Huawei Promotes Open Site with Partners at Global MBBF 2019, Targeting Greater Openness

[Zurich, Switzerland, October 15, 2019] At the 2019 Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF 2019), Huawei held the 3rd Open Site Industry Roundtable to promote policy support for site approval simplification and site ecosystem development while opening up necessary devices information. This move aims to help industry partners design public utility facilities that will accommodate 5G base stations.

With the launch of the Open Site Initiative at this year's MWC event, Huawei has collaborated with multiple partners to jointly provide 5G sites quickly and efficiently. Major achievements have been made in promoting site approval simplification, as well as developing open 5G pole site standards, which are essential for preparing public resources for long-term 5G development.

Huawei held the 3rd Open Site Industry Roundtable during MBBF 2019

Growing 5G network density and 5G site acquisition challenges represent one of the pressing contradictions affecting large-scale 5G deployment. Besides, every US$100 that operators invest in base station construction, US$60 is spent on site acquisition, civil work, power supply, and other auxiliaries. With this in mind, Huawei launched the Open Site initiative to convert utility poles into telecom poles, helping operators with massive 5G site acquisition and optimized site costs.

Under the Open Site initiative framework, Huawei works with partners to convert utility facilities into telecom facilities from policy-level, standard-level and ecosystem-level. Policy support has been implemented in many 5G-leading countries and regions to promote social facilities sharing and site approval simplification. Standards are taking shape in Europe and China to facilitate large-scale pole site deployment with reduced costs. Huawei also has innovated a series of simplified solutions, and released a 5G smart pole design reference to enrich the community. Hundreds of thousands of potential sites are now being successfully developed.

At MBBF 2019, Huawei further develops its cross-industry partnership in collaboration with tower companies, pole manufacturers, integrators and policy organizations. Piloting more 5G smart poles and developing local 5G pole standard have been agreed. Huawei will also open up its device informations to global partners, enabling them to produce 5G poles customized for local conditions.

Hao Yingtao, President of Huawei's Wireless Site Domain, said, "Everyone is a winner with the Open Site industry. 5G creates enormous value to our societies, and social resources provide tremendous 5G sites. Huawei will continue to work with partners to perfect the ecosystem and seek more efficient infrastructure that accelerates 5G construction and reduces overall social costs."

The 2019 Global Mobile Broadband Forum is attended by more than 1,500 people from operators, industries, vertical markets, standard and industry organizations, as well as media and analyst firms, from all over the world. Demonstrations on site showcase the latest 5G technology solutions, commercial cases and the rich applications including 5G cloud AR/VR, live 8K broadcast over 5G, and machine vision and remote control powered by 5G, etc. For more details, please visit: www.huawei.com/en/press-events/events/global-mbb-forum-2019/