China Mobile delivers 5G terminals

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China Mobile, world's largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, announced the delivery of over 10,000 5G terminals on Tuesday, which was the country's first large-scale delivery of 5G devices just weeks after the issuing of official 5G licenses.

According to Li Huidi, vice-president of China Mobile, a total of 42 types of terminals, mainly consisting of smartphones and customer premise equipment, were delivered to major device manufacturers such as Huawei Technologies Co, Xiaomi Corp, Oppo, ZTE and One-Plus.