At the 4G/5G International
Conference 2018 in Hanoi, Huawei outlined the path to a 5G Era for
Vietnam. Speaking at the conference on “Paving the Way for 5G in
Vietnam”, Dr. Mohamed Madkour, Vice President of Huawei Global Wireless
Network Marketing, highlighted the value that 5G will bring to Vietnam
in terms of enhancing people’s lives, improving businesses and driving
economic growth. He also emphasized that expanding and evolving LTE
network and its derivatives, 4G/4.5G, together with exploring new
segments like home broadband, enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT)
are the first steps on the 5G transformative road.
At the 4G/5G International Conference
2018 in Hanoi, Huawei outlined the path to a 5G Era for Vietnam,
and emphasized expanding and evolving LTE network and its derivatives
are the first steps on the 5G transformative road.
Dr. Madkour underscored the importance of investing in the network
and new business models today to be prepared for a 5G Era. With early 5G
standards and technologies now established, we will see commercial 5G
networks deployed widely across the globe by 2020. 5G brings new
opportunities for operators to deliver new 5G services and applications
to consumers and businesses across vertical industries.
While it will take some time to develop 5G networks, operators in
Vietnam can start building capabilities to support future 5G services.
Operators can act now, incubating new services and building new
capabilities based on 4G networks. Dr. Madkour further explained that
expanding and evolving LTE and its derivatives, 4G+4.5G, is paving the
way to 5G. Operators can now deploy 5G commercial networks with LTE
continuous evolution.
Dr. Madkour said: “LTE is now defined as the fundamental network for
all connected businesses. It is often referred to as LTE4ALL, with the
capability to enable all types of services, including voice, data,
video, Fixed-Wireless Access (FWA) as well as new IoT applications. This
paves the way for operators to explore new business opportunities
beyond consumer mobility, for example fuelling digitization in homes and
enterprises.”
To maximize customers’ network value, Huawei proposed a series of
business solutions for smooth evolution to 5G. Huawei’s CloudAIR 2.0
features new technology to dynamically increase spectrum sharing and
support LTE and 5G New Radio (NR) on the same spectrum, enabling
operators to monetize their spectrum assets and improve network ROI.
Huawei’s innovative site solutions such as Three-Star (PoleStar,
RuralStar, TubeStar) facilitates more efficient use of sites enabling
greater coverage, which is a challenge in 5G era. For antennas, Huawei
proposed to modernize all sub 3GHz bands using a single antenna to free
tower space for 5G Massive MIMO NR Unite.
“Huawei is committed to working together with government and telecom
operators in this market to drive digital transformation and move
towards a 5G future. We aim to create an open, collaborative, win-win
industry ecosystem to have in-depth conversations, discuss the latest
trends and share opinions together,” Dr. Madkour said.
