China officially kicked off commercialization of 5G services on Thursday, with the nation's big three telecom operators rolling out their 5G data plans.

10月31日，中国正式启动5G商用服务，三大通讯运营商纷纷推出5G商用套餐。

 

The move shows consumers can finally pay to access the superfast speed of 5G, as more than 86,000 5G base stations have already entered services in China.

此举意味着普通消费者可以真正花钱享受5G带来的高速服务，目前中国已经开通8.6万个5G基站。

 

The big three telecom operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, for the first time chose to price tariffs by internet speed rather than data allowance. For instance, China Unicom prices the data plan which allows peak speed of 500Mbps at 199 yuan. For those who want to enjoy peak speed of 1Gbps, they have to pay at least 299 yuan.

三大运营商——中国移动、中国联通和中国电信，首次选择根据网速而非数据流量来定价。例如，中国联通将500Mbps的峰值网速套餐定价为199元，而只有299元以上能享受到最高1Gbps峰值速率。

 

About 497,000 5G smartphones have already been shipped to the Chinese mainland in the past month, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology shows.

中国信息通信研究院的数据显示，9月份5G智能手机在中国大陆的出货量为49.7万部。

 

（英文来源：China Daily）