In the next few months, the laying range of 5g has been further increased. Only from the Beijing area where the author is located, 5g signal coverage has been gradually realized in most areas of the jurisdiction.
Although most of them are still "fake 5g" signals that can not be seen and used, I always believe that when 5g is officially put into commercial use, these base stations will be switched on synchronously so that Beijing can also have 5g experience comparable to Seoul, South Korea.
Finally, on November 1, on the first day of 5g's official commercial operation, we also excitedly took 5g mobile phones and started the speed test at 5g coverage points around the company.
In the past few months of 5g commercial trial, 5g signal has been gradually available in the office of the company. When we start the test, our first stop will naturally start from here 5g indoor test, almost less than 4G 36.4mbps download, 11.7mbps upload. The "5g" performance of less than 4G gives us a first blood.
However, we are not discouraged by such results. After all, indoor coverage is not an easy thing for 5g. Moreover, the 4G speed of the company itself is not very ideal. It is good to show that 5g is already good. Let's go out to test 5g outdoor test performance just reached the speed downstairs, and the performance close to 300mbps made us happy. It seems that the official business really let operators start 5g speed of the base station.
Although there is still a big gap between the 600mbps and 900mbps tested in the commercial stage, but it has really realized the performance higher than 4G. Will you try more and the high-speed rate will appear After several rounds of tests, we found that the network speed is 290 + Mbps, which is called "stable as an old dog".
According to the past experience of speed measurement, such stability seems to be abnormal. It seems that there is a threshold, but in any case, it is no more than 300mbps.
At this time, a colleague reminded us that we missed a very important point: "we are not really 5g users yet".
During the previous trial commercial period, our test cell phone number is the 5g experience package handled by Unicom, and the validity of the experience package is until December 31 this year.
But when 5g was officially put into commercial use, we didn't really handle the 5g package of operators.
According to the instructions of China Unicom's 5g package - Unicom users who do not order 5g service can use the maximum 300mbps rate, that is, non 5g users like us will be limited in 5g network, which is also the real "threshold" for our test speed Of course, even if you order 5g package, you will still be limited by the speed. The network speed that can be unlocked varies according to the different tariff.
Taking Unicom as an example, the rate of three-tier 5g packages of 129, 159 and 199 yuan is limited to 500mbps, while the more "high-end" 5g packages of 299, 399 and 599 yuan can enjoy 1000Mbps.
See here perhaps a lot of users have a variety of spray. However, although from the user's point of view, such an experience is indeed uncomfortable, but from the perspective of the operator, such an approach is not to blame.
After all, to be an operator is not to be a charity, and 5g is not a welfare. It's OK to differentiate pricing by user groups.
To put it another way, if you don't set a certain threshold and users flock to experience 5g, then it's hard for a base station with super high load to guarantee users' 5g experience.
At this stage, 5g construction and experience are not yet mature, so for users, if there is a real demand for higher-speed network, then you can consider handling high-end 5g package.
For the vast majority of users, high tariff and high unit price terminal equipment will be doomed to become a threshold, and it is a better choice to keep waiting and waiting for its maturity.