5G boom in China: 110 million in one year

While in the West the rollout of networks continues at a slow pace, in China 5G already seems to be at home: CAICT (China Academy for Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) has officially announced that in the last year 110 million new users have subscribed to a tariff plan or a subscription that allows them access to networks already active in the country.

5G: the numbers of the explosion in China

A milestone that testifies how initiatives implemented by Beijing as well as by private companies have been able to generate important results in a short time: the first offers aimed at the consumer target made their debut less than twelve months ago and the authorities only a little over a year ago have concluded the phase of assignment de telcos licenses. All this without forgetting the further growth margins: in the territory there are a total of 1.6 billion mobile users, a figure from which it can be seen that every citizen (the population is close to 1.4 billion people) has more devices or more SIM.

At the end of July, over 460,000 towers were installed in the country for the delivery of the 5G signal, but the goal declared by the central government is to accelerate the pace and exceed the threshold of 600,000 by the end of the year . The first to benefit is Huawei, which while overseas continues to face difficulties, in China it supplies both network infrastructures and mobile devices for end users. In this regard, according to CAICT, 60% of smartphones purchased in August are compatible with the latest generation networks.