Watch: Government, ICT firm Huawei sign MOU to test 5G in Malta; Sai Mizzi: ‘You finally found me’
Duncan Barry Tuesday, 14 July 2015, 15:31 Last update: about 8 hours ago
The Maltese government signed a strategic agreement with China-based ICT global leader Huawei Technologies which will see 5G technology tested in Malta. A Huawei regional office was also inaugurated at SmartCity.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera, Malta business envoy to Asia Sai Mizzi and Edward Chan, the CEO of Huawei Italy were present for the signing.
Upon the results of such testing, the company will evaluate the possibility of establishing a Research and Development centre in Malta.
Huawei will be seeking a local partner while here in Malta to assist it in 5G testing. One of the advantages of 5G, once introduced, is that mobile users can man their appliances through the use of their cell phone, since capabilities would be enhanced through such technology.
Huawei employs as many as 170,000 employees, half of which are employed in the research and development sector which it believes is important for achieving future success.
Sai Mizzi says ‘don’t believe online reports about me’
Addressing those present, Mrs Mizzi joked: “You finally found me.”
She continued: “You may have read all sorts of things about me online, don’t believe them.
“I work for you and my commitment is to give Malta a voice inside Asia. I am thrilled to introduce Huawei to Malta,” she said.
Mrs Mizzi said that she would like to see the friendship between China and Malta continue to prosper. Such investments, she said, means new jobs for future generations.
Dr Herrera reaffirmed that Mrs Mizzi played a vital role in getting things off the ground in terms of this project. He said that talks kickstarted last year with Huawei.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that Malta is open for business and ready to test new frontiers.
“Our size is not an obstacle, results are being seen and felt in terms of our economy,” he added.
Dr Muscat said that he just returned from Brussels where European leaders were discussing a doom and gloom scenario of Greece leaving the eurozone.
He joked that on hearing how much profit Huawei makes annually, he thought to himself that it could have easily bailed out Greece.
He outlined a number of investments, including the agreement with Shanghai Electric Power and Siemens.
“What you are seeing here is just the beginning; investment is flowing in from India, the Gulf, Italy and more. I take pride in promoting my country and I urge my ministers and diplomats to spread the news that Malta is really open for business and to attract investors,” Dr Muscat said.
Earlier
During a press briefing for journalists, Joseph Cuschieri – who is the executive chairman of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority but who was appointed by Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera as technical expert to help get things moving with Huawei - said that no 5G smart phone technology exists. This MOU is the start of a journey for Malta to be included in the ICT sphere which will see 5G technology tested here.
He explained that the Maltese delegation - which included Malta’s special envoy for China Sai Mizzi - held its first talks with Huawei in July 2014.
This technology is still in experimentation stage and Huawei are one of the leading corporations carrying out such testing.
Huawei will also support Malta in its digital strategy over the coming years, which includes the FTTH (fibre to the home) nationwide project and the laying of another submarine cable.
Asked if the Huawei’s involvement in fibre to the home would affect local operators, he said that the government would be working with the local private sector so as not to have duplicate investment.
“A strategy would be implemented which will deal with this situation,” he explained. “We aim to cover all localities with the fibre optic service,” he added.
Asked by this newsroom if, in the event a local operator is not found, whether Huawei will still go ahead with the testing, Mr Cuschieri replied in the affirmative.
Watch: Government, ICT firm Huawei sign MOU to test 5G in Malta; Sai Mizzi: ‘You finally found me’ - The Malta Independent
LG Uplus joins hands with Huawei for 5G
Two firms to conduct joint projects for next-generation network
Published : 2015-07-14 17:41
Updated : 2015-07-14 17:41
South Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus said Tuesday that it would beef up its partnership with Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei to develop technology for the next-generation 5G mobile network.
The two signed a memorandum of understanding in a ceremony in China, at which Kim Sun-tae, executive vice president of LG Uplus’ service development division, and Yang Chao Bin, chief marketing officer of the Chinese firm, discussed the details of the future collaboration.
