China has launched the world’s first commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, with a significant deployment in Xiong’an New Area, a high-tech city being developed as a smart metropolis. The initiative, a collaboration between Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, went live on 20 April 2025.
how is it the world’s first when there are several ISPs that have been offering 10g fiber for the past year
Past year? Iint7 (Switzerland) has been offering symmetric 10Gb to home users for almost a decade and their flagship home package has been 25Gbps for a few years now. Multiple ISPs in the UK have offered symmetric 10Gb for 6-7 years, ditto some American and Singaporean ISPs. I’ve had 10Gb on tap for years now. Funny how this clickbait untruthful article also slips in that the product isn’t even symmetric, having a 10:1 down/up ratio. The 10Gb from my own ISP is being upgraded to symmetric 50Gbps later this year.
Its the worlds first in China*
I have no idea, they’re saying they’re basing the deployment on Huawei 50G networks, sooo I think this is either the author who didn’t understand the assignment or a terrible translation?
Edit: well it seems like it’s 10G as in cellular. Every article is absolutely trash so I searched in Chinese and found this article (translated) which compares it to 5G and mentions the use of new wavelengths to transmit the data
Edit2: here is the full translated article since the linked translation doesn’t seem to work anymore
Chinese telecom giants Huawei and China Unicom announced the launch of the first 10G network worldwide, with download speeds of 9,834 megabits per second and upload speeds of 1,008 megabits per second. At the same time, the delay is only three milliseconds, which makes the network one of the fastest and most advanced networks in the world. 10G is coming, and the world is still catching up with 5G.
When most countries around the world were still worried about the coverage of 5G base stations, China had already taken the lead in opening the door to the 10G era. What does a download speed of 9.8Gbps mean? A 20GB 4K movie can be finished in 20 seconds. This kind of overwhelming advantage is like driving a J-20 to see others playing with paper airplanes. A delay of three milliseconds rewrites the rules of the game
E-sports players should applaud wildly at this moment-the delay of 3ms is faster than the speed of human neural response. Areas that require zero error, such as remote surgery and autonomous driving, are finally waiting for their “oxygen”. Ericsson’s best 5G record tested last year was 8ms, and China directly inserted the benchmark to the top of Mount Everest. Huawei’s millimeter wave black technology can’t hide it. The key to this breakthrough lies in the application of the 26GHz millimeter wave band. Just like expanding a single lane to ten lanes, Huawei’s AAU (active antenna unit) technology has greatly improved signal transmission efficiency. The U.S. FCC will not auction this part of the spectrum until 2022, and the technological gap is already clear at a glance.
Don’t rush to change your mobile phone. The 10G ecosystem has just started. Don’t rush to smash the 5G mobile phone in your hand. At present, the terminal equipment that supports 10G has not yet been mass-produced. Just like in the early days of 5G commercial use, no matter how fast the network ran, it had to wait for the terminal to keep up. However, according to the iteration speed of Chinese manufacturers, this transition period is probably shorter than the popularity of net celebrities.
The true portrayal from following the race to leading the way. In 2016, China’s 5G patents accounted for less than 20%, and China accounted for 40.3% of global 6G patent applications in 2023. This time the 10G commercial is like a beautiful shot back, making the narrative of “technological hegemony” more and more like a fantasy of self-comfort.
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense because even in the article it talks about other nations already having it and china trying to rollout faster.
Maybe it’s over a mobile connection?
I’ve been able to get 8GBps fibre home internet for the last 5 years in rural Canada. I doubt this is the first 10GBps commercial broadband network.
This is cellular though
I’m paying 160$cad for 300mbps, regular GPON service in rural :(
Fibre access is not evenly distributed, some places only have satellite access as an option. Meanwhile Rogers just ran fibre down our road so now we have the option to use Bell or Rogers.
I’m in Central Wyoming and could call my ISP right now to order a 10Gbs upgrade. My 2Gbs is plenty fast enough though.
This is 10G cellular
Then why does the whole article talk about PON and fiber?
ngl I’d like to know how this article was written – and the dozens of similar articles I could find around.
It’s terrible, and the few details given are misleading. Here is a post (translated from the original) I found on chinese internet (Baidu) talking about the topic.
