Netease technology news on May 20, the fourth issue of Netease technology "5g future Salon" was held online. The salon focused on "new opportunities for infrastructure construction", discussed the opportunities and challenges of 5g construction under the new infrastructure and other policies, and discussed the role of 5g in promoting intelligent transformation. Dr. Chen Ming, chief technology officer of Ericsson (China) Communications Co., Ltd., was invited to attend the meeting and made the theme sharing and interaction of 5g to the new.

In the process of sharing, Dr. Chen Ming proposed a set of data according to the research, that is, in terms of empowering the vertical industry, 5g can make the industrial Internet investment reach 700 billion US dollars by 2023, the edge computing connectivity reach 5 billion by 2025, the revenue of operators can increase by 35% by 2030, and 70% of the best service providers can provide , accurately meet the diversified needs, and enable the digital transformation of the industry.

"In October 2019, China's three major operators launched 5g commercial service. By March this year, China's 5g contracted users were 50 million. By the end of this year, I think it's no problem that China's users exceeded 100 million. Why is it developing so fast? Because 5g has terminals that support it since the first day of its commercial launch. "

Chen Ming disclosed that as early as 2005, they had begun to predict the global 5g development situation. Up to now, there are many realistic situations that are consistent with their predictions, but there are also new things beyond their prediction range. "At that time, we did not see the rise of a strong Chinese bat, or the rapid development of mobile payment and various streaming media social ways."

"From the survey, ordinary consumers are very interested in faster speed, the faster the better. They are willing to pay for this because they can get better services at competitive prices. We see that 20% of customers are willing to pay more premium, which is very important for the industry. In addition, 5g intelligent terminal is very important for the popularization of 5g technology. Up to now, we have seen that there are more than 95 terminals on sale in the world, and the entry price is about $300. Last year, this time, it was more than $1000. The maturity of 5g terminal technology has increased, and the price is declining. I believe that the user development will grow rapidly this year, and everyone will have a demand for replacement. " Chen Ming believes that from a global perspective, by 2025, the number of 5g end users will reach 2.8 billion and the traffic will exceed 60%.

Chen also shared an interpretation of this year's 5g consumer trend. In his view, this year, there will be five latest trends, namely: strong network becomes rigid demand, independent business shows vitality, workspace boundary disappears, telemedicine gets more attention, and virtual economy gradually becomes a trend.

In the process of promoting popularization, Chen Ming said that 5g brings great opportunities. He suggested that small and medium-sized enterprises should learn as much as possible about 5g technology, so as to have a deep understanding of the opportunities, to have innovative ideas, to combine their own product and business characteristics, and to realize 5g value implantation.

When answering netizens' questions about when 5g can achieve the ideal coverage to improve the use experience, Chen Ming told us that this is not a question worthy of concern and concern.

"In our view, operators can independently deploy the network according to the requirements of some special scenarios, which can be fully realized in terms of technical means. We call the network follow the industry, as long as there is business and demand, the network will go there. I believe that China's network construction is absolutely leading in the world, not only in terms of speed, but also in terms of the best spectrum. We need not worry about the network construction. China's Internet must be the best. "

Source: Netease Technology Report