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Coordinated industry-wide efforts have created a positive development cycle for networks, users, devices, and services, laying the foundation for 5.5G.
By Cao Ming, President, Wireless Network Product Line, Huawei
Technology creates value, and innovation is the main engine of future development. 5G has already become a key part of the infrastructure needed to support digital transformation and the healthy development of the wider digital economy. Since its commercial rollout three years ago, 5G has grown faster than any previous generation of mobile technology. By the end of 2022, more than 240 carriers around the world had launched commercial 5G services and deployed more than three million 5G sites to serve one billion 5G users.
5G is advancing twice as fast as 4G, and already boasts a mature industry ecosystem. It is already bringing about change, but this is merely the beginning. As we inch closer to the intelligent world, new changes, scenarios, and needs will continue to emerge, raising higher requirements on network infrastructure. 5G is now able to deliver Gbit/s-level experiences and support tens of billions of connections, making it an important pillar for sustainable development and the global digital economy. 5.5G will deliver 10-fold higher network capabilities, enabling 10 Gbit/s experiences, 100 billion connections, and native intelligence for a broad diversity of services. This makes 5.5G an important milestone on the path to an intelligent world.
Figure 1: Key characteristics of 5.5G networks