(Yicai Global) June 18 -- More than a hundred fifth-generation wireless network base stations have been completed at 17 Winter Olympic venues in Beijing and Yanqing, promising high-speed internet services even in challenging mountainous areas, the Beijing Daily reported today.

Telecoms mast builder China Tower has worked with the country’s three main mobile phone carriers as well as communications firms Beijing Capitel and Beijing Justtop Network Communication to develop the mobile network infrastructure for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics.

“Two years after the initial on-site survey, we have finished building the mobile communications infrastructure for the Winter Olympics,” the report quoted Cheng Jiwei, deputy general manager of China Tower’s Beijing unit, as saying.

Most of the construction work started from scratch, and the terrain was complex, with weak network coverage. The alpine skiing venues are located deep in the mountains, which had no mobile signal.

The infrastructure includes 31 5G macro base stations in the Beijing and Yanqing competition areas, as well as three sets of 5G distributed antenna systems at the National Alpine Ski Center, the National Snowmobile and Bobsleigh Center and the Yanqing Olympic Village.

Forty-nine base stations have been built along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway, and 32 along the Beijing-Chongli Expressway and its five tunnels, Cheng said, adding that this means athletes and spectators will be able to access high-speed internet on their way to and from venues. 

Editor: Tom Litting