Huawei and ZTE are developing and releasing 5G- Advanced system services, strengthening the Chinese telecoms giants ‘ position as the world leader in smart communications. The Mobile World Congress ( MWC ) exhibition, which took place in Shanghai from June 26 through June 28, featured the new technologies.
Compared with regular 5G telecommunications, 5G- Advanced ( abbreviated as 5G- A and also known as 5.5G), “represents a 10- slide improvement in performance across the board … as well as substantial reductions in total system power consumption”, according to Counterpoint, a technology market research organization.
According to industry analysts, 5G- A offers excellent positioning and timing in addition to significantly faster uplink and downlink speeds.
” 2024 marks the first year for corporate 5G and the introduction of AI into a wider range of equipment.” The mobile AI era is on the horizon, where intelligent services will be pervasive”, said David Wang ( Wang Tao ), Huawei’s executive director and chairman of the company’s ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, in an MWC address.
Wang added that the first standards discharge for 5G- A, known as 3GPP Release- 18, was actually frozen on June 28 in Shanghai, and that …” business 5.5G terminals are then ready to face the planet”. 3GPP stands for 3rd Generation Partner Project, a group of requirements- building companies that develop methods for wireless telecommunications.
Chinese mobile telecoms providers, including China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Broadnet, are both rolling out 5G-A or making plans to do so.
China Mobile hopes to use the systems in 300 cities in China, according to a report from LightReading, and that it will have a large-scale deployment in the next two years.
China Broadnet has even launched 5G- A service, while China Unicom has started a captain job. China Telecom has released an” activity plan,” but it has not provided a start date.
The Middle East has been the site of the first 5G-A installations abroad. In Shanghai, Huawei launched its international 5G- A Pioneers Program, which includes du, the ( United Arab ) Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company and Oman Telecommunications.
Zain, a portable telecoms provider in Saudi Arabia, launched 5G-A companies last year and plans to cover 18 towns nationwide by the end of the decade.
Mobile AI applications on display in Shanghai included automatic driving, flying taxis, medical help, hotel management, test monitoring, sports commentary and algorithmic detection.
China Mobile and another Chinese companies plan to build AI techniques for state, public services and business enterprises, including big speech models for a range of industries.
The organizer of the MWC events, Mats Granryd, director general of the Groupe Spécial Mobile ( GSM) Association, stated to the audience that China’s growing presence in the world of large language models makes its mobile telecom carriers crucial to the development of AI.
Although Chinese models are essential to the creation of new mobile AI applications, they may not be as developed as American models.
Xiao Ming, president of overseas operations at ZTE Corporation, told Light Reading:” Years ago, we were the first in the industry to combine AI technology with 5G energy- saving technology…
” With the advent of large model technology, ZTE has applied these models to improve R&, D and operational efficiency. Our self-developed Nebula programming large model, which is ranked among the best in HumanEval, [a benchmark for comparing the performance of large language models ]…
” At our Nanjing Binjiang Intelligent Manufacturing Base, we actively employ large industrial models to create a new intelligent computing factory, optimizing costs, efficiency, energy consumption and quality to the extreme …”.
ZTE is working with over 1, 000 potential customers across 15 industries. Among other things, the company has created AI models for managing water resources, identifying gas leaks and road hazards, and generating emergency response plans.
China’s “low- altitude economy” was also featured at the exhibition in Shanghai. Now a government priority, it uses drones, electric vertical take- off and landing (VTOL ) flying taxis, the country’s Beidou satellite- based navigation system, low- Earth orbit satellites and airborne and surface mobile telecom terminals to deliver products and services.
China Telecom demonstrated a drone control system made up of Beidou and a 4G/5G airborne terminal, but the business’s development requires a faster and more accurate 5G-A. From delivery services to surveying and mapping, there is huge economic potential nationwide.
Shenzhen, the capital city that includes Beijing and the port city of Tianjin, plans to establish the national standard with the creation of more than 5, 000 related businesses over the next three years, according to China Daily, which was the first Chinese city to pass legislation to support the development of a low-altitude economy.
There is potential overseas, particularly in those regions of the Global South where American alarm bells are neither heard nor heeded. More accurate than GPS, has more satellites, and far more monitoring stations.
Although US sanctions apply to Chinese drones, visitors from more than 100 nations came to Shenzhen for the 8th Drone World Congress and the 9th Shenzhen International UAV Expo to view and purchase goods made by about 500 Chinese companies.
The low-altitude economy already appears to be another next-generation, tech-driven market where China is poised to take the global lead, despite the US government’s focus being on the military’s effects of drones.
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