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China’s telecoms will spend a combined 2.8 trillion yuan (US $411 billion) on building out 5G mobile networks from 2020 to 2030, according to a new 5G study from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

The figures in the study, as reported by the South China Morning Post, forecast China to become the biggest 5G market by subscribers in the next decade; China’s 5G subscriber count is expected to reach 588 million by 2022, according to an estimate from equity firm Jefferies. China is currently the largest 4G market, with 843.7 million 4G subscribers as of April 2017.

Here are three key takeaways from the report:

• 5G will spur new revenue for telecom and hardware makers. By 2030, China Mobile, Unicom, and China Telecom are expected to generate 7.9 trillion yuan in combined 5G-related revenue.
• Legacy and emerging mobile services and technologies alike will see more adoption due to 5G speeds. Internet companies and application developers are expected to generate 10.7 trillion yuan in total 5G-related revenue from 2020 to 2030. 5G will power nascent tech like augmented and virtual reality (VR), connected homes, M2M communications, and large-scale operations of IoT devices.
• The 5G market is expected to have such a significant impact on the Chinese economy that it could account for 3.2% of Mainland China’s entire GDP in 2025, generate 8 million jobs, and add 2.9 trillion yuan in economic value by 2030. As demand for 5G services heightens, there will be a boom in new companies, employment opportunities, and sales of equipment.

China’s 5G focus will play a big role domestically in terms of driving mobile usage. 5G’s ability to transmit data roughly 10 times faster than 4G, the current standard, according to Ericsson’s annual Mobility Report, will enable consumers to conduct more standard mobile activities and also add in data-heavy ones, like smartphone-based VR streaming and using artificial intelligence assistants.

But perhaps more importantly, China’s ambitious pursuit of pervasive 5G connectivity could help advance global efforts. While China diverted from global network norms in its 3G standard, it's now working on developing 5G standards with global compatibility in mind, according to a report from FierceWireless. 5G is expected to hit the consumer market sometime around 2020, according to the GSMA.

Peter Newman, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has conducted an exclusive study with in-depth research into the field and created a detailed report on the IoT that:

• Provides a primer on the basics of the IoT ecosystem
• Offers forecasts for the IoT moving forward and highlights areas of interest in the coming years
• Looks at who is and is not adopting the IoT, and why
• Highlights drivers and challenges facing companies implementing IoT solutions

 

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http://www.businessinsider.com/china-plans-to-lead-5g-network-adoption-by-2030-2017-6

 

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Law needs to intervene over Apple’s alleged monopoly

Apple's policy of creaming off 30 percent of tip revenue collected on local apps has caused wide public dissatisfaction. Tips are voluntarily offered by app users to content creators, be they individuals or a team, as a reward for their work. Apple now designates tipping as in-app purchases, but this is just dissembling on their part.

WeChat, a social media app widely used in China, declined to comply with Apple's policy and has disabled the tipping function on versions run on iOS. Some small platforms such as online content aggregation app Toutiao and question-and-answer website Zhihu have compromised. Apple will peel off 3 to 3.2 yuan from a tip of 10 yuan, a percentage which is startling.

It must be pointed out that Apple's decision to wring more profits from tip revenue is unacceptable to the majority of Chinese people. It is an act of bullying similar to robbery. If Apple insists on this practice, regardless of how much revenue it grasps from it, the image of the company in the Chinese market will be seriously damaged, and this will harm its development in China in the long-run.

Chinese domestic brands are seeking a bigger market share. Four domestic smartphone companies ranked among the top five by shipments in China in the first quarter of 2017. Apple only placed fourth in the ranking, the sole foreign brand. Had it not been for its unique operating system that helped sustain users, the situation might be even worse. At this juncture, Apple should strive to consolidate its status in the Chinese market through innovations rather than taking radical approaches.

Apple may violate the antitrust principle by imposing a forced charge that takes advantage of its market share and operating system. The law should intervene at this point.

Surprisingly, no Chinese companies filed a lawsuit against Apple over the tipping dispute. Chinese market supervision authorities have so far remained silent. We expect they will conduct an investigation and get involved soon.

It's obvious that the rights and interests of Apple users have been infringed. Non-Apple users can freely tip authors of their favorite articles, but those who use iPhones have to hand over 30 percent of the tip to Apple, leaving only 70 percent for the authors. In view of the unfair conditions Apple forcibly imposed on them, they as individual users are unable to confront the company. Kidnapped by Apple's unique operating system, it is difficult to make other choices.

