On the eve of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016, an opening ceremony for strategic cooperation on 4.5G between Huawei and world's leading telecom operators, including TeliaSonera from Norway, HKT from Hong Kong, LG Uplus from Korea, P4 from Poland, VIVA from Kuwait, among others, took place at the 4.5G Industry Summit, a part of Digital Transformation Summit for MWC 2016. This strategic cooperation unfolds a new chapter for massive 4.5G commercial use in 2016.

The 4.5G Industry Summit attracted more than 300 mainstream telecom operators, analysts, and journalists throughout Europe, Asia, America, Middle East, and other regions. Apart from the opening ceremony, the summit provided an open platform for all participants to share their wealth of experience and aspirations for 4.5G. These in-depth discussions included hopes, visions, strategies, pre-commercialized deployment experiences and latest 4.5G progress.

Ryan Ding, Huawei Executive Director, President of Products & Solutions, proposed the three core concepts of 4.5G: Gbps, Experience 4.0, and Connection+. He also elaborated how 4.5G increases data rates for better user experience and wider service rollout and facilitates operators in the creation of new entrepreneurial business opportunities and gaining a winning competitive edge.

Ryan Ding, Huawei Executive Director, President of Products & Solutions.

Ryan Ding said, "4.5G takes potential new terminals, services, and experience in the next five years into consideration and aims to support larger bandwidths, reduced latencies, and massive connections. This has laid a solid foundation for 5G commercialization. 4.5G is the only way to the 5G along the LTE evolution path. 4G and 5G are expected to coexist for a long period of time. Telecom operators should never cease their innovative efforts during the evolution to 5G if they want to occupy a prominent position in the market. These innovation efforts are the essence of what drives and motivates the 4.5G technology. The revolutionary 4.5G network will allow operators to protect further investment through the reallocation of existing infrastructure and resources to offer higher data rates and improved user experience. 4.5G allows operators to deploy NB-IoT, broadband trunking, and additional new technologies to existing networks. This enables operators to fully maximize advantageous latent potential to better serve vertical markets."

Speeches were delivered by telecom operator representatives on the progress and experience of Gbps network construction, premium audio/video experience, NB-IoT, LiTRA, system capacity enhancement, and other topics.