Beijing Unicom and Huawei complete ultra-large-scale 5G-A commercial network deployment
Beijing Unicom and Huawei have jointly built the world's largest 5G-A 3CC commercial network in Beijing, achieving full 5G-A coverage in major core areas such as city centers, covering stadiums, subways, residential areas, scenic spots, business districts, schools and other key scenarios. The 5G-A effectiveness rate exceeds 70%.
[Beijing, China, August 6, 2024] Beijing Unicom and Huawei have recently built the world's largest 5G-A 3CC commercial network in Beijing, achieving full 5G-A coverage in major core areas such as the Fourth Ring Road and the city's sub-center, covering stadiums, subways, residential areas, scenic spots, business districts, schools and other key scenarios. The 5G-A effectiveness rate exceeds 70%, making the network experience of Beijing citizens even more colorful.
5G-A fully covers Beijing's core areas and sub-centers
The Beijing Municipal Communications Administration proposed a three-year 5G-A action plan in the "Beijing Action Plan for Promoting 5G-A Technology Evolution and Application Innovation (2024-2026)", emphasizing that Beijing should play a leading role. Beijing Unicom responded positively, from the 5G-A large-scale networking demonstration at the beginning of the year to the current global ultra-large-scale 5G-A commercial networking, helping Beijing build a "double 10,000-gigabit" benchmark city with leading network construction, leading terminal development, and leading industry empowerment. With the freezing of the first version of the 5G-A standard and the commercial release of more than 20 5G-A terminals, the 5G-A industry ecosystem has matured.
Since Beijing Unicom and Huawei commercialized the world's largest 3.5GHz 2CC urban network in August 2022, the 200MHz 2CC effectiveness rate has exceeded 85%, achieving full coverage of Beijing's urban core area and urban sub-center. In 2023, the two parties completed the deployment of 2.1GHz in key urban scenarios, continuously providing Beijing citizens with a high-quality network experience and preparing for the full commercial use of 5G-A. Today, the upgrade of Beijing Unicom's 5G-A 3CC has become very convenient, laying the foundation for further expanding the scale of 5G-A in the future.
The overall scale of this ultra-large-scale 5G-A 3CC commercial network exceeds 4,000 base stations, covering a variety of key scenarios such as stadiums, schools, scenic spots, subways, business districts, and residential areas, including Wukesong, Capital Gymnasium, Workers' Stadium, Beijing Railway Station, Guijie Street, Panjiayuan, Beijing University of Technology, etc., providing strong 5G-A network capability support for immersive video, ultra-clear live broadcast, cloud games and other services. In addition to consumer scenarios, Beijing Unicom is also actively innovating in CCTV ultra-high-definition shallow compression, Internet of Things, XR separation rendering and other aspects, showing the potential of 5G-A networks to empower thousands of industries.
Yang Lifan, deputy general manager of Beijing Unicom, said: "Beijing Unicom has the world's largest 5G 200MHz network deployment. On this solid foundation, it is very convenient to further enable 3CC carrier aggregation. The scale of 5G-A 3CC will be further expanded to achieve the same coverage scale as 5G 200MHz. Through Huawei's advanced technology and Beijing Unicom's intelligent operation capabilities, we can provide users with a double "Beijing" colorful network experience."
Li Jie, President of Huawei's 5G & LTE TDD field, said: "We are very honored to work with Beijing Unicom to create a new milestone in 5G-A network construction - large-scale commercial use of 5G-A. We will continue to innovate and provide more efficient, smarter and greener network solutions, so that users can experience the ultimate smooth Internet experience through 5G-A networks."