Apple has violated the basic principles of fair competition and the authorities should conduct an anti-trust investigation into it.

There is no need to incorporate nationalism into the matter. If a company is suspected of using monopolistic practices to maximize profits, the market supervision department and the law should intervene. At a time when the rule of law is comprehensively advancing, Chinese society should become more accustomed to resorting to law when public interests have been violated.

Apple staff in China ‘sold personal data’

Chinese authorities said that they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple Inc employees selling personal data of computer and phone users.

A total of 22 people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals' privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by police in East China's Zhejiang Province.

Of the 22 suspects, 20 were Apple employees who allegedly used the company's internal computer system to gather users' names, phone numbers, Apple IDs and other data, which they sold as part of a scam worth more than 50 million yuan ($7.36 million).

The statement did not specify whether the data belonged to Chinese or foreign Apple customers.

45,000 apps removed from iOS App Store in Chinese mainland over 10 days

 

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ZTE wins 75 percent share of True's Beyond-100G backbone WDM Network project in Thailand

23 June 2017, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced it has won the bid for three networks in True's beyond-100G backbone wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network project in Thailand, gaining around 75 percent project share. The backbone transmission networks will enable True to provide valuable functions such as ultra-large capacity optical transport network (OTN) cross-connection, intelligent scheduling of optical networks, and ultra-long-distance transmission, helping True adapt to future service development and follow-up evolution.

ZTE is committed to helping True create a large-capacity, high-performance and high-stability backbone dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network. The new 100G/400G backbone transmission WDM network will greatly improve True's network capacity and effectively promote its service growth in 3G/ long term evolution (LTE), fixed network, broadband and other fields.

In this project, ZTE has adopted the 100G and beyond-100G WASON solution, industry-leading PM-QPSK/PM-16QAM modulation and coherent reception technology, and the industry-leading digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm and third-generation soft decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) to achieve transmission without electronic relays in the entire network, greatly reducing the cost of the network. The software-defined optical networking (SDON) technology makes optical network transmission more intelligent, effectively shortens the service deployment time, and greatly improves the efficiency of network scheduling. In addition, this project supports the industry-leading embedded optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) solution, can achieve comprehensive and real-time monitoring of the fibre parameters and fault points in the existing network, greatly improving network maintainability and reducing troubleshooting time. This project also provides the colourless directionless contationless flexgrid, reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (CDCF ROADM) function, which can fully meet the operator's requirements for the transparent transmission, flexible scheduling, aggregation, management, and monitoring of massive data services.

With more than 300 network application cases and a total length of 300,000 km network fibre, ZTE maintains an industry-leading position in the field of 100 Gbps/beyond-100G innovative technologies. According to a 2016 annual report released by OVUM, an internationally renowned consulting firm, ZTE ranks second for its share in the optical network market.

http://www.zte.com.cn/global/about/press-center/news/201706ma/0623ma1

 

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China Is Driving To 5G And IoT Through Global Collaboration
Moor Insights and Strategy , Contributor
Jun 20, 2017 @ 09:30 AM
Post written by John Fruehe
John Fruehe is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior enterprise analyst for networking and servers

Telecoms and cloud service providers are gearing up for two of the largest functional changes in decades: The Internet of Things (IoT) which is happening now and 5G which is on the horizon. Both will require substantial investments in capital and operations for today’s networks to be competitive and thrive in this connected future. No single vendor can deliver the full stack, and proprietary technologies will not keep pace with these future needs. This transformation will be delivered in virtualized (not physical) technologies, open source and multivendor, relying on significant integration work across many in the industry to be successful. Chinese players like China Mobile , Huawei and ZTE are emerging as leaders in this space, through something not traditionally expected from the region: global collaboration.

OPNFV is an initiative from the Linux Foundation that is working on the interoperability and integration of these virtual components, referred to as virtual network functions (VNFs), into a platform called network function virtualization (NFV). This platform enables carriers to move from physical devices and appliances towards virtual functions that are software-based, because hardware-based solutions will never scale to meet demands. The network needs to change, especially in light of technologies like 5G and IoT that require new ways of working.

This year’s OPNFV Summit was held in Beijing, China, a choice that could have limited attendance from outside of China, but the representation, while China strong, did cover the globe. At the event, I hosted a panel with representatives from NTT DoCoMo (Japan), China Telecom, China Mobile and Orange (France). These carriers all brought a diversity of experience, engagement and progress, as they are all in different stages of their transition into the virtual world. Interestingly, the collaboration across these different companies works, because everyone seems to be facing the same challenge: building new networks based on tools that might not exist yet while still running their current business—akin to building an airplane in mid-flight. OPNFV enables them to drive a common set of requirements back to vendors, ensuring they will have the tools and technologies to make this work.

