized. Mobile phone manufacturers such as OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, and Honor have successively upgraded their mobile phones to support this function. In addition, China Mobile has taken the lead in promoting 5G-A commercial deployment in 100 cities and will expand to 300 cities within the year.
In May this year, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Radio and Television jointly announced the start of the commercial promotion of 5G cross-network roaming. When the user's affiliated operator has no 5G network coverage, it can access the 5G network of other operators and continue to use 5G services. It is of great significance for reducing signal blind areas, improving the user experience, accelerating the coverage of the 5G network, especially improving the network coverage level in remote areas and rural areas.