On June 6, 2019, China officially began the deployment of 5G.
At that time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G commercial licenses to China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Radio and Television.
Up to now, more than 5 years have passed, and the mainland has made remarkable achievements in 5G network construction.
According to the latest news, as of the end of May this year, the total number of 5G base stations built in the country has reached 3.837 million, accounting for 60% of the total number of 5G base stations in the world.
In addition, the number of 5G users in China has accounted for more than 50% of the country's mobile communication users.
(Source: IT House)
With the gradual maturity of 5G global deployment, the research and development of 6G technology has been put on the agenda, and it is regarded as the key to future network communication.
Predictably, 6G is expected to achieve higher data rates, lower latency, and wider connection densities than 5G.
Not only that, but it is also expected to achieve deep integration with AI and intelligent sensing.
In fact, at the 2024 Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Conference held last month, Huawei's Yu Chengdong shared his thoughts on 6G technology.
It said that the core idea of the 6G network will be "the integration of air, space and ground".
To put it simply, it is to integrate satellite communications, mobile phone communications and various means of communication in the future to build a communication network covering the world.
(Source: Huawei's official website)
In this way, 6G will be a new breakthrough in current communication technology.
In addition, according to the latest news, the global 6G standardization work has officially entered the substantive stage.
Also last month, the 105th Plenary Meeting of the 3GPP Business and Systems Technical Specification Group (SA) was held in Melbourne.
At this conference, 3GPP's first 6G standard project - 6G Scenario Use Cases and Requirements Research Project was approved.
It is worth mentioning that the previous global 3G, 4G, and 5G standards for mobile communications were all developed by the organization.
It is reported that the representative of China Mobile served as the rapporteur for the 6G demand project, which is the first time that a Chinese company has led the first standard work of a new generation of mobile communications.
(Source: IT House, the same below)
I have to say, it's still very exciting.
Of course, for the public, many users are most concerned about the personal experience, and the core is the speed problem.
Recently, there is finally new information on this point.
On October 16, interestingengineering, a technology media, published an article sharing some experimental data from the 6G network.
According to the report, the researchers achieved a wireless data transmission speed of 938Gbps in the 6G network experiment.
This data is more than 9,000 times the average transmission speed of current 5G mobile phones, and theoretically more than 20 movies can be downloaded in one second.
In addition, the tech media pcgamer also gave an analysis.
It means that if calculated at 938Gbps, the actual data transfer can reach 117.25GB/s.
The just-released Black Myth: Wukong is around 130GB in size, and if you calculate the speed above, it will only take users 1.1 seconds to download.
I have to say, this speed is really exaggerated!
Of course, this is only lab data, and when it comes to commercial use, the real rate may be discounted.
Furthermore, it can be used to build basic network facilities, and there may be a lot of room for development in industry, transportation, etc.
But for the general public, perhaps the most direct feeling is that the Internet speed is a little faster.
But then again, even if there is a one-hundredth rate of laboratory data for commercial use, that is exaggerated enough.
In addition, hardware such as hard disks is actually a factor that restricts network speed.
To put it another way, with current technology, the download speed in the future may even depend on the write speed of the hard drive.
Anyway, let's look forward to the next changes!
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