I spoke with Heather Kirksey, OPNFV director, who was supportive of China and its ability to collaborate globally. “The choice for China was intentional, we are a global organization. This is not a regional China event, it is our global event.” Kirksey pointed out that while travel expense, time and visas make it difficult to hold the event here, these are the same challenges that the Chinese face with US or European events. While it may be harder and more expensive for her organization, it pays dividends in bringing more collaboration and diversity, which are key to OPNFV success.

Collaboration between carriers is typically easier because regulation and geographic challenges limit conflict, but for equipment companies, the global market makes it more difficult for them to work with competitors. Yet the working group representation sees competitors like Ericsson and Huawei both working to achieve the same project goals. Inclusion and diversity were strong themes of the event.

As 5G changes the carrier landscape, we’ll see some key technologies like NFV act as the underpinning for the transition. Open source software—and now even open source hardware—will be critical components. Open source is all about public debate, and unlike previous transitions that were driven more by standards bodies driving consensus, the next generation of communications technology will be driven more by open source organizations like OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, DPDK, FD.io, ONOS and ONAP as the underpinnings of 5G will be virtual and very cloud-centric. Collaboration has become the preferred mechanism for driving change, and China is stepping up as a major player in this movement, overcoming many of the language and cultural barriers that stymied sharing in the past.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorin...ot-through-global-collaboration/#7db9c6ce8aa0

 

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7 Chinese mainland tech firms included in 50 Smartest Companies list
By Wang Xueying
2017-06-27 23:01 GMT+8

MIT Technology Review on Tuesday released its list of 50 Smartest Companies. Seven tech companies from the Chinese mainland have been included in the 2017 list, namely iFlytek (No. 6), Tencent (No. 8), Face++ (No. 11), DJI (No. 25), Alibaba (No. 41), Ant Financial (No. 49) and Baidu (No. 50).

Every year, MIT Technology Review identifies 50 companies, which performed aggressively by combining advanced technologies and business savvy. Considered the dominant companies of the future, firms on the list previously included tech giants such as IBM and Amazon, but some are startups full of ambition, such as SpaceX and Tesla. The list aims to encourage technologically innovative companies to promote their successful business models all over the world.

Source: MIT Technology Review.

It's 2017 and artificial intelligence technology factors into placement on the list. As such, firms that have made great advances in emerging technology fields like deep learning, voice and facial recognition, as well as DNA sequencing, have dominated the list.

Looking at Chinese mainland’s contribution to the list, it marks iFlytek’s first time to be included. As an IT firm, iFlytek has developed its own voice recognition software, dubbed “Chinese Siri”, and has introduced more than ten voice-based mobile products in China. In MIT Technology Review’s opinion, this company “already dominates China’s voice recognition market and is now expanding into voice-activated command systems for cars, homes, robots, and schools.”

New technology is changing people‘s daily lives. /VCG Photo

Another newcomer from China this year is Face++, a company which provides facial recognition services. At present, popular Chinese online payment platform, Alipay, uses Face++’s core technology to allow users to log in and pay by using their faces as identification. Meanwhile, ride-sharing firm Didi Chuxing, and popular photographing app maker Meitu, both use Face++’s services.

No-cash payment has become very popular in Chinese mainland. /VCG Photo

Over the past several years, Chinese companies, especially tech giants, have been playing a more important role in global economic development. To some degree, it represents the rise of China’s economy, as well as its international influence in the world.

 

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7 Chinese mainland tech firms included in 50 Smartest Companies list

2017-06-28 13:18

CGTN Editor: Li Yan

MIT Technology Review on Tuesday released its list of 50 Smartest Companies. Seven tech companies from the Chinese mainland have been included in the 2017 list, namely iFlytek (No. 6), Tencent (No. 8), Face++ (No. 11), DJI (No. 25), Alibaba (No. 41), Ant Financial (No. 49) and Baidu (No. 50).

Every year, MIT Technology Review identifies 50 companies, which performed aggressively by combining advanced technologies and business savvy. Considered the dominant companies of the future, firms on the list previously included tech giants such as IBM and Amazon, but some are startups full of ambition, such as SpaceX and Tesla. The list aims to encourage technologically innovative companies to promote their successful business models all over the world.

