A month since its official launch, the number of CTM customers who have upgraded to 5G has reached over 50,000, which was an “encouraging figure”, CTM Commercial Affairs Vice President Ebel Cham Pou I told The Macau Post Daily yesterday.
Cham made the remarks yesterday after the Inauguration Ceremony of the CTM 5G New Era and Ushering Into Digital Macau 3.0 Forum at the University of Macau (UM), which was jointly organised by CITIC Telecom International and CTM.
CTM is a subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited.
Cham also commented that the response to CTM’s 5G fees was positive, pointing out that they are lower than those for 4G.
Regarding the expectations for how 5G can be applied moving forward, Cham said that once the penetration rate* for 5G users increased, she believed that more business sectors and developers would be convinced to get on board with the 5G network’s characteristics as a basis to develop new applications or content services.
She cited the government’s push for content involving augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) as an example, which would also rely on a more stable and highspeed data network. “5G is the backhaul to support this kind of content development”, Cham pointed out. This could also enable local users to enjoy high quality content services and new applications, as well as enable tourists from different places to use CTM’s 5G roaming services.
Moreover, regarding how Macau compares to neighbouring cities, Cham noted that CTM has already completed the full 5G network coverage of Macau, making it the third city behind Hangzhou and Shenzhen in the nation to have full 5G coverage, which was among the “key milestones” Macau has achieved.
Meanwhile, according to a statement provided by CTM yesterday, CITIC Group has “given full play to its advantages in comprehensive financial services and fully supported the development of a number of 5G leading companies and key companies in the industrial chain”.
Moreover, the statement noted, the group has a “spectrum of investment in the information industry”, which covers cross-border telecommunications, satellite communications, among others, and has leading digital and intelligent service capabilities, meanwhile, through the continuous expansion of new technologies such as 5G.
*Penetration rate refers to “the ratio of the number of users of a product or service to the total population that is targeted by that product or service”, according to Sortlist.
Commercial Affairs Vice President Ebel Cham Pou I speaks with reporters after yesterday’s event, which was held at the University of Macau (UM).
– Photo: Rui Pastorin
