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12 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2024

How Carriers Can

Boost Revenues

with All-scenario

FWA

Wang Peng
Global 5G Marketing and
Solution Sales, Huawei

As 5G is deployed at scale in more countries around the world, the
potential for growth in home, enterprise, and IoT scenarios is excellent,
offering higher ARPU, better pipe monetization opportunities, and a
superior user experience.

FWA: Evolution from copper lines to optical fiber
Unconstrained by physical lines, wireless connections are more
flexible and easier to use than wired connections. The rapid evolution
of wireless technologies has boosted the capacity of FWA from
satisfying basic connectivity needs to replacing copper lines with
even higher speeds. FWA has great potential to compete with FTTx,
with the peak rate of a 5G site at a single frequency band already
comparable to wired 10G PON.

If carriers use 60% of the resources in 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands to
develop FWA, the peak FWA capacity of a single site can reach 8.6
Gbit/s. TDD spectrum distribution for continuous high bandwidth is
a common approach taken in many countries that enables 5G FWA
capacity to be comparable to that of wired 10G PON.

Shen Li
5G FWA Expert
Huawei

Figure 1: Peak capacity evolution of FBB and FWA cells

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