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- China ended last year with almost 4.2 million 5G base stations, according to the country’s tech minstry
- That number is set to increase by more than 7% this year
- China’s three main operators already boast almost 1.2 billion 5G connections between them
China ended 2024 with 4.19 million 5G base stations “built and put into operation”, enabling “5G in every village”, and that number is expected to increase by more than 300,000 to 4.5 million by the end of this year, according to an update shared by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) during its National Industrial and Information Technology Work Conference held in Beijing at the end of last year.
To put that into perspective, China’s telcos are expected to build more 5G base stations this year than the US mobile operators have until now deployed between them: The US telcos had about 270,000 5G base stations up and running in total by the start of 2024, according to this report from KPMG.
