In the carrier industry, it seems that it is now popular to play as a new subsidiary.
Recently, China Telecom has established a new subsidiary. The company's focus seems to be on the drone business. In this way, the drone business is going to become a new business for telecommunications.
It is understood that China Telecom has recently set up a subsidiary in Jiangsu called China Telecom Unmanned Technology (Jiangsu)**. The company is 100% owned by China Telecom.
From the perspective of business scope, the business scope of this new company includes intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle sales, 5G communication technology services, general aviation services, surveying and mapping services, value-added telecommunications services, etc.
From the business layout of this new company, in fact, the intention of telecom can be clearly seen. The establishment of this new subsidiary of China Telecom is actually a sword to refer to the "low-altitude economy". It seems that the drone business is going to become a new business for telecommunications.
If you really want to talk about it, the "low-altitude economy" should be regarded as an interdisciplinary discipline with deep integration of the communication field and the transportation field, and it is also a hot application field in recent years.
"Low altitude" generally refers to the airspace within 1,000 meters of the vertical distance from the ground plane directly below. The low-altitude economy is the economic activity based on this part of the airspace, as well as multi-scenario low-altitude flight activities such as carrying people, cargo and other operations. In this field, drones and intelligent aerial vehicles are just a key application product type.At present, UAVs have been popularized from professional applications to mass applications, and the application prospects of UAVs have become more extensive in more fields.
As a data-driven aerial mobile agent in the network environment, UAVs are small in size, highly flexible, and have multiple functions such as communication, perception, computing, and manning and carrying goods. As a result, drones will play a very important role in many industries.
After the popularization of 5G networks, the application range of drones has become more and more. At present, the largest application scenario of UAVs is aerial photography, in addition to cruise, security inspection, surveying and mapping, plant protection and other aspects of the most advanced backhaul business. This requires the operator's network.
In terms of logistics and transportation, drones have also shown more application value. This will obviously make the application of drones more business opportunities.
It is worth mentioning that the upgraded 5G-A network of 5G is gradually being deployed on a large scale. The increase in network performance brought about by 5G-A has made drone applications more convenient.
In particular, the integrated synaesthesia capability of 5G-A technology will also open up a wider range of applications for drones and intelligent aerial vehicles. This will further promote and empower the development of IoT applications and the low-altitude economy.
Therefore, some industry experts believe that in 5G and 5G-A networks, the low-altitude economy will become an important incremental market for operators in the future. Among them, drones and related businesses are important channels and high-end business areas.From this point of view, the establishment of China Telecom Unmanned Technology shows the determination of Telecom to expand the low-altitude economy and UAV business, and it also means that Telecom is gradually moving towards commercial use in the field of "low-altitude economy" represented by UAVs.
In the past, most of the important players in the low-altitude economic industry chain were upstream aircraft terminal manufacturers, midstream application developers, and downstream commercial users and service operators including logistics and aerial photography.
However, with the emergence of UAV applications, the importance of communication operators in the low-altitude economic industry chain has become increasingly prominent. After all, without the support of communication networks, drones would become headless flies.In this way, in the new low-altitude production service mode brought about by the low-altitude economy, operators can become an indispensable "sweet spot" in the industrial chain. Telecom has clearly seized this opportunity. China Mobile and China Unicom must also have relevant layouts and measures in this field.
So, how much share can telecom win in the new business brought by the low-altitude economy, and how will the three major operators compete and compete in the field of low-altitude economy? This is a new attraction in the future.