The results of this centralized mining estimate that the purchase price of 5G single station is about 135,000 yuan to 161,200 yuan. According to the proportion of each manufacturer’s share and quotation estimates, the average purchase price of each 5G base station is about 160,000 yuan.
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The results of the highly anticipated “China Mobile 2020 5G Phase II Wireless Network Main Equipment Centralized Procurement” everyone knows the results.
According to the results of this centralized mining, the purchase price of 5G single station is about 135,000 yuan to 161,200 yuan. According to the proportion of each manufacturer’s share and quotation estimates, the average purchase price of each 5G base station is about 160,000 yuan.
What about the price of this 5G base station?
Let’s compare 4G base stations.
It is estimated that many people still vaguely remember that in 2013, during the initial stage of 4G LTE commercial use, China Mobile ’s bidding for TD-LTE (4G) equipment also attracted “wide attention.”
The TD-LTE centralized procurement involved 207,000 base stations and 550,000 carrier fans, with an investment of over 20 billion yuan.
The price quoted by the equipment manufacturer was between 33,500 yuan and 63,700 yuan per load fan.
According to three sectors per base station and one carrier per cell, the purchase price of each 4G base station is between 100,000 and 190,000 yuan. According to the proportion of each manufacturer’s share and quotation estimates, the average purchase price of each 4G base station at that time was less than 120,000 yuan.
That is to say, the unit price of 5G base stations is about 40,000 yuan higher than that of 4G.
Of course, as the scale of network deployment continues to expand and the cost of hardware and so on decreases, the price of base stations will also decrease. For example, taking the price quoted by a certain equipment manufacturer in 2016 as an example, the price of a 4G base station has dropped to about 80,000 yuan.
Therefore, although the price of 5G base stations is currently 40,000 yuan higher than that of 4G base stations, it is believed that they will decline in the future.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the 5G network is a huge and complex system. In addition to base stations, there are transmission, core network and other equipment. In addition to equipment purchase, the construction process also involves design, installation, optimization and other costs. These costs are added, how high is the average deployment cost of a 5G base station? Is it expensive?
According to the 2020 5G deployment plans of the three major operators, China Mobile plans to build 250,000 5G base stations in 2020, with 5G related investment of about 100 billion yuan; China Telecom and China Unicom also plan to build a total of 250,000 5G in 2020 Base station, 5G investment is about 45.3 billion yuan and 35 billion yuan respectively.
According to this plan, the average deployment cost of 5G base stations of the three major operators in China is between 320,000 and 400,000 yuan.
How expensive is this deployment?
5G has been in commercial use in South Korea for a year. Let ’s compare and compare.
China ’s three major operators have to build 500,000 5G base stations a year, while South Korea ’s three major operators only build more than 90,000 a year. China ’s operators have a much larger scale of procurement and lower unit prices. This is estimated to be One of the reasons why 5G deployment costs are lower than South Korea.