During the Fifth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Li Huidi, Vice President of China Mobile, announced that China Mobile will launch their 5G smartphone product lines in the first half of 2019.
The corporation leads the world in terms of releasing a “5G Terminal Pioneer Program” which states that a 5G terminal white paper will be released by the end of this year and the first 5G-enabled devices under its own brand will be launched in 2019.
Li also suggested that China Mobile is making an all-out effort to enable the use of 5G for commercial purposes and that it has scheduled “pre-commercial use” and “commercial use” as the respective targets for 2019 and 2020.