Miao Wei: 5G temporary licenses will be issued this year and 5G terminals will be launched in the second half of the year

On January 10, Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, outlined the development blueprint of 5G technology in an exclusive interview with CCTV reporters. This year, my country will promote 5G commercially, some regions will issue 5G temporary licenses, and commercial products such as 5G mobile phones and 5G iPads will be used in the second half of the year.

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In Miao Wei's view, in the future about 20% of 5G facilities will be used for communication between people, and 80% will be used for things and things, things and people, that is, the Internet of Things, such as the driverless cars of the future.

According to the plan, my country's 5G will be pre-commercialized in 2019 and officially commercialized in 2020. This year, the country will issue 5G temporary licenses in several cities, so that large-scale networking can be realized first in some cities and hot spots, while accelerating the industrialization process of terminals and network construction. Miao Wei revealed that it is expected that by the second half of this year, products that can truly be used for commercial purposes will be put on the market, such as 5G mobile phones and 5G iPads.

As the terminal users of 5G networks, mobile phone manufacturers are unwilling to lag behind and have expressed their intention to launch 5G mobile phones in the near future. Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi, said that the Xiaomi MIX 3 5G version will be launched in Europe in the first quarter of this year. Zhou Wei, director of vivo's Global Institute of Artificial Intelligence, said that vivo plans to complete the research and development and mass production of the world's first batch of NSA and SA 5G mobile phones in 2019, launch the first 5G pre-commercial mobile phone, and truly realize the commercial use of 5G smart phones in 2020.

In addition to the consumer sector, the country will also accelerate the application of 5G technology in education, medical care, elderly care and other fields this year. "One thing worth mentioning here is the Internet of Vehicles. In the future, our road network will also be digitally transformed. In the future, traffic lights will not only emit red, green and yellow, but also a wireless signal using 5G. In the future, smart connected cars can also receive this wireless signal through sensors, building a large network system that connects cars, roads and people." Miao Wei said.

Recently, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology released the "Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation and Development Action Plan (2019-2022)". The action plan proposes to actively promote Beijing to become a key demonstration application city for 5G vehicle networking, complete the construction of 5G vehicle networking in key areas in 2020, promote the construction of intelligent network environment and monitoring and evaluation environment on highways such as Yanchong Expressway, Beijing-Xiongan Expressway, and New Airport Expressway, and mark dedicated lanes for intelligent network connection.

5G network is also a field that the three major operators must compete for. From the market performance in the 3G and 4G eras, we can see that whoever can seize the opportunity can gain users and markets. Facing the advent of 5G, the three major operators have all made great efforts in research and development and testing. China Mobile is currently stepping up the pace of 5G network construction. China Mobile has previously announced the progress of its 5G network construction and has carried out trial network construction in many cities. China Unicom also stated that it will start the trial commercial use of 5G network in China in the third quarter of 2019. It has currently built 5G networks in 16 key cities across the country and conducted some large-scale network tests. China Telecom has signed an artificial intelligence strategic cooperation framework agreement with Shanghai Nokia Bell to "empower" China Telecom's end-to-end intelligent network.