China Telecom took the lead in officially opening the 5G base station. As early as 20 17, 10127, Shenzhen became the first pilot city in China Telecom to open a 5G base station. Subsequently, China Telecom successively built 5G demonstration projects in 17 city and carried out scale tests, with the goal of realizing 5G scale commercialization by 2020. Therefore, China Telecom took the lead in releasing its own 5G logo with the slogan: Empower the future.
The fifth generation mobile communication technology is the latest generation of cellular mobile communication technology, and it is also an extension after 4G, 3G and 2G systems. The performance goals of 5G are high data rate, low latency, energy saving, low cost, high system capacity and large-scale equipment connection. The first phase of the 5G specification in Release- 15 is to adapt to the early commercial deployment. The second phase of Release- 16 will be completed in April 2020 and submitted to the International Telecommunication Union as a candidate for IMT-2020 technology. ITU IMT-2020 requires a speed of up to 20 Gbit/s, which can realize wide channel bandwidth and large capacity MIMO.