It's 2017 and artificial intelligence technology factors into placement on the list. As such, firms that have made great advances in emerging technology fields like deep learning, voice and facial recognition, as well as DNA sequencing, have dominated the list.

Looking at Chinese mainland's contribution to the list, it marks iFlytek's first time to be included. As an IT firm, iFlytek has developed its own voice recognition software, dubbed "Chinese Siri", and has introduced more than ten voice-based mobile products in China. In MIT Technology Review's opinion, this company "already dominates China's voice recognition market and is now expanding into voice-activated command systems for cars, homes, robots, and schools."

Another newcomer from China this year is Face++, a company which provides facial recognition services. At present, popular Chinese online payment platform, Alipay, uses Face++'s core technology to allow users to log in and pay by using their faces as identification. Meanwhile, ride-sharing firm Didi Chuxing, and popular photographing app maker Meitu, both use Face++'s services.

Over the past several years, Chinese companies, especially tech giants, have been playing a more important role in global economic development. To some degree, it represents the rise of China's economy, as well as its international influence in the world.

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/06-28/263272.shtml

 

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China's ZTE Corp to set up 5G tech hub in Italy

2017-06-30 09:18

Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

China's ZTE Corp will make Italy its European hub for the development of 5G wireless technology, the company confirmed on Thursday.

Fifth-generation or 5G is the next mobile wireless standard, and will make telecoms faster and more powerful. The company announced its plans in a meeting with Lombardy regional officials in Milan.

ZTE intends to open 13 new research & development centres in Italy, said its CEO for Western Europe, Hu Kun. "The 5G network will be ready by next year," said Hu who also serves as president of ZTE Italy, adding "The pre-5G phase is in full swing."

5G development at the Italy tech hub "will be the most important experimentation, at the European level, in the telecoms field," Hu told the Italian Institute for Asia and the Mediterranean (IsiameD), one of its digital technology partners in Italy, in an interview posted on the IsiameD website.

Founded in 1985, ZTE operates across 140 countries and employs over 30,000 researchers in 18 R&D centers, according to its corporate website.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/06-30/263539.shtml

 

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Chinese telecom giants to pilot 5G technology

2017-07-05 13:52

Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

China's three major telecom operators will pilot 5G technology in several cities during the second half of this year, the Economic Information Daily reported Wednesday.

The pilot projects will be carried out in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Ningbo, the Xinhua-run newspaper said, citing sources from the telecom giants, namely China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom.

The companies will test the 5G technology, build base stations, and launch applications such as autonomous driving, smart cities, and smart homes based on the network, according to the report.

The pilot programs will be expanded to another 10 or more cities in provinces including Jiangxi, Hainan, Shanxi, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Hebei in the future, it said.

The moves will help China play a leading role in developing the global 5G standard and pave the way for commercialization and further development of the technology, the newspaper said.

China plans to commercialize 5G mobile networks, which provide much faster connectivity and lower energy consumption, as early as 2020.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/07-05/264146.shtml

 

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In China 5G trials, ZTE hits massive 19 Gbps network speeds
In recent 5G speed tests, telecom provider ZTE was able to set a new industry record in terms of network throughput, exceeding 19 Gbps.

By Conner Forrest | July 5, 2017, 5:56 AM PST

In Chinese 5G network trials, international telecom provider ZTE Corporation set a new industry record when it exceeded a throughput of 19 Gbps, the company announced in a Monday press release. In a separate test, the firm was also able to achieve a low latency of 0.416 ms.

In short, the 5G future is here, and it's fast.

In total, ZTE conducted seven separate tests as part of the second phase of China's National 5G tests, the release said. The tests were conducted in Huairou, Beijing.

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One of the most prominent tests was the eMBB (enhanced mobile broadband) test, conducted at sub-6Ghz. In the test, ZTE was able to offer 28 streams to users through the 3.5 GHz pre-commercial base station, the release said, ultimately achieving the new 19+ Gbps record. In the release, ZTE said this could be used to help connect some of the densely-populated urban areas in China.

In a separate test, trialing eMBB on high-frequency millimeter waves, ZTE surpassed 13 Gbps using a 26GHz base station. ZTE noted that tests like this will help the eventual commercialization of high-frequency technologies in mobile, according to the release.

Low latency was also on the agenda for testing. In an ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (uRLLC) test, the firm achieved a latency of 0.416 ms. ZTE's proprietary chips were used in the test to achieve such latency, the press release said.

An additional trial had implications for the future of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption as well. Using MUSA (multi-user shared access) technology, ZTE achieved performance of 90 million connections/MHz/hour/km2, the release said.