Kim Sun-tae (right), executive vice president of LG Uplus’ service development division, and Yang Chao Bin, chief marketing officer of Huawei, pose at a signing ceremony of an memorandum of understanding in Shanghai on Tuesday. LG Uplus
Both firms will participate in the Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015 from Wednesday to Friday.
“Such an MOU between the world’s leading (information and communications technology) firms is highly necessary to roll out new services and swiftly respond to the explosive growth of data traffic and new technology,” said the LG Uplus executive vice president, vowing to lead the network market in close partnership with Huawei.
The two partners pledged to work on developing network solutions and equipment for 5G and run joint laboratory and field tests.
The Huawei CMO also said that the two companies would make efforts for the standardization of 5G technologies to lead the global telecommunications industry.
LG Uplus joins hands with Huawei for 5G
Softbank prepares for 5G and signs deals with Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei
By
Guy Daniels @guydaniels
Towards 5G 5 days ago
- Collaboration with ZTE on Massive MIMO
- Evaluation of Huawei’s TDD+
- Frequency utilisation improvements five times higher
- ZTE to launch TDD+ next week
China’s ZTE has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s SoftBank to collaborate on research and development on Pre-5G mobile communications networks technology. So-called “pre-5G” technologies will be essential to bridge the period between now and 2020 when 5G is expected to launch commercially, enabling operators and vendors to test out techniques and trial new services and use cases.
(TelecomTV will next week premiere an exclusive video feature on "The Evolution of LTE").
Under the terms of the MoU, the two companies will cooperate on R&D, evaluation and verification of mobile communications solutions based on ZTE's Pre-5G technology, including Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). The two companies already have a cooperation agreement for UDN (ultra-dense networks) and MUSA (multi-user shared access).
“The technology being developed under this agreement will help define future mobile internet communications,” said Keiichi Makizono, SVP of SoftBank. “In our plans to develop next-generation mobile networks, SoftBank will derive large benefits from the Pre5G collaboration with ZTE.”
ZTE says its Massive MIMO base stations have the capability to support more than 100 antenna elements, and provide higher space division multiplexing gains than traditional 8-antenna base stations without changing existing terminals or air interfaces, thereby significantly enhancing spectrum utilisation. They also allow up to eight users to transfer data simultaneously.
“The agreement with SoftBank will add enormous value to ZTE's technology alliances with our partners around the world on 5G research, as we are committed to building an industry ecosystem based on open collaboration,” said Zhang Renjun, SVP of ZTE.
LTE TDD+
SoftBank has also signed an MoU with Huawei for the verification testing, technological evaluation, and R&D of what it calls “TDD+” technology, Huawei’s proposal for 4.5G mobile communications technology based on LTE TDD. (The 3GPP standards group is currently working on 4.5G definitions and is expected to also unveil a new brand name for this very soon).
SoftBank has already deployed TDD-capable Advanced eXtended Global Platform (AXGP) networks in Japan using its TDD spectrums, to address the increase in traffic volume on its mobile networks. The operator says that the TDD+ research cooperation with Huawei will enable it to increase the frequency resource efficiency on the AXGP networks by a factor of five, substantially improving the user experience.
"The technology involved in this cooperation will become the next-generation network development trend,” added Keiichi Makizono. “Now, SoftBank is planning to construct the next-generation mobile network. Therefore, our cooperation with Huawei on 4.5G technology is quite meaningful."
"TDD+ helps increase the spectral efficiency and decrease the total cost of ownership,” said David Wang, President of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line. “It also creates new services and provides a communications environment able to adapt to user demands.”
Huawei is not the only Chinese vendor pushing TDD+. ZTE is expected to launch its own TDD+ solution at MWC Shanghai in China next week.
Softbank prepares for 5G and signs deals with Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei | TelecomTV
Huawei Technologies, ZTE invest in 5G R&D
Irene Chen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES
[Tuesday 14 July 2015]
China-based telecom equipment vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE, in an attempt to lead in international development of 5G mobile communication technology and application, will invest US$600 million and EUR300 million (US$336 million) respectively in 5G R&D, according to the companies.
