Because of the new product of Huawei, how far is the satellite communication mobile phone from consumers?

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Pan Liang

Photo/Interviewee Confer

On the afternoon of September 6, Shenzhen, Guangdong. With the official release of the Huawei Mate50 series new products, the previous preview of the technology of "破 随 随" "True Rong" surfaced -Huawei Mate50 series is equipped with Hongmeng 3.0 operating system. It is the world's first Volkswagen smartphone to support Beidou satellite communication news. Users can also send information without signal on the ground.

Satellite communication functions have attracted much attention due to Huawei Mate50 "new". Specifically, what is its technical functions, tariff costs, and industry layout? A reporter from Yangcheng Evening News interviewed experts.

Function: Unsecured station signals can also send information with short messages

After two years, Huawei released the Mate series mobile phone again, and the outside world "expects to be full." Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei and CEO of the terminal business group, said at the press conference: "In the past 70 years, satellite communications are mainly concentrated in professional fields. It is difficult for ordinary consumers to enjoy satellite communication services. Popular smartphones with satellite news have opened a new era of Volkswagen Satellite Communications. "

It is understood that the satellite communication system is actually a microwave communication. The satellite is used as a relay station to forward the microwave signal, communicating between multiple ground stations to achieve the "seamless gap" coverage of the ground.

"Huawei's satellite communication technology is completed through the release of the short newspaper function through the Beidou satellite. Even remote areas without base station signals can also send information through short newspapers. Such information can work at critical moments, such as maritime affairs, such as maritime affairs, such as maritime affairs, such as maritime affairs Zhongjun Dangerous Boats call for help. At present, the integration of domestic smartphones and satellite communication technology is mainly in terms of GPS positioning. The short newspapers have not yet been popularized, so the Mate50 series released by Huawei this time has certain significance. "Zhejiang The joint director, researcher Pan, and Lin said in an interview with reporters in the International Joint Business School of the University International Joint Business School.

It is reported that the core capacity of smartphones is communication. Traditional smartphones' communication capabilities need to rely on communication base stations. There is no dead corner of communication in the position distributed by the base station. However, after using satellite communication applications, users can also send text and location information for help in the extreme environment where the desert uninhabited area, offshore risk, earthquake rescue, etc. can be used in the extreme environment where there is no ground network signal coverage. Generate trajectory maps.

Bottleneck: cost and experience make it difficult to popularize the temporary large -scale

As one of the leading companies in the field of communication, Huawei has long been planned in satellite communications. Now it is the first to achieve mobile phone terminal satellite communication technology through short newspapers. However, some experts believe that this time the Huawei Mate50 series is not a "satellite communication" in the real sense, because it can only send text messages, and there is no way to realize real -time calls and other functions.

For smart phones that support satellite communication, how does consumers cost more? The technical person in charge of a mobile phone manufacturer told reporters: "From manufacturing to heaven costs 100 billion yuan, one million yuan each year and maintenance. According to the life expectancy of ten years, a satellite needs to send 200 million short messages and each year. 1 dollar does not lose money. In fact, taking the use of maritime satellite telephones in China as an example, except for 200 yuan to enter the network fee, the fee per minute is about 1.8 yuan. "Because satellite communication requires high operating maintenance costs that require high operation and maintenance costs The scarcity of resources, in the future, mobile phone manufacturers are more likely to charge according to entries. However, Huawei has no response for the specific charging method.

The reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned that for ordinary consumers, in daily life, satellite telephones cannot become mainstream communication tools. Because you must first buy a special mobile phone, the price and tariff standards are not close to the people. On the e -commerce platform, the price of a portable satellite telephone is mostly between 4,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan; and its antenna is large, carrying it, carrying carried, carrying it with carried, carrying it with carriers, carrying it with carriers, carrying it with carriers, carrying it with carriers, carrying it with carriers, carrying carried by carrier, carrying it with carriers, carrying carried by carrier, carrying carried, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it. It is inconvenient to call and sometimes delay.

Pan and Lin said that the application of satellite communication technology on smartphones, on the one hand, the current tariffs are relatively expensive, and in the future to be reduced; on the other hand, the size of the components is large, and the increase in parts will make smartphones become smartphones. Cumbersome, you need to optimize; in addition, satellite communication technology is also delayed. In terms of information content, it is mainly newspapers, and there is still a distance from satellite network communication. However, the advantage is that satellite communication technology can achieve full communication, and can also avoid communication and communication difficulties in remote areas.

