2024.0328

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introduction： 运营商面向消费者的新通话、云手机和裸眼3D等新业务受到欢迎，5G-A的新能力如确定性时延、精确定位和无源物联，将为运营商的B2B市场创造更多机会。

** Author| ** First Finance Fan Xuehan

On March 28th, China Mobile announced the official commercial use of 5G-Advanced. Gao Tongqing, deputy general manager of China Mobile, said, "Today, China Mobile, together with global industrial partners, officially released 5G-A 's business plan to further accelerate the construction of a new information infrastructure, accelerate the construction of a new information system, and release 5G unlimited possibilities." Gao Tongqing put forward an initiative at the press conference, suggesting that the industry should jointly do a good job in 5G-A technological innovation and occupy the technological commanding heights. In addition, he pointed out that in terms of network construction, China Mobile plans to join hands with supply chain manufacturers in 2024 to promote the application of 5G-An in more than 300 domestic cities in accordance with the principle of "moderately leading" construction, and start the deployment of the world's largest international commercial network. In terms of the popularity of terminals, China Mobile will join forces with terminal manufacturers and chip suppliers in 2024 to comprehensively promote the upgrading of the terminal industry. 5G-A, whose full name is 5G-Advanced, also known as 5.5G, is a key stage in the evolution from 5G to 6G. At present, the three major operators are competing for layout in terms of 5G-A. Li Qiang, general manager of China Mobile Planning Department, said at the World Mobile Communications Congress 2024 that 2024 is the first year of 5G-A for commercial use. China Mobile will start to build 5G-A business model in 2024, improve 5G-An infrastructure, promote 5G-An application scenarios, strengthen 5G-An industry ecology, and strive to achieve full commercial use of 5G-A by the end of 2026. China Unicom also announced Beijing 5G Capital innovation for 5G-An a few days ago. Beijing Unicom has completed the country's first 5G-A-scale networking demonstration, realizing high-and low-frequency cooperation and flexible deployment of outdoor-indoor 5G-An equipment. China Telecom, on the other hand, joined hands with China Unicom to complete the commercial verification of RedCap under the current network environment of Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangdong, Henan and Shanghai, and start the commercial process of 100 cities. According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of 2023, China had built a total of 3.377 million 5G base stations and 805 million 5G mobile phone users. Compared with 5G, 5G-A technology has faster transmission speed, lower delay, higher connection density, higher network capacity and better network security. With the completion of the 3GPP Release 18 standard specification, the landing of the 5G-A solution is imminent, and it will become a bridge to 6G. More than half of operators are expected to deploy 5G-A within a year after the release of the standard and launch a new round of investment in 2024, according to data provided by the GSMA think-tank team to China Finance. "2024 is the first year of 5G-A business, and with the development of cloud and AI technology, operators have great potential for business growth." Li Peng, senior vice president of Huawei and president of ICT sales and service, had previously commented on first Financial reporters. He pointed out that new services such as new consumer calls, cloud phones and naked-eye 3D are popular, and 5G-A 's new capabilities such as deterministic delay, precise positioning and passive IoT will create more opportunities for operators in the B2B market. **