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5.5G Era, a Key Milestone for the Intelligent World

The implementation of 5G technology in the Middle East region
has been ongoing for over four years, resulting in the launch of
17 commercial networks with over 20 million 5G users, including
2.3 million home mobile broadband users and 57,000 business
users. The introduction of 5G has provided significant benefits to
the carriers, as new services and scenarios targeting consumers,
homes, and businesses have continued to emerge. Also, as the
industry's digitalization accelerates, the networks will face a
growing array of new requirements for diverse sets of industry-
specific digital use cases, leading to demands for new features to
bridge the functionality gaps in an immersive experience, industry
capability, and all-scenario IoT connections. Therefore, the telco
industry stakeholders have already agreed to the 5G evolution.

Huawei refers to the combination of wireless,
fixed and IP network evolution, ADN Level 4
and green development as the 5.5G era.

To ensure ubiquitous superior experience and efficiency in
operating a complex network while meeting the ICT low carbon
target, Huawei believes that aligning technology evolution in other
network domains, further developing the Autonomous Driving
Network (ADN) to a higher level, and fully adopting green ICT
development are essential. Huawei refers to the combination of
wireless, fixed and IP network evolution, ADN Level 4 and green
development as the 5.5G era.

The 5.5G wireless technology concept was first introduced by
Huawei in 2020, and 3GPP officially launched 5G-Advanced in An Jian
2021. 5.5G is now defined as the next evolution of 5G, and Huawei President of Huawei Carrier Business Group in
is working with 3GPP and partners to drive the 5.5G standards the Middle East and Central Asia Region
development. In 5.5G, new features, such as functions for better
uplink traffic, true real-time communication, and more harmonized
communication, will be introduced, enabling many digital use cases,
such as transmitting a large volume of high-resolution video images
in real-time without any quality degradation, making holographic
communication a reality, using wireless sensing technology for
road-Vehicle communication, and deploying passive-IoT devices
managing smart warehouse and logistic tracking, which will open
up new business opportunities for the carriers.

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