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Huawei hosted at MWC Shanghai 2024 the Global Launch of 5G-A Pioneers Program. The event, themed “Driving shared success with 5G-A,” brought together pioneering 5G operators from around the world, including China’s “Big Three” and HKT, du, and Oman Telecommunications. At the event, they discussed how to drive the high-quality development of 5G-A networks and seize opportunities from the upcoming intelligent world to create new market space for growth.

5G has become the fastest developing generation of mobile communications technology. The pioneering operators who first adopted 5G have all achieved phased business success. The first standards release for 5G-Advanced—3GPP Release-18—was also officially frozen on 28 June 2024 in Shanghai. This is a key milestone for the 5G industry, as it will make 2024 the first year of commercial 5G-A deployment.

5G-A and the 5G-A Pioneers Program: Driving Towards a More Connected Future

David Wang, Huawei’s Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, delivered a keynote speech at the global launch titled “5G-A: Paving the Way for Shared Success.”

In this speech, he noted, “5G-A will be the path forward. It will protect vested investment while creating new business opportunities by expanding business boundaries. As we look towards 2030, the industry as a whole will need to ramp up efforts to reinforce 5G-A technologies and support the healthy development of 5G. This is how we will ensure a prosperous 5G industry in the long-term and make the world a better place.”

He added: “Huawei looks forward to working hand-in-hand with the industry to build healthy 5G-A ecosystems, upgrade 5G-A standards, and share in the benefits of 5G-A development. Together, we will bring the intelligent world into reality, faster.”

Also at the event, Huawei and its operator partners jointly announced the 5G-A Pioneers Program and the six specific consensuses they had reached during the launch ceremony. These consensuses will maximise the value of advanced 5G-A capabilities, promote 5G-A development, and further advance the industry by promoting Pioneer Operators, Pioneer Cities, Business Model Upgrades, High-quality Networks, Service Innovation, and Thriving Ecosystems.

Moving forward, Huawei will continue to support operators’ innovation efforts in networks, services, and ecosystems, and help them build differentiated competitiveness in the 5G-A era. Its ultimate goal is to promote high-quality industry development and enable the digital and intelligent transformation for a better and more intelligent world.

This year will mark the first year of commercial 5G-A, and F5G-A gigabit optical network deployment has already begun. Synergies across networks, cloud, and intelligence are set to give rise to pervasive intelligent applications and increasingly diverse user experiences.

Huawei and its operator partners jointly announce the 5G-A Pioneers Program.

Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, Huawei will dive into exciting topics at this year’s MWC Shanghai, like how to amplify 5G’s success in the 5G-A era and how to tap into the potential of operator revenue growth to bring us even faster to the intelligent world.

For more information about 5G-A and the 5G-A Pioneers Program, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwcs2024.

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