January 09, 2025

China Telecom's "Four Propositions" for Building a 5G Intelligent Ecosystem, and clarifying the path of 5G development

The golden autumn is happy. On September 13, the 10th Tianyi Intelligent Ecological Industry Summit Forum was held in Guangzhou. Yang Jie, Chairman of China Telecom, described the future development direction of China Telecom and put forward the "four points of China Telecom's proposal for building a 5G intelligent ecosystem." ", released the "Hello 5G" strategy, embraced the 5G era with a cordial, friendly and open mind, and shattered the industry’s long-standing doubts about the 5G era.

Hello 5G: Clarify the way of 5G development

Chairman Yang Jie said that 5G is not only an important part of the strategy of building a network power, digital China, and smart society, but also an inevitable choice for China Telecom to deepen its transformation and upgrading. During this Smart Ecological Expo, China Telecom officially launched the Hello 5G Action Plan, which aims to use the development of 5G to further promote network intelligence, business ecology, and operation intelligence, and is committed to building a 5G smart ecosystem and transforming and upgrading enterprises. Give new connotations.

Chairman Yang Jie affirmed the importance of the 5G era for social development, and China Telecom's deepening transformation will continue. In the past two years, unlimited packages have been launched on a large scale in the 4G era, and network tariffs have become lower and lower. There have been voices of doubt in the industry that operators will become channels. The business is forcing operators to transform. "Changes are common, and common is long." China Telecom has implemented the transformation 3.0 strategy for more than two years. Now it seems that the effect is remarkable. China Telecom is steadily moving towards the direction of smart operators. At the Tianyi Exhibition, Chairman Yang Jie once again clarified China Telecom's position as a comprehensive intelligent information service operator, firmed its transformation and upgrading strategy, and actively deployed and built a 5G ecosystem, giving new connotations to the "three modernizations and five circles".

In addition, the release of China Telecom's 5G strategy at this time is also in line with the development of the times. Facing the development of 5G, operators are crossing the river by feeling the stones, and achieving 5G leadership is not easy. Therefore, before the 5G standard is finalized, operators have not yet released a particularly detailed plan for 5G. With the freezing of standards in June 2018, the industry has taken action. Therefore, at this time, China Telecom has clarified that the 5G strategy is of epoch-making significance and vowed to seize the opportunity of the development of the times. At the exhibition, Chairman Yang Jie comprehensively explained China Telecom's 5G development strategy, which is a comprehensive and systematic strategy that clarifies the direction for China Telecom's 5G development in the future.

Four major propositions: refine the method of 5G transformation

China Telecom is actively deploying a 5G smart ecosystem, involving standards and technological innovation, 5G network construction, 5G services and enabling platforms, 5G application scenarios, and 5G terminal development. To this end, China Telecom puts forward the following "four-point proposition."

Proposal one, jointly promote the maturity of 5G standards.

China Telecom has been deeply involved in the formulation of 5G international standards, focusing on in-depth research on 5G services and business models, network intelligence, and network integration. It has successively led the formulation of multiple standards in international standards organizations such as ITU, ETSI, and 3GPP. China Telecom will always maintain close cooperation with industry chain partners and work with everyone to jointly promote the maturity of 5G standards.

It is understood that China Telecom is actively promoting 3GPP 5G standardization based on actual network and technical requirements, leading 23 5G-related projects in ITU/3GPP, submitting more than 300 manuscripts to U/3GPP, and applying for protection of more than 130 5G invention patents. In terms of domestic standards, China Telecom has submitted more than 200 IMT-2020 standard manuscripts, and led the completion of multiple domestic standard projects such as mobile network virtualization and full-dimensional multi-antenna technology in CCSA; as of 2017, it has taken the lead in major national science and technology projects 4 item. China Telecom has made important contributions to the promotion of 5G standards.

Proposal two, jointly build a 5G intelligent network.

China Telecom has proposed the "Three Clouds" 5G network architecture for the first time in the industry, which is composed of access cloud, control cloud and forwarding cloud. The access cloud realizes business access and flow absorption, the control cloud realizes centralized control of network functions and capability opening, and the forwarding cloud realizes high-speed forwarding and direct flow of traffic. The future 5G network is a new intelligent network with comprehensive cloudification and application integration. It is based on the NFV/SDN architecture and supports new features such as network slicing and edge computing. China Telecom will set up a 5G innovation center to do its best in 5G research and innovation; build 5G demonstration projects and carry out 17 city-scale trials; in accordance with the overall plan, accelerate various preparations and strive to achieve 5G commercial scale by 2020.

