After three years of licensing spectrum for 5G, China has seen faster-than-expected 5G growth, and is now one of the world’s main drivers behind the rapid development of 5G and its upstream and downstream ecosystem. While continuing to promote the development of 5G, the industry had started to work on bringing 5G into a new phase: 5GAdvanced, which has become a hot topic of discussions among operators and industry partners.
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5G has proved to be a breakthrough technology enabling a digital, intelligent world with ubiquitous gigabit experience and 10 billion-level connectivity. 5G-Advanced is set to further up its predecessor with a ubiquitous 10 Gbps experience and 100 billion-level connectivity, further deepening the digital, intelligent transformation. One year after 3GPP officially defined 5GAdvanced for 5G evolution, operators, equipment vendors, and industry partners have reached consensus on the use cases, requirements, and key directions of 5G-Advanced. Release 18 will be the first release of specifications that will make this consensus to a reality.
At a conference on the achievements of 5GAdvanced innovation-industry chain convergence on June 6, 2022, China Mobile unveiled its first-ever 5GAdvanced E2E industry showcases, along with Huawei and other partners, and released a white paper on new capabilities and development prospects for 5GAdvanced. China Mobile also announced new plans to promote the in-depth convergence between 5Gadvanced innovation and industry chains. The white paper proposed three major directions for 5Gadvanced: high-quality networks, intelligent and simplified networks, and low carbon goals, along with 10 key technologies based on the three directions.
China Unicom proposed three technical solutions for 5GAdvanced: smart new vision, smart high uplink, and smart super sensing on May 15, 2022 at its conference covering innovations and practice achievements. These technical proposals will form a crucial part of its new efforts to explore new capabilities of 5GAdvanced, including 10 Gbps downlink, Gbps uplink, and new spectrum deployments. The company also called for collaboration among industry partners to grow the size of the market at large.