[Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2024] During MWC24 in Barcelona, Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, Li Peng, shared new strategic opportunities in the ICT industry in the era of intelligence.
In his keynote speech titled "Leading the Intelligent World," Li Peng stated, "As human society progresses from the digital to the intelligent world, the demand for higher network capabilities is ignited. 5G-Advanced is the essential path to the era of intelligence. 2024 marks the commercial debut year of 5G-A. Let us build the networks of today for the applications of tomorrow and lead the accelerated arrival of an intelligent world."
Li Peng delivers keynote speech at MWC24 in Barcelona
Embracing 5G-Advanced, Guiding the Commercial Year of 5G-A
Li Peng stated that in the past two decades, the digitization and information technology have brought trillions of dollars in strategic opportunities to the ICT industry. With a focus on a more prosperous intelligent world, the industry has continuously raised high demands for networks, such as "ultra-broadband uplink, real-time communication, and all-scenario IoT," driving the rapid evolution of network capabilities towards 5G-A, empowering innovative application scenarios and business models. It is expected that by 2030, the global intelligent economy will surpass 18.8 trillion dollars, bringing forth new strategic opportunities for the ICT industry.
Li Peng stated that the global smart economy will bring new strategic opportunities to the ICT industry
From China and the Middle East to Europe, leading global operators have validated the advanced capabilities of 5G-A in various commercial networks, covering multiple scenarios such as smart humanity, home, vehicles, and venues. "Gigabit Smart Cities" are burgeoning everywhere. At this MWC, Huawei launched a comprehensive range of 5G-A product solutions for all scenarios and the industry's first communications mega-model, offering operators more value in network experience assurance and automated operations and maintenance.
In the future, as network technology evolves, the "flow of information, space-time, and value" will continue to be reconstructed, accelerating society's move towards an era of intelligence.
Intelligence enables a leap in content production efficiency, sparks a surge in network traffic, and restructures the flow of information
In today's society, with the rapid development of intelligent technology and the increasing richness of intelligent applications, new industry opportunities are being shaped.
Represented by AIGC, new modes of intelligent content production, new objects of connection like digital humans and smart vehicles, and new "storage-computation" models with cloud-edge collaboration, will generate hundreds of billions of GB of AIGC content, unleashing a trillion GB of traffic dividends. Huawei predicts that by 2026, AI will produce more than 250 billion high-quality images and over 70 million short videos, marking a "big bang" singularity in "content production."
Diverse content stimulates multi-dimensional experiences, driving multi-dimensional monetization, and restructuring the value flow.
The innovation and popularization of intelligent applications have increased consumer and industry users' expectations for "uplink speed, QoS, and latency," offering operators multi-dimensional monetization opportunities and opening up a hundred billion dollars in new revenue spaces. For example, Chinese operators have designed uplink experience assurance packages for live broadcast services, achieving over 70% ARPU growth. In the transportation sector, operators have upgraded the B2B2C business model by providing one-stop claim reporting, survey, and compensation services for auto insurance users, based on 5G's new call location services and real-time interactions.
Breaking through the limits of time and space with connections supports new value acquisition, restructuring the flow of space-time
5G's high-quality network connection capability helps users break through latency bottlenecks and spatial limitations. For instance, with high bandwidth and low latency networks, users can enjoy innovative services like cloud gaming and cloud office through cloud mobile services, without being limited by physical terminals. In the context of wide-area IoT, from the power grid to manufacturing, from warehousing to logistics, there's a demand for network support for more than ten times the connection density and positioning accuracy.
Leading the intelligent world, pioneers are already forging ahead. Li Peng calls on the industry to actively embrace 5.5G, build a solid ICT foundation for the intelligent world, and together move towards a more prosperous intelligent world.
Huawei calls on the industry to actively embrace 5.5G, advancing towards a more prosperous intelligent world.
MWC24 Barcelona will be held in Spain from February 26 to February 29. Huawei's exhibition area is located at booth 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1. The year 2024 marks the commercialization of 5G-A, and Huawei, alongside global operators and partners, will collaborate to promote synergistic innovation in "network-cloud-intelligence." This collaboration aims to drive the deepening of digital transformation, foster industry ecosystem prosperity, accelerate the positive business cycle of 5G, and embrace a more flourishing era of 5G-A. For more details, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/cn/events/mwc2024
