Global tech giant Huawei has called upon all industry players to prepare on all fronts so that they can move faster towards the 5.5G era and eventually build a better, intelligent world together.
David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the Board and Chairman of ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, said this while delivering a keynote address at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum which began in Bangkok on Tuesday.
"With the intelligent world fast approaching, the rapid changes we are set to experience will all be accompanied by increasing requirements for digital infrastructure. The next milestone we must hit on the path to the intelligent world is 5.5G. 5.5G will deliver 10 Gbit/s experiences, support hundreds of billions of connections, and help us achieve native intelligence," he said.
Wang emphasized that after two years of concerted efforts across the industry, 5.5G has seen huge progress and three things have become clear.
"First, the standardization of 5.5G has been initiated and is on the right track, making it more than just a vision. Second, the industry has made breakthroughs in key technologies for 5.5G, and ultra-large bandwidth and ELAA can now deliver 10 Gbit/s experience.
"Third, the industry has a clear vision for the IoT landscape. Three types of 5.5G-enabled IoT technologies supported by 5.5G, namely NB-IoT, RedCap, and passive IoT, are developing rapidly and will support numerous IoT connections," he said.
The communications industry, Wang said, is constantly evolving. "5.5G has been kicked into high gear. Looking ahead, our task is to tackle these five new areas – standards, spectrum, products, ecosystems, and applications. Together, let's stride to 5.5G and build a better, intelligent world."
The Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2022 is hosted by Huawei, together with its industry partners, GSMA and GTI.
This annual forum gathers mobile network carriers, vertical industry leaders, and ecosystem partners from around the world to discuss how to make 5G a commercial success and other hot topics like green development, intelligence, and 5G evolution.
It may be mentioned that in December 2021, telecom regulator BTRC launched the initial 5G network in Bangladesh in collaboration with state-owned mobile operator Teletalk.
But the initial coverage remains extremely limited, extending only to the Prime Minister's Office, Parliament, Secretariat, Bangabandhu Museum on Dhanmondi 32, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth place Tungipara in Gopalganj, and the National Martyrs' Memorial in Savar.
The country, however, has big ambitions with 5G and its expanded capabilities in the near future, as coverage expands. Till now, it has partnered with Huawei in bringing 5G to Bangladesh.