5G news is coming, and the national trial commercial use will start in mid-to-late October!

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After much anticipation, the long-awaited 5G key application 5G messaging is finally coming to everyone. I wonder if everyone is looking forward to it?

On September 29, at the 5G Message High-level Forum of the China International Information and Communication Exhibition, a number of operators including China Unicom and China Telecom generally stated that 5G messages are expected to be trial-commercially available nationwide in mid-to-late October this year.

Among them, China Unicom stated that the national operating platform has been built, and the capabilities of traditional SMS, digital SMS and 5G messages have been centralized. It is expected that 5G messages will be put into trial commercial use nationwide in mid-to-late October. At the same time, China Telecom also stated that 5G messages have entered the final verification stage and will be launched in sync with China Unicom in the fourth quarter of this year.

In addition, China Mobile has the fastest progress in 5G messaging among the three operators. According to previous news, mobile phone products of brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, and Samsung have passed the functional test of 5G messaging. Many Xiaomi mobile phones have already supported China Mobile users to use 5G messaging. So far, China Mobile's 5G messaging application has achieved certain results.

As one of the earliest attempts at 5G commercialization, the upcoming launch of 5G messaging is undoubtedly good news.

We know that 5G messaging is a huge upgrade to traditional SMS services, supporting text, pictures, videos, emoticons, locations, contacts, etc. Even now, 5G messaging application pilots have widely covered many industries such as government affairs, finance, logistics, medical care, education, industry, entertainment, agriculture, etc. With its official commercial use, it will bring great changes to our production and life.

At the same time, the implementation of 5G messaging also means that 5G commercial use has entered a new stage. At present, although 5G construction is fast, the lack of killer applications has always been criticized. Many people think that they have spent money on 5G but have not seen any effect, and they do not understand the large-scale investment and promotion of 5G. Especially for some industry companies, the lack of applications makes them skeptical and cautious about 5G, and the arrival of 5G messaging solves these problems.

Of course, it has been a long journey for 5G messaging to go from concept to implementation.

In April 2019, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom jointly held an online press conference and released the "5G Message White Paper", marking the debut of the "5G Message" heavyweight commercial scenario. The white paper shows that 5G message applications mainly cover two types of scenarios, one is the message interaction between individuals, and the other is the message interaction between individuals and industry users. The emergence of 5G messages has attracted close attention from all parties.

Afterwards, a large number of mobile phone manufacturers expressed their support for 5G messaging and provided support for its popularization and commercialization. Among them, Huawei entered the pilot area in March 2020 to start joint debugging and testing, and officially launched 5G messaging commercialization in June; at the same time, ZTE also made the first call for 5G messaging in April of that year and officially supported 5G messaging commercialization in June. Nearly a dozen companies have jointly helped promote the implementation of 5G messaging.

In August 2021, the 5G Message Working Group, together with seven other units including the China Communications Enterprise Association, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China Telecom Group, China Mobile Communications Group, China Unicom Group, ZTE Corporation, and Huawei, established a 5G Message Joint Laboratory to carry out 5G message-related technical verification work, once again creating a good ecosystem for the commercial use of 5G messages.

The industry predicts that with the continuous acceleration of ecological construction, the full commercial use of 5G messages in the future will produce huge benefits. After all, in 2020, my country has shipped a total of 163 million 5G mobile phones, and a total of 218 new models have been launched on the market. Since 2021, the further acceleration of 5G construction and the continuous acceleration of 5G development will continue to drive the continuous growth of 5G users. In this context, 5G message services have a very wide coverage.

However, while promoting 5G messages to the public, related issues still need to be considered. For example, the charging of 5G messages is a problem that everyone is generally concerned about. Implementation is not the end but only the beginning. The future commercial development of 5G will require more exploration and experimentation.