China has issued a satellite mobile communication business licence to a telecoms giant, in a concrete move that accelerates preparations for the large-scale commercial roll-out of its home-grown satellite services.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on Monday that it had issued the licence to China Unicom, permitting the state-owned company to conduct services such as direct-to-phone satellite connectivity and expand its applications in emergency and maritime communications.<\/p>\n
The move is expected to foster a moderately competitive market while making internet services more accessible to everyday users, the ministry said.<\/p>\n
\u201cConcurrently, coordination between telecoms enterprises and entities across the satellite mobile communications industry chain will tighten, which will be beneficial for driving industrial transformation and upgrading, as well as enhancing the resilience and security of supply chains,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
This marks the first licence the ministry has issued since it released a guideline late last month urging telecoms operators to leverage low-orbit satellite internet to expand high-speed data services beyond voice and text messaging.<\/p>\n
The announcement also comes on the heels of China Unicom\u2019s launch of four low-orbit satellites near Shandong province\u2019s Rizhao city in late August.<\/p>\n
The launch included China\u2019s first low-orbit satellite equipped with advanced narrowband Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, which provide low-power connectivity to IoT devices, marking a step forward in the country\u2019s development of low-orbit satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has issued a satellite mobile communication business licence to a telecoms giant, in a concrete move that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9710,59007,59003,116376,57263,24924,116379,116373,24444,57261,116377,116378,159,783,116375,11182,116374,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-212564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china-telecom","10":"tag-china-unicom","11":"tag-direct-to-phone-satellite-connectivity","12":"tag-guowang","13":"tag-iot","14":"tag-it-times","15":"tag-luan-xiaowei","16":"tag-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology","17":"tag-qianfan","18":"tag-rizhao-city","19":"tag-satellite-mobile-communication-business-licence","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-spacesail","23":"tag-starlink","24":"tag-tiantong-satellite-system","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173851421549046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}