After using a half-year 5G bundle, I became a “fake 5G user” -Communication Technology-5G

“How to define fake 5G users” is an interesting topic. As we all know, users today want to experience the needs of the 5G network to meet three main conditions: 5G mobile phones, upgraded mobile phone cards to 5G packets, and network coverage under the 5G infrastructure are indispensable. Therefore, from the perspective of mathematical disposition,There are currently three possible possibilities for fake 5G users: there is a card without a cell phone, a cell phone without a card, and a cell phone with a card but without the Internet.

Specifically, the “card and no cell phone” situation is logically impossible: imagine that as a normal person, would you upgrade an expensive 5G package without a 5G mobile phone? This is obviously incredible. However, it’s puzzling that current public data shows that a 5G user is so fake that it completely violates logic and common sense is actually “existing”.

According to statistics from the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications, as of the first quarter of 2019, China’s 5G mobile phone shipments were 27.827 million units (13.769 million in 2019 and 14.06 million in the first quarter of 2020) . At the same time, the number of 5G package openings announced by the three main operators and the data reported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesperson and the Director of the Department of Information and Communication Development Wenku reported that the number of 5G packet users in the country has exceeded 50 million, resulting in at least 20 million data. Poor, and these 20 million users are the so-called “no card phones”.

Currently, the only thing I can think of for this situation is that some users with 5G cards are using overseas versions of 5G mobile phones, such as the Korean version Samsung Galaxy S20, but this is not the main reason for the difference. 20 million data. There are still other reasons for the “water injection” of the three main operators. Today we will not discuss it in depth.

The second case is that there is no card in the mobile phone, but this situation also caused another strange phenomenon, that is, the 5G signal is displayed after the 5G mobile phone is inserted into the 4G card, and the network speed It is faster than that of the 4G mobile phone. Several or ten times. In actual experience, the network speed in this case has an upper limit, which cannot reach the current minimum limit of 500Mbps set by the three main carriers, so many users once thought they could enjoy 5G of the top three carriers without buying a 5G package. Minimum package

But in fact this is not the case. China Union informed the official account that the current 4G package + 5G mobile phone enjoys the contract rate of the 4G package, i.e. the maximum downlink rate is 300Mbps (i.e. 37.5MB / s), and the network Mobile phone display is 5G. It is worth mentioning that the speed of the 4G network in this case may be close to the highest speed of the 4G network, which means that inserting a 4G card into a 5G mobile phone actually stimulates the potential of the card 4G, allowing the original 4G network of original “speed limit” to be Break through yourself.

Therefore, it is better to say that these users with mobile phones and without cards are fake 5G users than fake 4G users.It is the 4G user who has the 5G mobile phone that I envy and I envy the 5G starter pack.

The last case is a fake 5G user with a mobile phone and card but no network, and it can be said that this situation abounds in the 5G network environment where there are not, sometimes good times in the initial stage of commercial use. 5G. This is the current 5G user. Shame is also the shame of the three main operators.

Taking the city of Beijing as an example, data released by China Unicom in early April shows that the number of 5G base stations opened by Beijing Unicom has exceeded 10,000, continuous coverage within the Fifth Ring has been achieved, and more than 70 % has been covered within Six Ring Road. Some key areas abroad have also achieved continuous coverage. At the same time, key areas like Chang’an Street, Tiananmen’s Forbidden City area, and Beijing Daxing International Airport have covered all 5G networks.

However, from the current 5G coverage map of China Unicom’s mobile phone business center, even within the second ring, the 5G network still does not have full coverage. The continuous coverage described by Unicom can be understood as the 5G signal in the fifth ring connected to a 5G network. However, there are also a lot of holes in this network, which cannot be ignored at all, so there are still no 5G signals in many places. For China Unicom, there is still a long way to go to achieve the goal of full coverage within the Fifth Ring.

At the same time, during the daily use experience, the 5G network signal is extremely unstable. You never know when the 5G signal will appear. Fortunately, today’s 5G mobile phone has a smooth transition between 5G signal and 4G signal. The transition has no signal.

On the other hand, at present, many Unicom mobile phone business salons show that there is no 5G network coverage in the areas covered by the 5G network, or that the network speed is extremely poor. For example, our office is located in an art area on East Fourth Ring Road. It is not as good as 4G. Although it has improved, it is still only several times faster than 4G.

During my 5G half year experience, 5G network speed is generally single digit (M / S unit), and about ten digits appear. The main reason for this situation is that 5G network itself is caused by On the other hand, most life scenes do not require too high network.

More importantly, since the coverage of the 5G network in the home and company is not very good, this has led 90% of the scenes in my daily life to live under the 4G network and WiFi.Therefore, the 5G experience in the past six months seems to be more like “self-deception” under the expensive monthly fee. Others think they are 5G users. In fact, I’m only a 4G user with a 5G coat.

Therefore, I suffered a serious delay and finally decided to go back to the Unicom commercial office to exchange the 4G package (originally I wanted to change it again in a month).

“5G is good, but it’s not time yet,” I told Unicom’s business lounge staff.