[ Barcelona , ​​Spain , February 25, 2024 ] Today, Huawei held the " 5G Beyond Growth Summit " during MWC24 Barcelona . At the meeting, Li Peng, Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales and Services , shared how operators can achieve commercial success in the 5G era and explained how 5G - A will further stimulate network potential and create new growth opportunities.

5G commercial success is happening. In the five years since its commercial launch, the number of global 5G users has exceeded 1.5 billion , which is equivalent to the development results of 4G in nine years. At the same time, 5G accounts for 20 % of global mobile users, contributing 30 % of mobile traffic and 40 % of mobile business revenue.

"2024 is the first year of 5G -A commercialization. Combined with the development of cloud and AI technology , operators have huge potential for commercial growth." To this end, Li Peng pointed out that global operators can seize strategic opportunities in four aspects.

Li Peng, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of ICT Sales and Services

A quality network is the foundation for business success

A high-quality network can support rapid user migration and experience improvement, and reap traffic dividends. More and more operators have released strategic goals for building the best 5G networks . For example, operators in the Middle East have built a nationwide Massive MIMO network. The high-quality experience has promoted the great success of the 5G FWA business . The number of household connections has approached 3 million, becoming an important engine for operator revenue growth.

Multi-dimensional experience monetization, fully exploring the value of every bit of the network

Currently, more than 20% of the world's 5G operators use rate billing. Thai operators have released a 5G hotspot acceleration package that supports users' on-demand time-sharing subscriptions and increased ARPU by approximately 23 % . Chinese operators have launched an uplink experience guarantee package for network anchors to make the live broadcast experience more high-definition and smoother. This package has been welcomed by anchors, and the ARPU value has increased by more than 70%.

Li Peng delivered an opening speech at the summit

New businesses continue to emerge to support continued future-oriented growth

New consumer-oriented services such as new phone calls, cloud phones and naked-eye 3D are becoming more and more popular. New call users are happy to use value-added functions such as "personal avatar"; they are also more willing to pay for real-time experiences such as "one-stop car insurance claims".

5G is also being widely adopted by enterprise users. In China, 5G private networks have been commercialized for more than 50,000 use cases in more than 50 industries. The new capabilities of 5G -A , such as deterministic latency, precise positioning and passive IoT, will create more opportunities for operators in the B2B market.

Generative AI drives the mobile industry towards comprehensive intelligence

IDC predicts that AI mobile phone shipments will reach 170 million units in 2024, accounting for 15% of global smartphone shipments. The next generation of AI mobile phones will have more powerful storage, display and imaging functions, and work together with AIGC applications to generate hundreds of billions of GB of content, bringing new growth opportunities to operators.

Li Peng said that Huawei is willing to work with operators to fully unleash the potential of 5G and 5G-A networks and stimulate new growth .

MWC24 Barcelona will be held in Spain from February 26th to February 29th. Huawei's exhibition area is located in the 1H50 exhibition area of ​​Hall 1, Fira Gran Via. 2024 is the first year of commercialization of 5G-A. Huawei will work with global operators and partners to promote collaborative innovation of "Network Cloud Intelligence", promote the in-depth development of digital intelligence transformation, prosper the industrial ecosystem, and accelerate the normalization of 5G business. Cycle and embrace a more prosperous 5G-A era. For more details, please refer to: https://carrier.huawei.com/cn/events/mwc2024