Last year, Shenzhen proposed to take the lead in entering the new era of 5G-A, and 5G-A shined ...... at the Hangzhou Asian GamesAt this year's 2024 Mobile World Congress, "Beyond 5G" has become one of the six highlights. As an intermediate stage of the transition from 5G to 6G, 5G-A has attracted attention from all parties.
Against this backdrop, operators are accelerating innovation and commercial opportunities brought about by 5G-A, deploying 5G-A commercialization and actively participating in 5G-A construction.
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5G-A expands new application scenarios
With the development of 5G, it has changed from entering the industry in the past to chasing 5G in applications. As an upgraded version of 5G technology, 5G-A has achieved significant improvements in network speed, latency, and number of connections, which can meet new applications such as two-way holographic communication and virtual-reality interaction, and build application scenarios for the Internet of Everything.
For example, in the field of autonomous driving, 5G-A will provide more reliable and fast data transmission services, which will improve the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems. In the field of smart education, 5G-A will provide strong network support for the development of new education models such as advanced education and distance education; In the field of smart cities, 5G-A networks can help realize intelligent and refined urban management, improve urban operation efficiency and residents' quality of life.
Operators are racing to deploy 5G-A
Technological progress has led to the gradual maturity of 5G-A technology, which has also brought technological innovation and commercial opportunities to the development of the industry. The three major operators are promoting the commercial development of 5G-A.
China Telecom actively explores 5G-A innovative technologies, and has led more than 30 3GPP international standards in super frequency fusion, dynamic frame sharing, and mid- and low-band co-construction and sharing, and has formed more than 600 patents. Actively promoting the commercial implementation of 5G-A, nearly 100 stations of three-carrier aggregation have been opened in Xi'an Datang Sleepless City, Datang Furong Garden, Muslim Street and other places, so that users can enjoy live broadcast, high-definition**, cloud gaming and other services.
China Mobile said at MWC2024 that it will strive to achieve full commercial use of 5G-A by the end of 2026.
China Unicom has completed the 5G-A large-scale networking demonstration, realizing continuous coverage of three key scenes: the financial street in the center of Beijing, the long-distance telephone building of the historical building, and the Beijing Workers' Stadium, a large-scale comprehensive stadium.
The new features of 5G-A bring new opportunities for 5G development
Li Peng, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of ICT Sales & Service, said at MWC2024 that 2024 is the first year of 5G-A commercialization, and combined with the development of cloud and AI technologies, there is great potential for operators' business growth. It can be seen that in the future, 5G-A is expected to create unprecedented business value for the industry. For operators, they should seize the opportunity to rush for development.
In terms of network development foundation, operators should give full play to their own advantages, adhere to the coordinated development of high, medium and low frequencies, build high-quality networks, and lay a solid foundation for industry development.
In terms of standards-assisted application development, operators can actively participate in the formulation of standards on the basis of the previous standardization work, and continue to focus on the promotion of key core technologies of 5G-A.
In terms of applications, operators should focus on user needs, make up for key scenarios and capability shortcomings, and make industrial layouts for 5G-A value scenarios to achieve breakthroughs and innovations.
In terms of cooperation to build a good ecosystem, carriers should adhere to the concept of open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results, build a 5G-A "ecosystem" based on their own cloud-network advantages, and empower each other and innovate with ecosystem partners to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.