James Joiner
Wednesday 12 May, 2021
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This post is part of a blog series on funding provided by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that the GSMA awarded to nine previous grantees in the water, sanitation, education, health and food security sectors which enabled them to continue delivering essential services to customers following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we look at changes in the use of mobile money across the water and sanitation sectors during the pandemic.
China set to dominate the global 5G landscape: report
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China set to dominate the global 5G landscape: Report
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China set to dominate the global 5G landscape: report
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A woman using her mobile phone walks past a vehicle covered in a China Unicom 5G advertisement in Beijing, China. Reuters/File
China took the lead in terms of the 5G market in 2020, with 200 million new 5G connections, accounting for 87 per cent of the global total, and the number is expected to hit 822 million by 2025, according to a report released by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association on Feb 22.
Rapid growth of 5G application in China is backed by the country s continuous network construction and expanding end device ecosystem.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese operators have deployed about 600,000 5G base stations in 2020, and the cumulative total has reached 718,000, ranking first in the world, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.