5G is coming
The number of 5G connections is predicted to reach 1.1 billion globally by 2025. 5G will create a new era of connectivity and productivity - an era of partnerships and integration.
In the 5G era, everything will be connected, all industries will have digitally transformed, and mobile communication will have changed the way we live and become the basis for socioeconomic development.
GSMA states the number of 5G connections is predicted to reach 1.1 billion globally by 2025, with one-third of the world’s population connected to 5G networks.
Vertical industries and the ICT industry will more closely integrate and new services will emerge. To help achieve this, Huawei founded the 5G Automotive Alliance and 5G Smart Manufacturing Alliance. To meet the diverse and specialized requirements of vertical industries, Huawei and operators such as China Mobile have established partner associations, formulated standards, and built industry ecosystems to research and promote 5G technology in industry.
Du Yeqing, Huawei’s head of 5G Industry Development, believes that cross-industry collaboration will be the cornerstone of realizing 5G. As such, Huawei has teamed up with industry partners in various domains, including the Internet of Vehicles, smart manufacturing, smart grids, and UAVs, to advance 5G.
Huawei’s Wireless XLabs recently published Top Ten 5G Use Cases, which analyzes the business value of 5G. At the 2017 Global Mobile Broadband Forum, Ding Yun, President of Huawei Carrier BG, discussed how carriers can choose and incubate services based on their own strategies, and quickly build up capabilities and attain future business success in 5G.
In the 5G era, operators’ primary challenge will be figuring out how to use mobile networks to meet the development needs of connected society and connected industry. According to Deng Taihua, President of Wireless Network Product Line of Huawei, the three most important basic network capabilities in the 5G era will be SingleRAN, Mobile Cloud, and Wireless Intelligence. They will help operators build mobile networks with a wide range of service capabilities for 5G in 2020 and quickly seize new commercial opportunities at low cost.
China is leading the way for using mid-band spectrum for 5G networks. Its three major carriers are uniting the upstream and downstream sectors of the industry chain and entering the third phase of 5G technical research and testing. China aims to become the first country in the world to launch a 5G network commercially in 2020.
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