The key point is that China Telecom will set up a 5G innovation center. Innovation centers are generally used to incubate industrial chain cooperation and jointly build a 5G ecosystem. China Mobile established a 5G joint innovation center in February 2016, and China Unicom established a 5G joint innovation center in June 2018. Now, China Telecom, which is moving steadily, will also establish a joint innovation center. The establishment of a joint innovation center will help operators and vertical industries to sit down and study how to cooperate. Previously, there were various barriers between vertical industries and operators, and dialogue was difficult. Operators had their own R&D systems. Vertical industries did not understand the operating mechanism of operators. Therefore, a joint creation center was established so that both parties could understand each other’s language to better understand each other’s language. Dialogue, this will better fulfill the original intention of 5G to change society. In the previous communications era, the communications industry developed on its own. Now that the vertical industry is developing, it is indeed necessary to establish such a new organization.

Another focus is the 5G scale trials in 17 cities. China Telecom previously announced a 6+6 strategy for 5G pilot cities, and now it has expanded to 17 cities, but so far only 6 pilot cities have been disclosed-Xiong'an, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu, and Lanzhou. Now in these 6 cities, 5G base stations have basically been opened, with 6 to 8 stations in each city. Currently, the wireless networking capabilities and scheme verification are mainly in the 3.5GHz frequency band. The 5G new air interface test has been carried out first, and has now basically been completed. It is expected that the core network test will begin in November this year. China Telecom clearly supports the SA networking model, so the construction of a new core network is imperative.

Proposition three, jointly innovate 5G application models.

5G is application-oriented, and China Telecom will work with everyone to create new power, new models, and new heights for 5G applications. In terms of application cooperation, we will strengthen fixed-mobile convergence, cloud-network convergence, and cultivate new impetus for 5G applications. A 5G application innovation alliance will be established within this year, and a white paper on 5G application cooperation will be released, focusing on strengthening cooperation with industry benchmarking companies to effectively aggregate industry forces. In terms of application innovation, fully integrate and share with alliance members, and promote the development of 5G from connection to connection to realize the interconnection of everything; from content to application, more focus on consumption scenarios; from product to service, more focus on the provision of overall solutions, and then build New model of 5G application. In terms of application expansion, we will work with alliance members to create a series of enhanced mobile broadband applications, ultra-high-definition video and other general innovative applications, as well as vertical industry applications such as smart cities, to promote consumption upgrades and innovation Upgrading and industrial upgrading have promoted the development of 5G applications to a new level.

5G is committed to changing society, and this original intention has always remained the same. However, it is difficult to apply 5G at this stage of development. This is not the most different but particularly different from the previous communication era. Prior to this, the Institute of Information and Communications Technology launched the "5G Application Contest" and selected some very creative applications in the industry. However, it seems that these applications are not yet mature. How to better integrate with vertical industries, cooperate with large companies to form demonstration applications, and promote them to the entire industry is the primary problem to be solved at this stage. The 5G alliance to be established will better play the role of aggregating industry forces, and it is believed that it will better promote the development of 5G.

Proposal four: Prosper the 5G terminal industry together.

China Telecom will highlight the characteristics of "large bandwidth, large connections, and quasi real-time" to accelerate the diversification of 5G terminals. In the 5G era, China Telecom continues to adhere to 5G full Netcom and innovative pan-intelligence development strategies, and pays more attention to AI empowerment, experience improvement, protocol interoperability, and security enhancement. It provides the industry in chips/modules, radio frequency antennas, full Netcom terminals, and smart applications. And other fields to create a broader space. China Telecom will work with terminal chips, brand manufacturers, instrument manufacturers, etc. to establish a 5G terminal research and development alliance, release China Telecom's 5G terminal white paper 1.0, and start industry terminal research.

When looking forward to 5G ecological cooperation, Chairman Yang Jie pointed out that 5G will be user-oriented and supported by cutting-edge and emerging technological innovations, bringing new business forms and creating huge commercial value. China Telecom will continue to uphold an open mind and work with industry partners to carry out in-depth cooperation in business, channels, terminals, networks and capital levels, embrace the new era of intelligence, and create a new 5G ecology together, and win new values ​​in the future!

At present, there is another headache for 5G, which is the terminal. It will be commercialized in 2020. Without terminals, not only users will not be able to use 5G, but it is also a question of what operators use to test the performance of 5G networks. At this stage, equipment vendors and operators are striding fast, and the network construction has to expand to 17 cities, but there are no suitable terminals. The terminal under test is as big as a washing machine, which is too far from the shape of a mobile phone. Moreover, chips based on the 5G R15 standard have not yet been clearly developed, which makes operators extremely anxious. China Telecom has clarified the strategy and direction of the entire Netcom, and artificial intelligence is also a must for the terminal. Next, the industry chain enterprises will need to work overtime for research and development. China Telecom's establishment of a terminal research and development alliance can better promote the timely and effective dialogue between industry chain companies and develop 5G terminals quickly.

