China Broadcasting Network (CBN) has become the country’s fourth commercial MNO, just over a year after the company started trials of its 5G infrastructure. It is an offshoot of the state TV provider of the same name, which owns 51% of the shares. Other investors are State Grid Information & Telecommunication Group, Alibaba Venture Capital Management, Guangdong Radio Television Network and Beijing All Media and Culture Group. The stage was set in June 2019 when the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) doled out commercial 5G licences to the three major telcos, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, as well as CBN. The regulator wanted to have four nominally competing operators, even if the overall 5G roll-out…