Real, digital businesses integrate with telecom By MA SI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-19 09:36 Share CLOSE Visitors observe a smart robot grasping a dice during a high-tech expo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Monday. [Photo by Liu Xu/For China Daily]
China s notable progress in telecommunications network infrastructure construction has laid down a sound foundation for the integration of digital and real economies, experts said.
The comments came after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday that China has to date built 819,000 5G base stations across the nation, accounting for about 70 percent of the world s total.
Moreover, within just two years after the nation kicked off the commercialization of 5G services, China now has 280 million 5G smartphone users, accounting for more than 80 percent of global 5G mobile subscribers.
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Why Kenya cannot afford to lag behind in 5G uptake
Thursday January 21 2021
Summary
Kenya’s largest telecommunication operator, Safaricom, recently suspended deployment of its highly anticipated new fifth-generation (5G) mobile network.
The action somewhat derailed the pace the country has set over the years in Africa’s technology sector that has earned it the title ‘Africa’s Silicon Savanna’.
The news came as a surprise to many given that the company has already completed testing and trials of the new network’s high-speed mobile connections.
Had it been implemented as planned, the project was poised to propel the country as the second in Africa to successfully roll out the 5G network, only after South Africa.