China’s MIIT gives go-ahead to four companies to do 5G commercial deployment

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on June 6 issued 5G licenses to four companies—China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network Corporation Ltd (CBN), signifying a significant step for China’s efforts to deploy and popularize 5G technology.

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Focusing on such areas as industrial Internet, IoT (Internet of Things) and IoV (Internet of Vehicles), companies should actively foster the integrated application and innovative development of 5G based on the market need and their own business growth, so as to boost digitalization, connectivity and intelligence development for each industry, said Miao Wei, Minister of the MIIT.

China's MIIT had granted licenses at the end of 2018 to the three stated-owned mobile carriers of the aforesaid four companies (excluding CBN) to conduct low-/mid-band 5G trials. However, the latest issuance is the first time the authority gave green light to commercial layout.

Huawei, China's largest network equipment maker that has been all over the news lately, stated that it will "fully support Chinese operators to develop 5G" by virtue of its all-round end-to-end advanced 5G capability.

Meanwhile, Huawei also said it has been fully prepared to welcome 5G commercial usage era in China.