Winning 5G, Telecom and China Unicom decided to join forces
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account“Daily Economic News” (ID: nbdnews), author Liu Chunshan, editor Wei Guanhong, Li Jinghan, Du Hengfeng.
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In the 4G era, China Telecom and China Unicom are far behind China Mobile in terms of revenue and users, and they decided to join forces with China Telecom.
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On the evening of September 9, China Unicom announced that it will cooperate with China Telecom to build a 5G access network nationwide. Simultaneously. The ownership of both parties remains unchanged, and the brand and business operations remain independent.
According to China Unicom’s introduction, the two sides delineate regional and sub-district construction, and each is responsible for the work related to the construction of 5G networks within the designated area, who builds, who invests, who maintains, and who bears the network operation costs. The 5G network co-construction and sharing adopts the access network sharing mode, and the 5G frequency resources are shared. According to China Unicom’s previous calculations, this move is expected to save 200 billion yuan (total 400 billion yuan) in construction costs for the two operators.
In this regard, telecom industry analyst Fu Liang said: “boots landing, telecommunications, China Unicom partition to build a 5G access network, each built 5G core network.” It also said that 5G construction investment, Joint construction is also based on the present