High, poor signal penetration, closer transmission distance, and higher base station density. At the same time, based on the particularity of the scenic scene, the base station with higher density cannot destroy the natural environment.
On October 31, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom released the 5G commercial package for the first time in the mobile phone business hall APP. The price positions are all between 128 and 599, and the traffic level is between 30GB and 300GB. A person from the operator told the Economic Observer Online that the three operators have consistently set the tariff standards and package system and the price/performance ratio of each package. The package traffic is less because the current 5G signal coverage is not yet comprehensive.
The above-mentioned person said that the 5G package and related policies have been in-house training since the end of October, and the price/performance ratio of the package is similar. For the traffic volume of the three packages, the person believes that the monthly traffic of 30GB is not high, because the current 5G signal coverage is not comprehensive, the user volume is not large, and the future is still based on 4G.
In theory, 5G requires several times the base station to reach the current 4G coverage level. The operator’s 5G plan is the country’s 150,000 5G base station. By contrast, according to the financial report, more than 5.5 million 4G base stations were built nationwide in the first half of this year. This means that 5G large-scale commercial has a distance.
For the 5G base station builder, “If you give me the opportunity, let me talk about the difficulties and challenges in the construction of this 5G base station, I can talk to you for three days and three nights.”
When this sentence is said, it has been more than a month since Xia Xiaomei was responsible for the 5G comprehensive settlement project of the Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Area.
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Deep into it again.
After a late night in August 2019, the scenic spot of Huanghelou in Wuhan, Hubei Province, fell into silence after a bustling view of the day.
A small construction worker, dragging heavy materials, stopped in the first floor of the Yellow Crane Tower and looked up.
He is from the China Railway Tower Hubei Branch and is one of the participants in the 5G coverage project of the Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Area. The colleague behind him is preparing him for the mezzanine equipment. The reason why he is selected is not related to his body shape.
This historic “first floor of the world” is a special shape. The incoming construction workers will not be careful, and will damage the cultural relics.
The above construction personThe staff flexed their bodies and carefully probed them. They found a small hole and breathed in. They kept a half-turned posture throughout the whole process. Only when they found a suitable support point, they immediately plugged the line inside.
“Be careful!” Guo Xuan’s attention is highly concentrated, nervous, always reminding the construction workers on the top of the head, do not step on the precious wooden buildings of this 5A scenic spot.
Strong! The thin construction workers tightened their muscles and curled up in a space of only 20 cm, and sent them in a little bit.
The same heart as Guo Xuan, as well as Zhou Wen, and Xia Xiaomei.
The three people have a common identity and that is the project manager of the above 5G project. Xia Xiaomei is the only woman who appears at the construction site.
For her, Wuhan is the treasure of her communication career. “After graduating from this university, I entered China Mobile to do network testing and optimization, and later personally participated in base station maintenance, including now coming to the tower to participate in the construction of the base station.” Xia Xiaomei has been in the business for 15 years: “I am Help the brothers, the hardships you have eaten!”
The “bitterness” in her mouth includes the above-mentioned nighttime construction.
Because it can’t affect the daily operation of the scenic spot, all the construction processes of the 5G base station can’t see the light, and it can’t seize the normal tour time of the tourists. Night construction becomes an inevitable choice.
There is still hotness. As one of the four major furnace cities in China, Wuhan is still very hot.
Can I wait until the weather is cool before I start work? The project manager and the builders of the 5G base station construction are clear and can’t wait.
The scene during the May 1st period of 2019 emerges: rough statistics show that about 20,000 people are congested at the entrance to the south gate of the Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Area. The reason is that the mobile phone signal in the scenic area is not good, and tourists who purchase tickets online cannot complete it. Certified admission. The complaints from operators and scenic spots were temporarily smashed.
A few months later, the eleventh holiday is in sight, and the relevant person in charge of the operator and the scenic spot is full of vigour. The construction of the 5G base station is about to take place immediately.
Behind the line, it is the difficulty of setting up special technical scenes and the pressing work pressure during the construction period. Those who have resisted these burdens are the builders of the 5G base station project of China Tower.
Remove nighttime construction and shoulders. Xia Xiaomei remembered this deeply: “I tried to get through the antenna, and the battery is very heavy.”
