Iron towers, also known as signal towers, are an important part of telecom operators' infrastructure. In the early stage, in order to seize the market, the three major operators continued to build base stations and other facilities, resulting in many problems such as low network resource utilization and repeated investment. In 2014, under the leadership of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the three operators held a coordination meeting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to discuss how to make better use of resources and avoid excessive waste of resources. In this case, the Chinese Tower came into being.
The Chinese steel tower standing on the shoulders of giants is developing rapidly. In just a few years, it has become the world's largest communications infrastructure operator, with 2.1 million communications towers and assets of over 330 billion yuan.
More importantly, the tower model, which originated from sharing, relies on shared development, and takes "sharing, competition, and cooperation" as the core, has gradually realized the transformation from individual construction to overall planning and unified construction, and has developed rapidly in China. Intensification, scale, specialization and efficiency direction. Data shows that by the end of 2020, China Tower has increased the total number of tower sites used by telecom companies by 1.3 times, helping to build the world's largest and best-quality 4G/5G network, and the level of sharing has significantly improved. New towers have increased from 14.3% to 80%, equivalent to saving 840,000 iron towers and saving 150.5 billion yuan in industrial investment,
"China's iron towers shoulder important missions and responsibilities in the new infrastructure." Liu Guofeng, deputy general manager of China Tower Co., Ltd., said when attending the 2021 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Conference on May 17, 2021, that China's iron towers are in full swing Expand social sharing of articles.
