China has launched the world’s first commercial 10-Gigabit (10G) broadband network in Sunan County, Hebei Province, with a significant deployment in Xiong’an New Area, a high-tech city being developed as a smart metropolis. The initiative, a collaboration between Huawei and state-owned China Unicom, went live on 20 April 2025.
how is it the world’s first when there are several ISPs that have been offering 10g fiber for the past year
I have no idea, they’re saying they’re basing the deployment on Huawei 50G networks, sooo I think this is either the author who didn’t understand the assignment or a terrible translation?
Edit: well it seems like it’s 10G as in cellular. Every article is absolutely trash so I searched in Chinese and found this article (translated) which compares it to 5G and mentions the use of new wavelengths to transmit the data
Past year? Iint7 (Switzerland) has been offering symmetric 10Gb to home users for almost a decade and their flagship home package has been 25Gbps for a few years now. Multiple ISPs in the UK have offered symmetric 10Gb for 6-7 years, ditto some American and Singaporean ISPs. I’ve had 10Gb on tap for years now. Funny how this clickbait untruthful article also slips in that the product isn’t even symmetric, having a 10:1 down/up ratio. The 10Gb from my own ISP is being upgraded to symmetric 50Gbps later this year.
god when will i get fiber??
Its the worlds first in China*
Cause china …and we’re on lemmy …so yea
Another article is also at the top about bird drones that are going to turn the drone world on its head.
No. It’s because it’s cellular 10G. The article is terrible though
Ah, that makes it interesting. Since the article didn’t state this… I’m still calling it lemmy upvote cause China.
But thats cool though, wonder what the range is on this.
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense because even in the article it talks about other nations already having it and china trying to rollout faster.