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Huawei Opens 5G Innovation & Experience Centre

in London

Huawei has launched its 5G Innovation and and showcase the real-life impact of 5G in and advances in healthcare. Jerry Wang,
Experience Centre in London to promote the UK and around the world. Visitors will CEO of Huawei UK, said: “With the opening
greater collaboration between businesses be able to experience extraordinary real- of our 5G Innovation and Experience
and innovators in the development of 5G time and interactive gaming, perform with Centre in London we, as a leader of 5G,
ecosystems. Huawei’s 5G Innovation their favorite bands with the help of virtual are taking another important step. What
and Experience Centre, a base for 5G and augmented reality and learn about the we have opened today will enable true
knowledge and skill-sharing, aims to endless future possibilities made real by 5G collaboration amongst UK businesses
enhance 5G cooperation across the UK technology, such as smart manufacturing and technologists and showcase the
huge potential of 5G applications for
both the private and business sectors.”
Huawei’s Q3 2019 results reported more
than 60 signed commercial contracts for
5G with leading global carriers, including
all major operators in the UK. Together
with customers and partners, Huawei will
speed up digital transformation across
various industry sectors worth trillions of
US dollars, such as public utilities, finance,
transportation and electricity. To mark the
occasion, Huawei is hosting a live-stream
panel discussion on the future of 5G. The
5G Innovation and Experience Centre sits
within Cocoon Global, one of Europe’s
largest co-working spaces, aimed at
bringing together the brightest startups
and facilitating the exchange of technology
ideas across cultures.

Huawei Placed as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for LTE Network
Infrastructure for the Third Successive Year

Huawei has been positioned as a Leader in between LTE and NR. The ongoing moves 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G, and eventually
the 2019 Magic Quadrant for LTE Network to phase out 2G and 3G means LTE will forging an efficient, coordinated LTE+NR
Infrastructure1 by Gartner, a world leading be the foundation network in the 5G target network. The ultimate goal is to
advisory and research firm. This is the era. User migration and increasing data help operators protect investment and
third successive year Huawei has been consumption will see a tenfold increase improve network resource utilization.
positioned highest and furthest right for in LTE traffic. Huawei has been actively 4G has the most mature ecosystem and
the Ability to Execute and Completeness promoting the LTE technology evolution cost-effective performance. In the next
of Vision in the Leaders Quadrant since and launched innovative multi-antenna few years, it will play an indispensable
2017. Huawei, as an industry leader in multi-sector solutions, such as TDD/FDD role in delivering cost-effective voice,
LTE networks, firmly believes that LTE+NR Massive MIMO, TDD/FDD 8T8R, and 4T6S. data, and IoT services and helping global
combo will be the target network in the 5G These solutions are set to continuously operators fulfill the social responsibility of
era and LTE will remain the primary source improve spectral efficiency and enhance connecting the unconnected and building
of revenue for operators over the next few the LTE foundation network. In addition, a fully connected intelligent world. Huawei
years. This belief drives Huawei to keep Huawei is committed to building a will continue to collaborate with operators
investing heavily in LTE R&D to improve simplified 5G network, leveraging and industry partners to further innovate in
network efficiency, simplify the network software and hardware solutions such as LTE to embrace the next golden decade of
structure, and enhance the coordination SingleRAN Pro and CloudAIR to converge the LTE industry.

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