Huawei demos 5G live networks
February 25, 2019
Huawei kicked off this year’s Mobile World Congress with its Day0 Forum in Barcelona. With the theme of building a fully connected intelligent world, the forum included industry insights of the latest trends.
At the 5G is ON industry insights, Huawei Executive Director and President of the Carrier Business Group Ryan Ding demonstrated the 4K video-on-demand service on a Huawei 5G foldable smartphone via a Vodafone Spain 5G live network powered by Huawei. The demo showcased the Gbit/s-level bandwidth that 5G networks will provide anywhere, anytime.
Ding said at the demo: “The wave of 5G is sweeping the globe, giving us a better life empowered by new technologies. At the same time, the Gbit/s-level connections enabled by 5G and the monetisation of experience fueled by CloudX services give global carriers new business opportunities.” He added that Huawei will set up open labs to help its customers experience and innovate in 5G services on their networks in support of their success in the era of 5G.