Www.sihai.com: on May 11, according to foreign media reports, Durga Prasad malladi, senior vice president of Qualcomm (54.97, 1.80, 3.39%), said in an interview that the company expects the first batch of 5g mobile phones to be released this year, not in 2019.
Malladi said that although most device manufacturers plan to launch 5g phones early next year, some radical regional companies are preparing to launch some 5g compliant phones later this year, offering two or four times the network speed of 4G phones. Malladi said that these manufacturers plan to commercialize later this year, and Qualcomm will do its best to help them.
Operators are currently determining the speed at which they will support early 5g devices. Malladi said that the initial speed is expected to be 2gbps or 4gbps (Gbps means gigabits per second), which is two or four times that of the existing 4G / LTE network.
5g network speed should satisfy users, especially in downtown areas. Based on experiments in cities such as San Francisco, Maradi said: 'about 50% of users have access to about 1.4gb/s, which will change the way you do things. 'when a user's laptop or tablet has such a network speed, the user's consumption will change significantly,' he said.
But most of them are still planning to launch 5g phones next year. In February this year, Qualcomm announced that the first smartphone with X50 5g NR modem will be launched in 2019, and Chinese brand vivo will launch it next year. The 5g modem manufacturers included by Qualcomm include Xiaomi, Nokia (6.35, 0.00, 0.00%), Sony (46.88, - 0.43, - 0.91%), LG, HTC, oppo, etc.
As for operators, this year, China Unicom (13.84%, 0.02%, 0.14%) will conduct 5g pilot in 12 provinces and cities and conduct off-site tests. China Telecom (48.52, 0.05, 0.10%) said that it plans to carry out medium-sized field experiments in several major cities in 2018, so as to make full preparations for the trial commercial use of 5g in 2019 and the subsequent large-scale commercial use. China Mobile, on the other hand, said it would carry out 5g field tests in five cities, including Hangzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou and Wuhan, with more than 100 5g base stations in each city. It would also carry out 5g business and application demonstrations in 12 cities, including Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzhen.
Different from 2G, 3G and 4G, 5g standard will not only improve the data transmission speed of telephone or computer, but also connect cars, machines, goods and crop equipment to the Internet.
The next generation mobile network alliance believes that in addition to providing simple and faster speeds, they predict that 5g networks also need to meet the needs of new use cases, such as the Internet of things (network equipment buildings or web access vehicles), as well as broadcast services and lifeline communication in the event of natural disasters. For example, in sports broadcasting and other activities, images from multiple cameras can be instantly synthesized, so that users can enjoy the game from the perspective they want to watch.