How about Guiyang's pilot city-wide free WiFi hotspot experience? -Google WiFi

The application results of 12 scene based on 5G technology were announced, and Guiyang, the "China Valley Counting", once again attracted attention.

5G came, but on the other side of the spotlight, Guiyang, as the first free WiFi city in China, finally got into trouble after running for more than three years. Recently, in an interview with a reporter from Science and Technology Daily, the relevant person in charge of the operating organization revealed that the loss of the D- Guiyang project this year has reached nearly 10 million yuan.

Free WiFi in the whole city is unique to Guiyang.

D- Guiyang is the first chess piece for Guiyang to lay out the big data industry and build a "block data" platform. In 20 15, the D- Guiyang project, code-named "70 1", covering the whole city of Guiyang was officially launched. Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd., which is responsible for construction and operation, is a joint venture company jointly funded by Guiyang Municipal Government, Century Internet, Foxconn and Alibaba.

What Guiyang wants to build is the first all-weather public free WiFi system in China. According to the original plan, the whole project is expected to invest 2 billion yuan and be completed within 3 years. After completion, citizens can connect to D- Guiyang through mobile terminals such as mobile phones, tablets and notebooks in any public area of Guiyang, and get online for free anytime and anywhere.

Song Xiajin, Marketing Director of Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. said that after more than three years of construction, D- Guiyang has completed the thermal coverage of important public areas in Guiyang, including main roads, airports, high-speed railway station, parks and squares, including densely populated areas in one city and three counties, with a total of 4,500 AP emission points installed, basically meeting the original construction requirements. However, the construction funds of the whole project actually only cost about 65.438+0.2 billion yuan.

Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. announced that at present, the daily average number of Internet users in D- Guiyang is 1, 654,38+0,000, and the monthly average number of Internet users is 3.4 million. Behind this is hundreds of millions of access data.

Hematopoietic function lost tens of millions.

In fact, D- Guiyang also had a bad experience. Because the signal of WiFi is transmitted through the terminal equipment of AP, and the radiation distance of AP is limited, when two APS perform soft handover, it often happens that the connection to D- Guiyang cannot access the Internet.

A communication expert who did not want to be named pointed out in an interview with the Science and Technology Daily reporter that the access of WiFi users is limited. If users with more than 10 log in, they will obviously feel that the speed is very slow, and it is easy to form self-interference if there are too many hot spots. "The technical drawbacks determine that the outdoor WiFi experience will not always be good."

As early as the initial stage of construction, some experts in the communication industry were not optimistic about D- Guiyang. "It will cost at least 654.38 billion yuan to build a wireless WiFi in a small area, let alone achieve urban coverage. The hardware investment and operation and maintenance cost of light-scale deployment are expensive expenses. Can the Guiyang Municipal Government afford this money? "

Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. tried to find a profit model for the D- Guiyang project: it hoped to collect the data generated by citizens surfing the Internet, desensitize the data and get it to Guiyang Big Data Exchange for trading. However, due to market demand and data value, this road finally failed.

The company turned its attention to selling WiFi advertisements, but the market did not buy it. In 20 17, the advertising revenue of Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. was nearly one million yuan, but this year, it hardly came in.

The lack of hematopoietic function makes the D- Guiyang project into an unsustainable embarrassing situation. Song Xiajin said that WiFi, as an urban infrastructure, urgently needs government financial support when the business model is difficult to close. But in the past three years, Guiyang has only given millions of financial support. 20 18 Due to the D- Guiyang project, Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. lost nearly 10 million yuan. To this end, the company had to undertake other projects everywhere and reduce the number of employees from 100 to 32.

5G is coming. Where is the wireless WiFi going?

The public ***WiFi solution of Guizhou Pan-Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. was awarded the gold medal by China WiFi Alliance for its national leading technology and user experience. Since the beginning of this year, Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. has strengthened its research and development efforts and broken through the technical problems of software and hardware.

However, a reality that cannot be ignored is that the number of netizens on D- Guiyang is generally declining.

On the one hand, the roar of 5G, with its ultra-low delay and large connection, will reconstruct the industrial ecology of the Internet of Everything. On the other hand, operators continue to promote network speed-up and fee reduction. In the face of the traffic package of cabbage price, where will wireless WiFi like D- Guiyang go?

Tao Pei, an engineer of Guizhou Mobile Big Data Branch, believes that due to network stability, security risks and other factors, wireless WiFi is difficult to use normally in crowded places, while mature 5G technology can reach-0.0 million connections per square kilometer/kloc, with obvious advantages. Therefore, after the relevant terminal products of 5G come out, wireless WiFi will become more and more marginalized in certain scenarios such as outdoor, until it is finally replaced.

Song Xiajin said that the Pandora's Box in the traffic market has been opened, and various traffic promotion products have poured in, which has formed obvious challenges to the healthy development of the WiFi industry, and also made the value point mining outside WiFi traffic a new topic for the development of the WiFi industry. In order to break through, Guizhou Pan Asia ICT Network Technology Co., Ltd. has integrated a series of intelligent product system integration solutions, vigorously expanded domestic and foreign markets, and achieved initial results.

Hu Haibo, deputy director of the Institute of Industry and Planning of China Information and Communication Research Institute, believes that wireless WiFi, especially indoor wireless WiFi, is difficult to be completely replaced in a short time due to its advantages in coverage and transmission.