As can be seen from the above figure, the coverage of Beijing, which belongs to the first tier cities, is not optimistic, let alone the small county town of our hometown?
According to the principle of the above problems, 5g network uses higher frequency electromagnetic wave as signal carrier to increase the amount of information transmission per unit time.
High frequency electromagnetic wave has the characteristics of short radiation distance and poor through wall ability. So the intensity of base station construction is much higher than that of 4G. It's true that you've heard that the base station construction needs to invest billions.
Can we afford 5g set meal?
Now suppose that you are a permanent resident of beishangguangshen who can definitely capture 5g signals and have bought 5g mobile phones, then you can definitely use the summary of 5g packages of the three major operators below. We can clearly see that if you want to use 5g, you need to buy a package of 128 yuan at least, and only 30GB traffic. Think of you used to unlimited flow of unbridled, 30g can control themselves? Once it's over 1GB, it will cost 5 yuan more, or 5g at the speed limit. Isn't 4G fragrant at this time?
The policy of 70% off reservation price and higher rate of package may have some attraction, but people with short Internet age and low income can't have happiness at all.
You can use up 30GB in 4 minutes, do you still crave 5g speed?
On the first day of 5g business, the staff of China Mobile Business Office demonstrated 5g speed and calculated an account for us.
Download more than 10 apps on a 4G network at the same time on a mobile phone, and the progress bar is just like everyone's daily use. The app is queued and downloaded slowly; however, when switching to 5g network, it only takes two or three seconds, and all the apps have been downloaded.
This speed is really coveted.
But next, the staff gave us an example and calculated a sum of money, which was impressive: download a high-definition film of about 2G, join the package of 128 yuan and 30GB, and download 15 in a month.
If the speed is 1Gbps at 5g peak, the 15 films will last for 4 minutes. That is to say, we can use up 30GB & hellip & hellip; in 4 minutes, and then it will cost 5 yuan for 1g.
In fact, most of what we see is that operators are seizing the opportunity to compete for 5g users.
But in fact, we also know that such a speed in the short term, we "have no happiness.". Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, has also said that the popularity of 5g users may take six or seven years.
In fact, 5g's first wave users are not us who hold the terminal, but the enterprise, that is to say, the mobile phone is a very small part of 5g application scenario, which has a broader development space.
For example, on the first day of 5g business, two large screens in the exhibition area are compared with 4K and 8K live broadcasting; for example, the application of mechanical arm.
In addition, at this year's China Unicom smart ecological cooperation conference, Li Guohua, general manager of China Unicom, and the representatives of the partners attending the conference jointly released the "Unicom empowering" ecological cooperation brand, which directly extended the olive branch to the industrial chain. All these indicate the real application space of 5g.
Written in the end
It seems that 5g is not suitable for us to use at present. Maybe when the technology is more mature, the application is more extensive and the price is more people-friendly, we can enjoy 5g speed no later.