News Analysis Robert Clark 1/27/2021
China Mobile will resell 5G capacity and provide network management and backhaul to China Broadcast Network (CBN) under a ten-year agreement between China s biggest and smallest operators.
China Mobile announced Tuesday evening that the two had agreed to jointly build and share a national 5G network using CBN s 700MHz spectrum.
They will share the cost of construction equally, but China Mobile will provide network operations and management on a commercial basis and will resell capacity on its existing 2.6GHz network.
For the first 12 months of the partnership China Mobile will also sell access to its 2G and 4G networks.