Chinese telecom giants Huawei and China Unicom announced the launch of the first 10G network worldwide, with download speeds of 9,834 megabits per second and upload speeds of 1,008 megabits per second. At the same time, the delay is only three milliseconds, which makes the network one of the fastest and most advanced networks in the world. 10G is coming, and the world is still catching up with 5G.
When most countries around the world were still worried about the coverage of 5G base stations, China had already taken the lead in opening the door to the 10G era. What does a download speed of 9.8Gbps mean? A 20GB 4K movie can be finished in 20 seconds. This kind of overwhelming advantage is like driving a J-20 to see others playing with paper airplanes. A delay of three milliseconds rewrites the rules of the game
E-sports players should applaud wildly at this moment-the delay of 3ms is faster than the speed of human neural response. Areas that require zero error, such as remote surgery and autonomous driving, are finally waiting for their “oxygen”. Ericsson’s best 5G record tested last year was 8ms, and China directly inserted the benchmark to the top of Mount Everest. Huawei’s millimeter wave black technology can’t hide it. The key to this breakthrough lies in the application of the 26GHz millimeter wave band. Just like expanding a single lane to ten lanes, Huawei’s AAU (active antenna unit) technology has greatly improved signal transmission efficiency. The U.S. FCC will not auction this part of the spectrum until 2022, and the technological gap is already clear at a glance.
Don’t rush to change your mobile phone. The 10G ecosystem has just started. Don’t rush to smash the 5G mobile phone in your hand. At present, the terminal equipment that supports 10G has not yet been mass-produced. Just like in the early days of 5G commercial use, no matter how fast the network ran, it had to wait for the terminal to keep up. However, according to the iteration speed of Chinese manufacturers, this transition period is probably shorter than the popularity of net celebrities.
The true portrayal from following the race to leading the way. In 2016, China’s 5G patents accounted for less than 20%, and China accounted for 40.3% of global 6G patent applications in 2023. This time the 10G commercial is like a beautiful shot back, making the narrative of “technological hegemony” more and more like a fantasy of self-comfort.
At the moment I’m happy with my old school 600Mb conection
The best I can do for the price and consistency is Verizon 5G home internet and it’ll fluctuate between 80Mbps and 300Mbps down. Upload at best 30Mbps. Not lucky to live in a fiber neighborhood. All the cable providers are worse than 5G alternatives though I’m certain the 5G services will get worse with age
Cry’s in 100/20Mb
These guys are doing like the Americans with first flight, first phone call, first recorded conversation, first anything.
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You really don’t need to be a billionaire to afford crazy internet speeds (if you want them). You can get a 100G port from pretty much any ISP for ~$8k/mo, or even cheaper if you are willing to have a bandwidth cap. Then assuming you really want it, you’d have to pay to get the fiber laid to your home, which can be a few hundred thousand dollars depending on how far away you are. Of course this is ridiculous for home internet, but it is within reach for people that are way poorer then billionaires.
Awesome, that cuts the Steam update time till I can game down to under half an hour!
The only reason to have such fast internet at home is for torrents. Nothing else will saturate 10G, even with several people using it.
I WFH for a company where we’re regularly moving files and packages in the 100s of GBs. I’m already on 2.5Gb and and I still ahev to wait 10-20 minutes at times. I also share a connection with my wife who is a CAD designer and 3D Space modeler for an architect who also works from home who also has similar upload & download times for some of her work.
That’s just us. There’s plenty of other professionals out there that work with large files between teams either as a job or hobby from home.
10Gb has a market for home users. It may be limited at this time, but it’s there.
Sometimes the reason there is no use for it is because the data was unavailable. With larger data throughput, more and better services may become available.
Even when you consider common stuff like gaming, it often takes a while to fully download or update games.
It’s not even for the home lol, this is cellular. and yeah I cant find a reason for it, one of the reasons mentioned is medical procedures as the network only adds a 3ms delay
My ssd on its own is way faster than that, and I have four of them.
I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.
In this point, China isn’t worse than the US currently.
Where do you live? Can’t be the US.
I swear I thought korea had this.
This is cellular
oh. ok that makes sense then.
