What is 5G? And why China is racing to become the global leader in this technology

China wants to become a leader in 5G technology and make the service commercially available by 2020. Being the first in the world to have nationwide 5G is one of the priorities in Beijing’s ambitious Made in China 2025 strategy.

[stevenhou]

China has the most of 4G base stations in the world, they will have the first 5G network definitely.

[deminada]

China will succeed. Her time to lead in technology.

[ryanxu]

When everything come to China, the background musical become unfriendly

[fzh]

I would love to troll my family during Halloween using a 5 g enabled robotic "ghost" instead of wearing a costume and charge at them.

[loralieborres]

Can't wait to Buy Super computers at my home

[jal]

The current president and the previous two presidents in China all have engineering background. President Xi studied chemical engineering. President Hu studied civil engineering. And president Jiang studied electronic engineering. Of course they focus more in technology development in China .

[marc-andrelachapelle]

How it can be a better performance for streaming game..latency of 300 will still be a latency of 300...

[googleisacruelmistress]

Oh I hear we in Latvia will be getting that in 2019 =D
(most of the towers are already built and functioning so we could have it today if the data carriers felt like it but since there are fairly few phones that can actually use it and if they did that they'd take nothing but losses so they are holding off on the lunch till next year when it's projected to be financially opportune)

[satriaamiluhur]

While i welcome the 5G technology, I'd rather have 4G connection that don't lag because in my place 4G often feels like 3G.

[CTOInformation]

Chinese huge market is large enough for Chinas 5g tech to make a profit, plus all the rest of the developing countries market. the developed countries market is only a small pie.

[huckwalton]

Can’t wait for autonomous cars to stop hitting everybody. Haha.

[ningboflyer]

Largest 'Intranet' as well...

[metin]

I heard China was doing 6g stuff like this
I'm sure USA has something they've been working on besides g technologies and stuff

[xxxtion]

You forgot the Chinese social media is outraged part we so loved in scmp videos

[Zerpentsa]

US 5G without Huawei and ZTE is really 4G boosted by 10-20%

[markbr]

In the pursuit of being number one and profit we know comes a ruthless streak of selfishness and destruction. History tells us that. I wish these companies will be more honest about the health and social impact of these grand technologies.

[ethanmellor]

Shenzhen will take the lead in piloting commercial 5G networks this year with a total of 1, 955 5G base stations expected to be built and 851, 000 new users to be connected with fiber Internet with a speed of 100Mbps or higher, according to a report in the eyeshenzhen.com/
EyeShenzhen is Shenzhen’s (a first-tier city from China) first English-language portal. It is run by Shenzhen Daily, Shenzhen’s only English-language newspaper.

[libzbond]

There is a Karen who thinks 5G released CoVid19

[googleisacruelmistress]

Wait I don't get it over at Latvia we could already launch nation wide 5G right now, like most of the towers are built and everything we're just holding up till 2019 for financial reasons, are you telling me that china seriously doesn't yet have that available... lol

[piggybanks]

Haha to all my 90s baby's do yall remember when arcade was the ish.. Nd now look vr is looking quite similar. I can only imagine what the future will hold in the next 26 years. I'll probably be saying something like hey remember when we used a weird space helmet for vr? Well now we are actually in the game