China Telecom's establishment of a full Netcom strategy also shows that China Telecom will not abandon every standard of the past communication era, but this also poses a problem for terminal enterprises. Each communication standard requires an antenna. Now it has six modes-TD-LTE, FDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, CDMA (EVDO, 2000), WCDMA, GSM, and Wi-Fi must be added in the future. 5G, there is also a millimeter wave system. Previously, some experts joked that there may be more antennas than screws on 5G terminals. It now appears that this statement is true.

China Telecom's "Four Propositions" for Building a 5G Intelligent Ecosystem, and clarifying the path of 5G development

In the past two years, the "ecological tree" bears fruit

Two years ago, in order to adapt to the development of the era of intelligence, China Telecom issued a transformation 3.0 strategy to expand integrated intelligent information services through network intelligence, business ecology, and operation intelligence. Now it seems to be fruitful.

In the past two years, network intelligence has advanced in an orderly manner. In 2016, China Telecom launched the CTNet 2025 network reconfiguration plan to promote the intelligent evolution of the network. At present, China Telecom's "three high-quality networks" such as the mobile 4G network, optical fiber broadband network and the Internet of Things have basically been completed. At the same time, staged results have been achieved in the introduction of new technologies such as SDN, NFV, and cloud-network integration to promote network reconfiguration. For example, the deployment of SDN in the main cloud resource pool has shortened the network configuration cycle in the resource pool from weeks to minutes. .

In the past two years, business ecologicalization has achieved remarkable results. China Telecom has always advocated the development concept of "sharing, co-creating, and co-prosperity", and the five major business ecosystems have achieved gratifying results. The data shows that the scale of smart connection (mobile + broadband + fixed line) users has exceeded 570 million, the scale of smart home users has exceeded 110 million, the average monthly active users of Internet finance have reached 38 million, and the scale of DICT services for various government and enterprise customers has reached 2,300. Million, the scale of IoT users exceeds 80 million.

In the past two years, the foundation of intelligent operation has been consolidated. China Telecom's enterprise middle-station architecture has been initially completed. Currently, the number of encapsulated APIs reaches 650, with an average of nearly 200 million calls per day. The enterprise middle-station internally assisted the "Four Essences" applications such as precise management, precision marketing, fine service, and lean network operations, which effectively improved the company's operational capabilities; external cooperation has achieved one point of access, and it has been docked with companies including Alibaba, Tencent, etc. There are more than 100 partners and more than 220 cooperation platforms to provide customers with a variety of intelligent applications.

In the past two years, ecological cooperation has been in-depth and extensive. Today, there are 545 members of the Terminal Industry Alliance, the cooperation rate of strong social channels has exceeded 50%, the Smart Home Industry Alliance has nearly 300 members, and Yipay has more than 6.5 million cooperative merchants. DICT's cloud application market has introduced more than 50 cooperations. Partners, there are 350 members of Tianyi IoT Industry Alliance. At the same time, an investment system of "three fund platforms + three direct investment platforms" has been established, and capital cooperation has been actively carried out.

With the strong support of various industry alliances and industry partners, China Telecom's "ecological tree" is becoming more and more prosperous and fruitful.

New situation and new responsibility

Looking to the future, Chairman Yang Jie said that there is a lot to be done in the cyberspace industry. The cybersecurity and informatization industry represents new productivity and new development directions. In particular, the booming digital economy provides a golden opportunity for the development of the information and communication industry, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, and edge computing. The rapid development of information technologies such as, smart home, Internet of Things, 5G (ABCDEHI5G), etc. has provided a source of impetus for industrial upgrading.

Chairman Yang Jie has great confidence in the development of the cybersecurity and informatization industry, and hopes that the entire industry will strengthen its confidence and pass the painful period of transformation at this stage. With so many new technology blessings, I believe that my country's scientific and technological strength will make great strides in the future. These new technologies will be an important pillar to enhance my country's scientific and technological productivity. The network information industry in the 5G era has great potential.

As a state-owned enterprise, China Telecom has always insisted on fulfilling its responsibility as a state-owned enterprise. For so many years, it has been actively engaged in infrastructure construction in impoverished areas and fulfilled its responsibilities as a state-owned enterprise. Safeguards, bearers of network information, promoters of the development of informatization integration, and participants in the integration of military and civilian cybersecurity and informatization (that is, the responsibility of the "five").

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