If the mobile phone gradually supports satellite communication functions, does it mean that users no longer need to buy operators package in the future? Pan and Lin told reporters: "Due to the physical distance restrictions on the ground to satellite, the satellite communication technology has obvious network delay, and the Internet experience will not be better than the honeycomb mobile network. This technology is mainly aimed at communication problems in remote areas. An important supplement to the base station network, but it can not replace the cellular mobile network, nor will it change the market structure of the mobile operator. "

Some experts have said that, with the promotion of consumer -ending companies such as Huawei, the application demand for satellite communication may usher in an explosive growth in the future, and these demand will push the development of domestic satellite communications technology. At the same time, with the commercial operation of the industrial upstream, the cost will continuously reduce the cost, and the satellite coverage will gradually increase, making it possible for satellite communication to spread to a large scale.

Layout: Many companies compete for satellite communication "new track"

Driven by Huawei's new products, recently, A -shares' satellite Internet, satellite navigation, communication equipment and other sectors have performed active performance, "rising sounds." In fact, the "new track" market potential of satellite communication is huge, and many companies have entered the contest. It is understood that at the beginning of this year, the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" Digital Economic Development Plan issued by the State Council emphasized that it actively and steadily promoted the evolution and upgrading of space information infrastructure, accelerated the layout of satellite communication networks, etc., and promoted the construction of satellite Internet. Policy support and market efforts have continuously improved satellite communication technology, and gradually explored and applied to the daily life of residents.

In addition to Huawei, other mobile phone manufacturers are also rushing to launch new products equipped with satellite communication technology. On the evening of September 5, Geely, a subsidiary of Geely, who acquired 79.09%of Meizu Technology, announced that it will launch the world's first direct low -orbit satellite consumer mobile phone.

From the perspective of companies that responded to the A -share market, before, Yu Chengdong revealed that Huawei will break through again in communication technology- "the technology of breaking the sky". All parties speculate that the Huawei Mate 50 series new products will support satellite communication functions. Fast affected by this, the satellite Internet, satellite navigation, and communication equipment sectors of A shares also "broke the sky". On September 3, the Wind WeChat Internet index and satellite navigation index continued to rise, and technological stocks such as semiconductors, software, chips and other science and technology stocks also rose collectively. Conceptual performance is active. On the 6th, other concept stocks, the screen stocks of Victoria's daily limit, San'an Optoelectronics, BOE A, etc., and the Beidou concept stocks Lyoyan chip rose 12.31%on the day.

In May this year, the Sidi Think Tank predicted that "mobile phone+low -orbit satellite communication" is expected to start new development directions in the Red Sea market, which is a powerful means to build a new space for future information consumption. The Sidi Think Tank believes that the global mobile phone innovation and development space tends to be saturated. Facing the complex industry development environment and fierce external competition, mobile phone manufacturers must target forward -looking and revolutionary innovation technologies to accelerate the mobile phone industry and low -orbit satellite communication industry Integration development. In this way, we can meet the consumer demand of users' continuous upgrades and start the new development direction of the mobile phone industry.

Standing on the wind, there is far more than mobile phone manufacturers. Data from Tianyan Check shows that there are currently 25,000 satellite communications enterprises in my country. In the past ten years, the number of satellite communication related enterprises has steadily increased year by year. Among them, the number of new registered companies in 2020 increased by 141%year -on -year, an increase of 65.4%year -on -year in 2021, and an increase of 33.5%year -on -year in the first half of 2022.

The rapid increase in related companies will accelerate the integration of high -tech such as satellite communication with big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, which is expected to form new economic growth points. The "2022 China Satellite Navigation and Location Service Industry Development White Paper" compiled by the China Satellite Navigation Positioning Association Research Institute shows that the overall output value of my country's satellite navigation and location service industry in 2021 reached 469 billion yuan, which maintained a high -speed growth trend year -on -year. In the future, with the continuous development of the satellite industry economy, the satellite Internet is expected to be applied to all walks of life.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Responsible editor | Wang Haiyan

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