State - owned telco China Mobile is set to be tasked with deploying a 5 G network in the 2.6 GHz and more expensive 3 GHz bands , with an expected allocation of 300 MHz . China Telecom and China Unicom are certain to benefit from the economies of scale as the cost of new network deployment could be much lower in view of the sufficient supply of network equipment from all major vendors, given that global operators will mostly build their 5G networks on the 3.5GHz band. Analysts have suggested the company 's deep pockets and large customer base enable it to maximise the potential of the 4.9 GHz band , which requires more base stations , but warned upstream network vendors to be slow to provide support . Meanwhile , smaller companies China Telecom and China Unicom are set to be allocated 100 MHz each on the global 3.5 ##G band , which requires less capacity than the 4.9 GHz network .
State - owned telco China Mobile is set to be tasked with deploying a 5 G network in the 2.6 GHz and more expensive 3 GHz bands , with an expected allocation of 300 MHz . Analysts have suggested the company 's deep pockets and large customer base enable it to maximise the potential of the 4.9 GHz band , which requires more base stations , but warned upstream network vendors to be slow to provide support . Meanwhile , smaller companies China Telecom and China Unicom are set to be allocated 100 MHz each on the global 3.5 ##G band , which requires less capacity than the 4.9 GHz network .