CHENGDU: 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, here, the conference also saw more than 200 representatives from government, industry and academia across the region got 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.