Huawei's Li Peng: Stimulate new growth and lead the first year of 5G-A commercialization

[ Barcelona , ​​Spain , February 25, 2024 ] Today, Huawei held the " 5G Beyond Growth Summit " during MWC24 Barcelona . At the meeting, Li Peng, senior vice president of Huawei and president of ICT Sales and Services, shared how operators can achieve commercial success in the 5G era and explained how 5G - A will further stimulate network potential and create new growth opportunities.

5G commercial success is happening. In the five years since its commercial use, the number of global 5G users has exceeded 1.5 billion , equivalent to the nine-year development of 4G . At the same time, 5G accounts for 20 % of global mobile users, contributing 30 % of mobile traffic and 40 % of mobile business revenue.

" 2024 is the first year of 5GA commercialization . Combined with the development of cloud and AI technologies , operators have great potential for business growth." To this end, Li Peng pointed out that global operators can seize four strategic opportunities.

Li Peng, Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales and Services at Huawei

High-quality network is the foundation for business success

High-quality networks can support rapid user migration and experience improvement, and reap traffic dividends. More and more operators have announced strategic goals to build the best 5G networks . For example, Middle Eastern operators have built a nationwide Massive MIMO network. The high-quality experience has promoted the great success of 5G FWA services , and the number of household connections has approached 3 million, becoming an important engine for operators' revenue growth.

Multi-dimensional experience monetization to fully tap the value of every bit of the network

Currently, more than 20% of 5G operators around the world use rate billing. Thai operators have released 5G hotspot acceleration packages that support users to order on demand and in time, increasing ARPU by about 23 % . Chinese operators have launched an uplink experience guarantee package for online anchors, making the live broadcast experience more high-definition and smooth. The package has been welcomed by anchors, and the ARPU value has increased by more than 70%.

Li Peng delivered an opening speech at the summit

New businesses continue to emerge to support future-oriented sustainable growth

New services such as new calls, cloud phones and naked-eye 3D for consumers are becoming more and more popular. New call users are happy to use value-added features such as "personal virtual image" and are more willing to pay for real-time experiences such as "one-stop car insurance claims".

5G is also being widely adopted by enterprise users. In China, 5G private networks have been commercialized in more than 50,000 use cases in more than 50 industries. And 5GA 's new capabilities, such as deterministic latency, precise positioning, and passive IoT, will create more opportunities for operators' B2B market.

Generative AI drives the mobile industry towards comprehensive intelligence

IDC predicts that AI mobile phone shipments will reach 170 million units in 2024, accounting for 15% of global smartphone shipments. The next generation of AI mobile phones will have more powerful storage, display and imaging capabilities, and work together with AIGC applications to generate hundreds of billions of GB of content, bringing new growth opportunities to operators.

Li Peng said that Huawei is willing to work with operators to fully unleash the potential of 5G and 5G-A networks and stimulate new growth .

MWC24 Barcelona will be held in Spain from February 26 to February 29. Huawei's exhibition area is located in the 1H50 exhibition area of ​​Hall 1 of Fira Gran Via. 2024 is the first year of 5G-A commercialization. Huawei will work together with global operators and partners to promote "network cloud intelligence" collaborative innovation, promote the in-depth development of digital transformation, prosper the industry ecosystem, accelerate the 5G business cycle, and embrace a more prosperous 5G-A era. For more details, please refer to: https://carrier.huawei.com/cn/events/mwc2024