Huawei has signed for cooperation with
Vodafone and
Deutsche Telekom (German Telecom) for R&D of 5G technology and application. ZTE has inked a cooperation agreement with Japan-based SoftBank to deploy in-house-developed pre-5G technology in the Japan market, with commercial trial scheduled for early 2016 and pre-5G device prototypes to be developed in 2016-2018.
In addition, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has formed a task force to address international development of 5G standards.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is expected to release technological definitions of 5G standards beginning 2016 and finish specification of these standards in 2020.
Huawei Technologies, ZTE invest in 5G R&D
Huawei unveils new 4.5G solution
BY
JUAN PEDRO TOMÁS ON JULY 14, 2015
The Chinese company expects the solution to be commercially available in 2016
SHANGHAI,
China–Huawei has launched its new TDD+ solution in collaboration with its industry partners China Mobile and Japanese telecoms operator SoftBank. The telecom equipment manufacturer announced the new tech at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015.
Huawei’s Wireless Network Product Line President David Wang told reporters that the new solution will be commercially available in 2016. He added that both China Mobile and SoftBank will carry out trials before the end of this year. Wang also said that Huawei will welcome additional partners to help promote the TDD+ industry chain.
Huawei said that the TDD+ technology can provide an xGbps-level user experience, uncover more business opportunities for carriers and maximize their return on investment (ROI). The Chinese company conceived TDD+ to offer a solution for service providers to be in a position to meet increasing mobile traffic demands. This solution is compatible with existing 4G networks. TDD+ also increases spectral efficiency and system capacity by using high-performance Cloud-baseband chips and features such as distributed MIMO (DMIMO), massive CA, High-Order modulation, High Order MIMO, and multi-user 3D beamforming.
As a key 4.5G solution, TDD+ technology can improve the user experience and enables wireless services to enter the xGbps era. Based on existing 4G technology such as 4T4R and 8T8R, TDD+ can enable the efficient use of large and heavily composed multiple-antenna systems networking through software upgrades and the CloudBB technology, Wang said.
Huawei currently leads the TDD-LTE market, with 40 out of 54 deployed networks around the world. Wang said that Huawei has shipped 50% of total TDD-LTE base stations globally.
According to Huawei, China and Japan will see the first wave of TDD+ networks. However, the Chinese firm said that this new technology could be implemented by any operator with TDD spectrum. There are currently 54 TDD networks in 34 countries.
In related news, 3 Hong Kong, the mobile communications division of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong Holdings, and Huawei have announced the successful demonstration of an end-to-end FDD and TDD LTE-A commercial network in Hong Kong using carrier aggregation (CA) technology and terminals chip-powered by Qualcomm Technologies.
Huawei unveils new 4.5G solution
Huawei: in the world of 5G, we're all Europeans now
Chinese giant joins Europe's 5G-PPP
14 Jul 2015 at 05:03,
Richard Chirgwin
Huawei has formalised its cooperation with Europe's 5G-PPP (public-private partnership), announcing the projects it will be working on under the project.
The Chinese juggernaut's interest was signalled last year when it
dominated sponsorship of the 5G@Europe summit in Munich.
Earlier this year, Europe's digital commish Gunther Oettinger reiterated a grand vision for 5G that would include Chinese investment, and now, that investment is taking shape.
Huawei has
announced it will work on the following projects:
- METIS-II: Mobile and wireless communications enablers;
- Fantastic-5G: Flexible air interface for scalable service delivery;
- mmMAGIC: Millimetre-wave based mobile radio access networks;
- 5G-Xhaul: small-scale and cloud-RAN optical and wireless backhaul and “fronthaul”, with a “cognitive control plane”; and
- 5G Exchange: Multi-domain orchestration for software defined infrastructure.
As well as the 5G-PPP projects, Huawei touted a plan to spend £5 million on 5G research in Europe by 2018, and its participation in the launch of a Munich-based 5G Vertical Industry Accelerator.
The company has been working hard to plant its flags in the battleground: it's announced heavy investments, is working hard on the air interface (along with World+Dog), and is a board member of the 5G Infrastructure Association.
Its announcements for 5G include a
2013 promise to pour US$600 million into the technology; an
air interface demonstration; and work on
patent-book-building. ®
Huawei: in the world of 5G, we're all Europeans now • The Register