ZTE also used network slicing to create a unified network to support multiple interfaces and applications, such as those mentioned above. This would allow for more flexible service configuration, and the tests on this platform managed a peak rate of 15 Gbps, along with latency lower than 0.416 ms, and 90 million connections/MHz/hour/km2 at the same time, the release said.

The trials here were part of China's growing effort to deploy 5G by 2020. ZTE, a Chinese company, currently has 3,000 employees dedicated to 5G research and development, and is planning to double the money it is investing in the technology.

The 3 big takeaways for TechRepublic readers

1. In recent 5G network trials, ZTE achieved 19 Gbps network throughput and 0.416 ms of latency.
2. The seven tests will have an impact of 5G technologies for mobile connectivity in densely-populated areas, as well as improving IoT connectivity.
3. ZTE is doubling its investment in 5G R&D, as China sets it sights on a 5G deployment by 2020.

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http://www.techrepublic.com/article/in-china-5g-trials-zte-hits-massive-19-gbps-network-speeds/

 

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Phase 2 of China’s National 5G tests were conducted in Huairou in Beijing. ZTE completed tests for continuous wide coverage, eMBB (enhanced mobile broadband) at sub-6Ghz, eMBB at millimeter-wave frequencies, uRLLC (ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications), eMTC (massive Machine Type Communications), in addition to two hybrid scenarios, achieving multiple breakthroughs:

eMBB@Sub6GHz Test: New Record for the Peak Value, with Cell Throughput Exceeding 19 Gbps

In the eMBB@Sub6GHz test scenario, ZTE provided 28 streams for multiple users by using the 3.5 GHz pre-commercial base station, with a peak cell throughput higher than 19 Gbps, a new industry record. This data rate is higher than the ITU-defined value (10 Gbps). ZTE’s solution overcomes the limitations of standard interfaces, and provides more spatial division streams than the standard and common value (16 streams) in the industry. This technology is especially suitable for China’s densely-populated urban areas, highlighting ZTE’s technology leadership in 5G eMBB scenarios.

Industry-first eMBB@mmWave Test: Single-User Rate Exceeding 13 Gbps

ZTE was the first to use the 26GHz base station in the high-frequency eMBB test scenario, and achieved a 4-stream rate of 13 Gbps even when a single test terminal supported a bandwidth of less than 1 GHz. This rate is higher than that defined by ITU (10 Gbps), and is a major step forward in the development and commercialization of high-frequency mobile communications.

mMTC Scenario: Massive Capacity of 90 Million Connections/MHz/hour/km2

In the mMTC test scenario, ZTE increased the overload rate of connected terminals by 600 percent by using the innovative MUSA (multi-user shared access) technology, and verified an equivalent massive IoT access performance of 90 million connections/MHz/hour/km2, which is 90 times the value (1 million connections/square kilometers) currently defined by ITU. mMTC is one of the three key scenarios defined in 3GPP standards. ZTE plays a leading role in the NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access) Working Group, serving to accelerate industry standardization of 5G globally.

uRLLC Scenario: Ultra-Low Latency of 0.416 ms

In the uRLLC test scenario, ZTE achieved an ultra-low latency of 0.416 ms based on a unified test platform, lower than the ITU-defined 1 ms. The system is based on ZTE’s self-developed chipsets, which is self-adaptable in eMBB and uRLLC scenarios. The results show ZTE’s leadership in the implementation of key 5G uRLLC technologies and prototypes, which is a key step for 5G commercialization in the future.

ZTE is committed to driving the commercialization of 5G products, laying a solid foundation for commercial 5G deployment in China by 2020.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/...gbps-and-is-on-track-for-2020-deployment.html

 

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I have 40 mbps connection and its a overkill for my usage, i dont know what to do with such speeds.
Wonder what use is 19 gbps.

 

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I have 40 mbps connection and its a overkill for my usage, i dont know what to do with such speeds.
Wonder what use is 19 gbps.

Virtual reality or Internet of Things.

https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-not-ju...ts-you-do-vr-self-driving-cars-drones-remote/

 

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I have 40 mbps connection and its a overkill for my usage, i dont know what to do with such speeds.
Wonder what use is 19 gbps.

You can watch on 16K Stream how India will be taken over by Chinese Military.

 

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You can watch on 16K Stream how India will be taken over by Chinese Military.

Hmm
Meanwhile in 1080p I am watching how India thrashed Chinese plan of constructing road in Chinese territory itself while Chinese could do nothing more than blowing hot air on daily basis.