The three major domestic operators have not announced the official closing time of the 2G network, but the closure of the 2G network was put on the agenda as early as 20 16 12.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Reply on Agreeing to China United Communications Group Co., Ltd. to adjust some frequencies for LTE networking. China Unicom is allowed to use 2G and 3G spectrum resources for 4G network, and China Unicom's 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2 100MHz are adjusted for 4G network, allowing national deployment. Therefore, China Unicom is getting closer and closer to officially canceling the 2G network.
2018 On April 2 1 -25, the first "Digital China" construction summit was held in Fuzhou. The relevant person in charge of China Unicom said in an interview with People's Daily that China Unicom has not taken any action to "close the 2G network" at present, and the existing 2G customers will not be affected. At the same time, China Unicom will open 300,000 NB-IoT base stations nationwide before the International Telecommunication Day in May this year.
The 5G scale networking technology has been verified in five cities, and the business verification has been started in 16 cities. Li Guangju, general manager of China Unicom's government and enterprise customer division, stressed that at this stage, China Unicom is only steadily and orderly promoting the frequency reduction of the original 2G network, and has not taken any action to "close the 2G network". Existing 2G customers, including terminal services of 2G internet of things, are not affected.
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According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of 20 18, the total number of mobile phones in China had reached 157 billion, including11700,000. In other words, there are 400 million 2G and 3G users in China. China Unicom also said earlier that frequency reduction is not a network shutdown, but a process of "slimming down" step by step.
In addition, as mentioned above, the network frequency reduction of the three major operators has a focus. As we all know, China Mobile still has a large number of 2G users, but now it is doing 3G network frequency reduction. According to the latest data released by China Mobile, by the end of 1, there were 927 million households in China Mobile, of which 7170,000 were 4G users. This means that China Mobile still has 2 1 10,000 2G and 3G users.
Xiang Ligang, an expert in communication industry, said that it is normal for old technology to quit. Why didn't 2GSM quit? Because the main function of GSM is to make phone calls. Today, many telephone services still use 2G networks. If you quit your cell phone, you can't make a phone call. "In the future, both 3G and 4G will gradually withdraw from the network, but it is difficult for 2G to withdraw from the network."
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