Since 2019, China Telecom and China Unicom have been working on 5G network co-construction and sharing, with major breakthroughs made in technology development, networking, operations, and management. Together, they have built the world’s first, largest, and fastest 5G Standalone (SA) shared network, realising one physical network correlated with two logical networks, and multiple customised private networks.

This whitepaper describes the technology development, operations, management, business models, and future evolution of 5G network co-construction and sharing the technologies and solutions which have been proven effective by the Chinese operators.