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Zain KSA and Huawei Revolutionize Connectivity in Saudi Arabia with
Advanced FWA Solutions

Saudi Vision 2030 is an ambitious plan customers will require an estimated The second segment, users without
aimed at empowering small and mid- 500Mbps to fully support these home broadband or those requiring
sized enterprises while enhancing services. a lower-speed network, is served
the quality of life for Saudi citizens. A by Zain KSA’s new FWA Lite solution.
key pillar of this vision is the provision To meet the evolving demands of Utilizing RedCap CPEs, this solution
of high-quality broadband access its users, Zain KSA, in collaboration offers downlink rates of up to
across the Kingdom. with Huawei, developed the FWA² 150Mbps, providing a 30% better
solution tailored for three distinct user user experience than 4G WTTx, while
Traditionally, optical fiber deployment segments. consuming 50% less power than
in Saudi Arabia faced challenges due standard 5G CPEs. Zain KSA plans to
to the extreme heat, often exceeding The first segment, home users, migrate 4G WTTx users to 5G FWA
50°C in the summer. To overcome this, benefits from the FWA Pro solution. this year, with the solution also ideal
Zain KSA adopted 5G Fixed Wireless This innovative networking model for extending home broadband to
Access (FWA) for home users and combines a single wireless CPE with unconnected regions in the Gulf.
small businesses. FWA requires only a a single fiber per room to support
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) multiple applications. Its deployment The third segment, business users
device to convert 5G signals into features extremely large antenna such as retail outlets, warehouses,
high-performance Wi-Fi. arrays (ELAAs), carrier aggregation and banks undergoing digital
technologies, and high-performance transformation, is targeted by the new
Since its introduction, FWA has seen 5G CPEs. The solution ensures a stable FWA Business Solution. This solution is
remarkable success among Zain’s ultra-high downlink speed of over designed to expand the super uplink
Saudi users, with usage doubling 300Mbps and latency under 10ms, service market for SMEs, offering
annually since 2020. Currently, 10% of supporting 8K video streaming, large- deterministic assurance with 5.5G
FWA users connect up to 10 devices scale cloud gaming, home security high-bandwidth private lines. It
per CPE, leveraging new services such monitoring, and VR sports for multiple guarantees uplink rates between
as Extended Reality (XR), gaming, concurrent users. 50Mbps and 1Gbps, with latency under
and IoT. By 2025, it is anticipated that 20ms and 99.99% reliability.

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