The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 officially opened in Barcelona, Spain on February 26, bringing together tech vendors and media from all over the world.
Scientific and Technological Feast
As the largest and most influential exhibition in the field of mobile communications, the theme of this year’s conference is “Future First”, which mainly focuses on 6 major themes, such as Beyond 5G, Internet of Everything, Humanization of AI, Digital Intelligence Manufacturing, Rules of Disruption, and Digital Gene.
In 2023, the number of global 5G connections has reached 1.6 billion, fully demonstrating the huge impact of 5G technology in production and life, and driving the rapid formation of new productivity. Now, 5G commercialization has entered its fifth year, and 5G-Advanced, as an important milestone in the development of ICT, is expected to be commercialized in 2024.
5G-A (5G-Advanced) is a partial upgrade of the 5G network in terms of functionality and coverage. 5G-A works in parallel with 5G, and 5G-A is responsible for supporting some of the more demanding application scenarios.
The goal of 5G-A is not to replace 5G, but to supplement 5G in hotspot areas or specific scenarios, which is the next stage of 5G development, and can provide a downlink rate of 10Gbps, equivalent to 10 times higher than the original 5G’s 1Gbps. 5G-A commercialization year is officially opened, which will promote the collaborative innovation of “network, cloud, and intelligence” and promote the deep development of digital and intellectual transformation, as well as accelerate the positive cycle of 5G business. The official opening of the first year of 5G-A commercialization will promote the collaborative innovation of “Network, Cloud and Intelligence”, promote the in-depth development of digital and intellectual transformation, prosper the industrial ecosystem, and accelerate the positive cycle of 5G business.
Industry analysts said that the development of 5G-A will open up the demand space for core components such as antennas, RF, communication modules, etc. The convergence of 5G/5G-A and AI, edge computing, and other technologies brings better connectivity, perception, and computation capabilities; at the same time, the characteristics of 5G-A high-speed rate and milliseconds latency will have broad application scenarios in the future in end-use applications such as automobiles, wearable devices, or in the fields of education, healthcare, and gaming. 5G-A has a wide range of application scenarios.
Qualcomm
Meanwhile, communications chip giant, Qualcomm (QCOM) will exhibit the world’s prototype of an ultra-large-scale MIMO antenna system built to operate in the 13GHz band, helping the wireless communications industry explore the utilization of new spectrum in the mid-to high-frequency bands in preparation for the arrival of the 6G era.
Not long ago, Qualcomm’s vice president of technology and standards said that the 5G industry cycle is about 10 years, the former part of which is the convergence with 4G, and the latter part is the iteration with 6G. Now in the middle of the 5G, 2024 5G-A began commercial landing, not only to better realize the goals of 5G, but also to start the 6G vision planning.
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. is fully committed to evolving to 5G-A
On the other hand, technology vendors that are closely related to communication technology are also gearing up. According to public information, WiMi (NASDAQ: WIMI), a 5G holographic communication vendor, will fully help promote 5G-A from industrial consensus to commercial application and build a 5G-A innovation ecosystem.
WiMi has brought a series of innovative products and solutions in the industry in terms of 5G business development, realizing the realization of digital intelligence for multiple fields, such as incorporating 5G-A+AI big model applications, actively allowing 5G-A to merge with AI, creating multi-dimensional technological innovations and application expansions, and tapping into a wide range of application scenarios. At the same time, WiMi helps 5G-A business potential, the future will be the program to further empower industry, culture, tourism, and other scenarios of the meta-universe applications, to provide more possibilities for 5G-A industry business innovation.
It can be said that WiMi spares no effort to promote the development of 5G-A, and is committed to building a 5G-A application innovation industry, focusing on performance expansion, improving efficiency, developing 5G-A innovative applications, forming several influential standards and specifications, and catalyzing the commercialization of the 5G-A industry on a large scale, to comprehensively support the Internet of Everything and help the transformation of a smart society. The future is more than imaginable, and WiMi will continue to join hands with industrial partners to jointly pull industrial innovation and development with new 5G-A capabilities, and unleash the value of 5G-A through cross-border integration.
Conclusion
MWC 2024 was held as scheduled. Throughout the MWC2024 current information can be found, more and more technology companies into the centre of the international stage, the communications industry vendors are around the 5G-A for the next layout, and more relevant information, you can pay attention to the follow-up news.
