5G: Crazy construction of base stations, but the utilization rate can't keep up, only 3% coverage?
At present, the number of 5G base stations in China is close to 720,000, and the number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 200 million. According to Qualcomm's forecast, all this cannot be said to be impossible. The only thing that runs counter to the rapid development of 5G is the utilization rate of 5G networks.
In the "Gigabit Optical Network Boosting New Growth in the Digital Economy" theme forum, some experts mentioned that the current utilization rate of 5G networks is less than 3%. This utilization rate can be described as "depression". The introduction of any technology, no matter how advanced, must be practical. Whether it is today's unmanned driving or various black technologies, it is based on people's needs to use it, and 5G should not be an exception. But is 5G really left out because of its low practicality?
Existence is reasonable. Nowadays, the application of 5G in many aspects shows that 5G has gradually penetrated into people's lives. For example, industries such as industrial automation, unmanned driving, VR/AR, smart home, mass Internet of Things, etc., 5G can be seen in these places. To give another more convincing example, we have been discussing the indoor positioning capabilities of 5G not long ago. With the development of the times, higher requirements are put forward for indoor positioning, and traditional indoor positioning technologies are constrained by coverage, accuracy, energy consumption, and cost. The emergence of 5G has realized the transition from outdoor macro coverage to indoor deep coverage, opening the door to indoor positioning.
Seeing this, you still have the heart to say that 5G is not practical? Admittedly, 5G is not practical, at least it is really not "close to the people" enough. Regardless of whether it is from a technical perspective, or from the most basic usage tariff. At present, whether it is construction or maintenance of 5G, the cost for operators is huge, which is doomed to its tariff will not be the same as that of 4G in the past. Furthermore, the current 4G can indeed meet the basic life needs of most people. Even if 4G is compared with 5G, 5G can allow you to download more than 5,000 ultra-definition movies per 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity, but for this demand, people do not Not very urgent.
Not to mention, there are no mature and large-scale applications of 5G networks.
Due to the exploding 5G utilization rate, operators have also forced their employees to brush traffic in order to complete the assessment indicators. It can be said to be very dumbfounding. But we must always be clear that even if the current utilization rate of 5G is not high, it is destined to be a future trend since its emergence. It's just that there are still many problems that 5G needs to solve. At least when a mature and large-scale application will appear in 5G, everyone is still very curious.
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