The 5G era is coming, what are Chinese companies going to do?

China has officially entered the 4G Network ERA after Unicom and telecom were awarded Fdd-lte licences. And the National science and Technology enterprises and the Government has turned to the next generation mobile network technology, namely 5G, fifth generation mobile communication standard.

After 3G of TD-SCDMA, 4G LTE two-generation technology baptism, Chinese enterprises in the next generation of network standards in the process of making the oath to occupy the leading position. The telecom authorities in the US, Japan and Europe have agreed to jointly set 5G standards, and Huawei, the most powerful telecoms equipment company in the country, recently announced it will invest 600 million of billions of dollars in research and development related technologies for patent reserves. In view of the big trend, the global network standard of 5G era will realize unification, and Huawei will become one of the core standard-maker. In the 3/4g era, Chinese companies ' high reliance on Qualcomm patent libraries will no longer be available when the next generation of technology is pervasive.

Huawei's dominance of the next generation of communications standards is undoubtedly beneficial to its global strategy. Determined to do one of the world's three smart equipment companies in the future of Huawei in the international market will no longer fear opponents of patent barriers, even with their own patent resources to gain competitive advantage. If Huawei's baseband technology can compete with Qualcomm, it can also help its Heiss chip products sell overseas. It is clear that Huawei will take the 5G Dongfeng to win the international market, suppress Samsung challenge Apple, become the consumer electronics industry giants.

But China's technology companies, which want to "go out", are far more than Huawei. Millet, ZTE, Lenovo, the charm of the family and even Ali Tencent, want to be in the International consumer electronics market a piece. Little Miro just issued rhetoric, to be in 10 years to do the world's largest mobile smartphone brand. Huawei said the future of Chinese mobile phone companies will only have their own survival, millet "will soon disappear." Chinese companies have yet to compete head-on with Samsung Apple overseas, and the local public opinion battle is already on the surface.

If Huawei uses its patent advantage in telecoms technology to clamp down on its homegrown rivals in international markets, it will undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on these brands. 3/4G China Mobile phone companies rely on Qualcomm's patent umbrella to grow, Qualcomm itself does not make terminal equipment, and customers are not competitive, so you can generously allow customers to borrow their own patent library to avoid intellectual property litigation. But Huawei's position and goals make it impossible for him to act like Qualcomm, and are likely to fire mercilessly on his own friends. For Huawei, China's giants have enough of their own. The higher the Huawei's position in the 5G standard, the greater the threat to other manufacturers.

Others, of course, will not sit idly by with Huawei's aggressive tactics. But the lack of technology accumulation of millet, Lenovo, the charm family and other enterprises in a short period of time in the patent to catch up with Huawei's footsteps. The choice before them is really not much, and singles alone, each other is almost doomed to failure. After all, we are not so strong financial and human resources, can not and deep pockets of Apple, Google, Microsoft and other comparisons.

Therefore, in the 5G era China may have a confrontation with Huawei Industry Alliance-a number of companies to jointly acquire technology, patents and talent, together against rivals ' ambitions. Apple, Microsoft and other companies together to buy Nortel Group patent bag to suppress Google's business case may be repeated in China, and this time the protagonist has become millet, ZTE, Lenovo and Huawei rivalry. In addition, Qualcomm, rung and other foreign enterprises in the field of telecommunications with millet and other cooperation, the opportunity to suppress Huawei. The war eventually became a free-for-all for Chinese and foreign companies.

Samsung and Apple, the common rivals of Chinese companies, are by no means easy to pull down. Apple's strength does not have to say that Samsung, although its performance continues to slide, is still the second largest consumer electronics company with a profit of more than 20 billion dollars a year. Samsung's semiconductor sector is close to Intel, and the technology reserves of Samsung Electronics are extremely strong. There is a big chance that Chinese brands will have to come in first before the global market presses Samsung. The winner of this fight will qualify to compete with Samsung and become one of the world's top technology giants. The establishment of 5G standards, the beginning of commercial promotion is the domestic enterprises in the international market began a comprehensive war mark. Huawei's campaign with Millet has turned into a full-scale confrontation, even the largest and most far-reaching commercial rivalry ever made in China.

Although we also hope that Chinese enterprises can unite to open the international market with the opportunity of the next generation of communication standards, and grow up to compete with Samsung Apple, but the reality has broken this ideal. The Chinese brand's inner battle is inevitable, but hopefully this kind of infighting will not end up being a lose-lose one, but a joke in the eyes of others.

Responsible Editor: Evelyn Tags: 5G operators