pre-5G

PARTNER INTERVIEW: ZTE CTO Xu Huijun (pictured below) outlines the company’s progress on pre-standard 5G deployments and gives a glimpse of what’s in store for MWC and 2017. MWL: ZTE’s Pre5G solutions have had a strong market reception globally.

Singapore mobile operator M1 and China-based equipment vendor Huawei said they reached transmission speeds of 35Gb/s in a pre-5G demo using the 73GHz band.

ZTE announced yesterday that the first pre-commercial test of D-MIMO (distributed multiple input and multiple output) technology boosted the data rate at the cell edge by up to nine times.

Vodafone India unveils WiFi offload app India’s second largest operator Vodafone India launched a WiFi offload app that shifts data traffic away from its cellular network to reduce network congestion.

Japan’s third largest mobile operator SoftBank has signed separate TD-LTE network development deals with both of China’s major telecoms equipment makers – ZTE and Huawei.

Chinese telecoms gear maker ZTE has developed Multi-User Shared Access (MUSA) technology that it claims can more than triple the overload capacity of wireless access networks.

Chinese vendor ZTE has said it plans to launch a ‘pre-5G’ testing base station in 2015, commercial use of which will be possible in 2016, following tests and adjustment.