ECONOMY

5G Deployment

Hunan Province in central China has built 13,586 5G base stations since 2019, and the number is expected to hit 22,000 by the end of this year, local authorities said on August 2.

In the first half of this year, the province built 10,986 5G base stations, according to the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hunan.

Hunan has been expediting the construction of 5G facilities and expanding innovative applications of this technology to promote the development of related industries.

According to the department, provincial capital Changsha has built a large-scale cloud data center and is constructing a pilot zone for enterprises to innovate 5G applications on the industrial Internet.

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