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Stride to 5.5G era, extending business frontiers

At MWC Barcelona 2023, Huawei
showcases leading technologies, new
business opportunities, and industry
progress in the 5.5G era. The company
aims to work with carriers and industry
partners around the world to further the
evolution of ICT infrastructure, lay the
foundation for the 5.5G era, and build
on the success of 5G for even greater
prosperity. At the event, Huawei presents
five major characteristics of the 5.5G era:
10 Gbit/s experience, all-scenario IoT,
integrated sensing and communication,
Level 4 autonomous driving network, and
green ICT. Technological innovation in
the 5.5G era will bring operators a 10-fold
increase in network performance over 5G
in terms of speeds, connections, accuracy
and reliability, efficiency, and intelligence. higher capacity and coverage, making it a era, but in the 5.5G era, services with both
5.5G can help operators open up five new prime choice for carriers pursuing deeper immersive and interactive experiences will
business frontiers and drive a 100-fold 5G coverage. Huawei has also convened become commonplace. With continuous
increase in new business opportunities. the 5G Business Success Summit at breakthroughs in device technologies and
At the event, Huawei Carrier BG President MWC. Peng Song, President of Huawei's a boom in content, the number of online
Li Peng, delivered a keynote speech on ICT Strategy & Marketing, delivered a users of immersive and interactive services
reimagining 5G business, reinforcing 5G keynote speech titled "Diverse Paths to 5G in the 5.5G era is expected to exceed 1
coverage, and reinventing 5G technologies. Monetization, Accelerating 5G Business billion, a 100-fold increase.
In his speech, Li shared insights into user Success". In his speech, he noted that Frontier 2: Further enabling industry
experience and recent 5G development. He the achievements made by 5G in its first digitalization
said that the industry must work together three years are equivalent to those that As 5G private networks become increasingly
to accelerate 5G prosperity. He stated that 4G made in its first five years, and that capable, their scope of application will
5G has developed rapidly since it entered leading operators are already celebrating expand by 10 times, and the value of each
commercial use three years ago. By the the success of the first round of 5G connection in key applications will increase
end of 2022, over 1 billion 5G users had development, which has instilled a sense of by even more than that. We predict that the
watched high-definition streams of major certainty and confidence in the industry. 5G number of 5G private networks deployed
international sports events, and more than will thus sustain this success if its value can will increase from 10,000 today to 1 million
10 million households had access to 5G be further unleashed in ToC, ToH, and ToB by 2030. Fiber connections are extending
broadband. As 5G network capabilities sectors. During his speech, Mr. Peng noted from homes and enterprises to production
improve, users are able to watch videos in that the global user penetration rate of 5G in lines and even production equipment.
higher definition and from more viewpoints, its first three years amounts to that of 4G in Frontier 3: Cloud applications entering a
creating a new standard for next-generation its first five years. Operators reporting over new era, creating new opportunities for
experiences. 70% of users are already 20% 5G user penetration during the first network connectivity
willing to pay for better 5G experiences. Li round of deployment have seen significant Cloud-based and multi-cloud enterprise
also highlighted that deeper 5G coverage growth in mobile revenue. In the meantime, applications are becoming a new trend.
is helping carriers better monetize devices, content, experience, and business The cloud applications will need real-time,
experience. This is well evidenced by models are diversifying as more operators reliable, and easily-accessable connectivity,
the world's top 20 carriers in 5G network and partners embrace 5G. This is evidence bringing new opportunities to transmission
rollout, who achieved significantly higher of a market shift from risk-based to networks, whether they are between edge
ARPU and revenue growth than the global revenue-based decision-making for even cloud nodes, between edge cloud nodes
average last year. Innovation in 5G base more assurance of business success. and central clouds, or between enterprises
station equipment would also be required Frontier 1: Explosion in services with and the cloud.
to provide deeper coverage. Along this line, immersive and interactive experiences Frontier 4: Cellular networks cover all IoT
in 2022, Huawei launched MetaAAU, its 3D applications, such as 3D online malls, applications and passive IoT enables 100
third-generation AAU for 5G base stations. 24K VR gaming, and glasses-free 3D video, billion connections
Compared with its previous generation will become mainstream. Services with Passive IoT technology is extending
counterpart, MetaAAU offers about 30% immersive experiences emerged in the 5G mobile connectivity from high-speed active

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