Academician Science Why 5G is not faster than 4G: The mobile phone supporting business is not yet mature and needs time to develop

IT House News on July 9, Academician Wu Hequan of the Chinese Academy of Engineering said in the popular science column “Academician Lectures” that the number of 5G base stations in China is developing rapidly, but there is still a gap compared with the 4G era, the mobile phone supporting business is not mature, and popularization will take time. , so some netizens do not have a strong perception of “fast” 5G.

To put it simply, there is no 4G revolutionary application such as “short video” on mobile phones at present, and there is no application that can demonstrate 5G capabilities. At present, the hot VR and Metaverse businesses have made my country’s world-leading 5G network useless, and it will take some time for us to develop.

He also pointed out that China’s 5G system is currently a global leader in system technology and has made great contributions to international standardization.

IT House learned that data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology last month showed that my country has opened 1.615 million 5G base stations, and the 5G network covers all cities, counties, urban areas and 87% of townships and towns across the country. The total number of 5G mobile phone users exceeds 4.13 billion households. There are 2,400 “5G + Industrial Internet” projects under construction and more than 20,000 5G application cases.

According to the data released by the three major operators, China Unicom had 795 million mobile users and 180 million 5G package users in May; China Telecom had 381 million mobile users and 224 million 5G package users in May; The number of users is 967 million, and the number of 5G package users is 495 million.

Wu Hequan is a communication expert in my country. He graduated from Wuhan University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1964. He served as vice president and chief engineer of the Institute of Telecommunications Science and Technology, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and chairman of the Internet Society of China. He is currently the director of the China Standardization Expert Committee and was elected in 1999. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Academician Wu has long been engaged in the research and development of digital and optical communication systems. Since 2003, as the director of the National Next Generation Internet Demonstration Project Expert Committee, he has organized IPv6 project research and experiments, and as the new generation broadband wireless mobile communication technology major project chief, organized 3G / 4G / 5G project research and development.

In addition, Academician Wu has been responsible for organizing the research of major engineering science and technology consulting projects in recent years. The 30-channel PCM (pulse code communication) terminal equipment developed by him won the National Science Conference Award in 1978, and the 155M / 622M SDH (Synchronous Digital Series) optical transmission developed by him. The system won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1988. In 2002, he won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Technology and Science Award.