5G to Boost Asia Pacific's Digital Economy Development
Huawei is enabling sustainable development of a digital economy in the Asia Pacific region by leveraging on 5G. The company also seeks to help carriers across the Asia Pacific region to deploy 5G faster and fully leverage the advantages of 5G.
Announced at the 5th Huawei Asia-Pacific Innovation Day, the conference also saw more than 200 representatives from government, industry and academia across the region get together to discuss 5G technologies and applications.
“5G is arriving at the right time. More specifically, it can provide wide coverage, large bandwidth, and low latency on the basis of traditional connections. It can also provide network slicing for different applications. This new feature makes it adaptable to a variety of complex industrial applications. With the advancement of 5G, there will be many 5G-enabled applications that will change the world. At the same time, 5G, AI, IoT and cloud are improving everyday life and nature, making the world a better place,” said Huawei’s board director and president of the Institute of Strategic Research, William Xu.
Asia Pacific is leading the world in terms of 5G deployment, with South Korea being the first country to commercial the use of the technology.
Xu said since the rollout of 5G in early April, the number of subscribers have exceeded two million.
Three major carriers in China, namely China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, have also deployed 5G networks in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu.
To date, Huawei has secured over 50 5G commercial contracts worldwide and shipped over 200,000 5G base stations.
Meanwhile, at the event, China Mobile Sichuan and Huawei launched a 5G stereo-coverage network to achieve seamless 5G coverage.
Other than carriers, Huawei also partners with industry players to demonstrate various innovative industry applications, including 5G+VR, 5G+8K video, 5G telemedicine and more. All these indicate the infinite potential applications of 5G in the era of commercial use.
Huawei is helping carriers across Asia Pacific to deploy 5G faster
Asia-Pacific is leading the world in terms of 5G deployment. South Korea is the world's first country that has realized large-scale commercial use of 5G. Since the rollout of 5G in early April, the number of 5G subscribers in this country exceeded 2 million. South Korea has become the global benchmark for the commercial use of 5G. China has built a large-scale 5G network for pilot commercial use. The three major carriers have deployed 5G networks in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Chengdu. The tested downlink rate is as high as 1 Gbps, which means it takes only seconds to download an HD movie in 1080P.
5G is becoming a reality. Around the world, 35 carriers in 20 countries have launched 5G and 33 other countries have distributed 5G spectrum.
Huawei has secured over fifty 5G commercial contracts worldwide and shipped over 200,000 Massive MIMO AAUs. With rich exaperience in 5G pilot commercial use and active exploration of 5G innovative applications, Huawei is committed to providing the safest and most advanced 5G products and solutions, as well as application scenarios. Huawei seeks to enable carriers in the Asia-Pacific region to deploy 5G faster and fully leverage the advantages of 5G. The aim is to empower numerous industries, improve social efficiency and accelerate industrial digitization.
With the launch of 5G stereo-coverage network, there will be more 5G-enabled innovative applications
At the event, China Mobile Sichuan and Huawei launched a 5G stereo-coverage network, which consists of a basic coverage layer, a capacity experience layer and indoor coverage for high-value scenarios to achieve seamless coverage of 5G. In addition, Huawei has partnered with carriers and other industry partners to demonstrate various innovative industry applications, including 5G+VR, 5G+8K video, 5G+drones, 5G telemedicine and 5G ambulances. All these indicate the infinite potential applications of 5G in the era of commercial use.
Guests from government, industry and academia gave speeches from various perspectives, such as policy-making and regulation and industry digitization. They talked about how innovative technologies can support the development of the cultural industry and natural ecological protection and shared typical cases on how "5G+AI"can empower numerous industries.
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Helping vulnerable groups, protecting the earth, and realizing the harmonious development between man and nature are issues that concern everyone in society. New technologies like 5G, cloud, IoT and AI are shaping a world where all things will be sensing, connected and intelligent. The intelligent world is coming to all individuals, all companies, and all industries. Technologies are making the world a better place.
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