2018年CRI Partnership and ecosystem essential to usher in 5G era

 

With the 5G era just around the corner in China, leading mobile and tech officials in China are suggesting more partnership¹ are going to be needed to help the new technology grow and develop. 

5G technology is one of the issues that has generated intense debates during the first day of this year's Summer Davos.

Ken² Hu, deputy chair and current CEO of Huawei Technologies, says 5G technology will allow tech companies like his to bring better services to their customers.

"Actually 5G is the technology which can provide us much faster speed, much lower latency, and much more connectivity than our existing 4G technology. So that would help us to build a much better user experience for our existing mobile service. That will help us to generate many new services," says Ken Hu.

However, Ken Hu admits there are still challenges, including the high development cost of 5G technology.

He says while research costs are starting to ease up, the technology is still going to require government support for things such as infrastucture development and other high-cost areas. 

"So we hope that the government can help to supply more sufficient spectrum³ resource to the market in a more reasonable mechanism⁴ with the lower cost. That will greatly help the industry to lower the end-to-end cost of the 5G service. And also we will welcome more supportive policies to help carriers to deploy⁵ more fiber⁶ optic underground with much lower cost."

A whitepaper from Huawei has suggested 5G technology is going to create significant advancements⁷ in areas such as virtual reality, smart cars, manufacturing, health care and smart cities.

Sihan Bo Chen is the head of Global Systems for the Mobile Communication Association in Greater China. 

She says other sectors⁸ outside the tech industry should also be investing in 5G technology.

"5G has a different character in it, which enables the network to be sliced and like tailor-made to different industries' needs. So it is not just operators' business. Let's all work together to think carefully and form more partnerships⁹ between operators, between vendors¹⁰, between our vertical¹¹ partners. It is happening, but we still need to encourage more," says Sihan Bo Chen.

Mikael Back, the head of business strategies for Erricson, says despite the challenges, 5G technology is where the future of communication is headed. 

"The mobile system has never been stronger, I would say. But the main challenge for us right now will be to bring other ecosystems¹² along, driven by the core industries, the manufacturing industry. A lot of industries, they have been bringing out their own very strong ecosystems over a long time."

An industry report is suggesting there will be 1.3 billion mobile 5G connections by 2025. 

China is forecast to become the world's largest 5G market, with 430 million 5G connections over the coming 7-years.

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

3 spectrum   

n.谱，光谱，频谱；范围，幅度，系列

参考例句：

• This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
• We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成，我们已了解不少。

4 mechanism   

n.机械装置；机构，结构

参考例句：

• The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
• The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。

5 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

6 fiber   

n.纤维，纤维质

参考例句：

• The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
• The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。

7 advancements   

n.（级别的）晋升( advancement的名词复数 )；前进；进展；促进

参考例句：

• Today, the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements. 当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Great advancements in drought prediction have been made in recent years. 近年来，人们对干旱灾害的预报研究取得了长足的进步。 来自互联网

8 sectors   

n.部门( sector的名词复数 )；领域；防御地区；扇形

参考例句：

• Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

10 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

11 vertical   

adj.垂直的，顶点的，纵向的；n.垂直物，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
• Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。

12 ecosystems   

n.生态系统( ecosystem的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There are highly sensitive and delicately balanced ecosystems in the forest. 森林里有高度敏感、灵敏平衡的各种生态系统。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Madagascar's ecosystems range from rainforest to semi-desert. 马达加斯加生态系统类型多样，从雨林到半荒漠等不一而足。 来自辞典例句