In such a scenic spot, the mechanized engineering operation has lost its use and is limited by the special geographical environment of the scenic spot. Once a large engineering vehicle enters, it will easily crush the natural stones in the scenic spot, bringing irreparable natural environment. Economic losses.
Based on this, the 5G coverage project, which is related to the use of at least 20,000 mobile phones, has returned to the near-original operation state, giving up the assistance of mechanized engineering vehicles, and all of them are done by manpower.
“Have you seen it? This is our pure labor, dug out for 5 nights overnight.” Guo Xuan said with a finger at the base station hidden in the dense woods of the scenic spot.
“Hidden” is the key word for participating in the construction of the above 5G base station project. Since Xia Xiaomei entered the Hubei Tower, at least one-third of the 8111 5G base station construction projects that were handed over were quietly completed at night.
On October 15th, a person involved in the construction laughed and said: “We don’t look like a night singer?”
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Sweats like rain.
“Let’s take a look again, what are the problems in the design of this program?” Xia Xiaomei is in the hot sun in July. I can’t remember that this is the first time to climb the Yellow Crane Tower and discuss with the relevant person in charge of the scenic spot. A 5G comprehensive solution covering solution customized for the Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Area.
Xia Xiaomei never thought: “The difficulty will be so big. After all, when I started to make assumptions and signal tests, there have not been so many problems.”
In June 2019, Xia Xiaomei took advantage of the first draft of the 5G comprehensive solution coverage plan and rushed to the Yellow Crane Tower, thinking that there was no big difference from the previously designed scenes. To make her a little down, the first draft was hit back.
The reason is limited by the special technical scene of the scenic spot. For example, only considering the satisfaction of signal coverage, the towers will destroy the beauty of the scenic spots, but if you tend to consider the landscape, the goal of signal optimization can not be achieved.
Xia Xiaomei scratched her head and said: “This requires finding a very good balance.”
In order to find this balance point, the project manager responsible for the design of the project, as well as Xia Xiaomei, revised it over and over again, going back and forth between the company and the scenic spot, seeking a feasible operation path.
The group of 5G base station project builders never thought about it.Cut and be beaten.
This is what the Tower 5G base station builders have experienced not long ago. The reason is focused on “base station has radiation”, “not paying high-value property management fees can not build base stations” and so on.
In fact, back to the development era of 2G construction, the residents at that time, had beaten the drums and welcomed the base station builders, and helped the construction materials to enter the residential areas for free.
However, with the evolution of marketization, the competition in the industry is becoming more and more fierce. In the individual districts, bidding is entered, and the dramas of the highest bidders are staged from time to time.
At the threshold of speeding up and lowering fees, the revenue and profits of telecom companies are falling. The accumulation of domestic 5G and the financial strength in the future are worrying. Not everyone can understand these ideas from the 5G base station builders mentioned above.
The leader of the China Tower Communication Technology Research Institute, Dou Yu, understands.
Dou Yu believes that the future indoor will be the main application scenario of 5G, and the construction of 5G room will face two difficulties: One is large scale construction and high investment; the other is the difficulty of admission, coordination and implementation. Larger, not only has difficulties in the implementation of the project, but also has high entry costs and difficulty in entering the market.
In order to solve the problem of co-ordination and sharing, some 5G base station construction project managers inside the tower have developed a more and more skilled communication skills. For example, today’s people in the residential property maintenance department have a long talk and will coordinate with the owners tomorrow. The issue of rental fees.
In fact, in addition to their own efforts, 5G base station builders in a market-oriented competitive environment need more.
This includes support from local governments.
Taking Shandong as an example, the province has incorporated mobile communication infrastructure into mandatory planning, and made resource reservations in advance to provide support for pipelines and computer rooms for 5G base station construction.
Hubei Province also included 5G construction in key supervision and coordination. Enshi, Huangshi, Fuyang, Xianning, Xiaogan, Shiyan, Huanggang and other municipal governments issued a document to support the acceleration of 5G construction.
This kind of news made Xia Xiaomei happy, and also made Xia Xiaomei’s peers happy.
She did not really tell the reporter three days and three nights. Up to now, China Railway Tower Hubei Branch has supported three telecom operators to accumulate 122,000 new base stations, and the total number of base stations has reached 230,000. The number of communication base stations constructed over four years has exceeded the total construction volume of the industry over the past 30 years. The address sharing rate reached 89%, and the cumulative reduction of the tower construction was 30,000, which is equivalent to saving.