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FWA: A Revenue
Game-Changer
Alex Xu
President of Carrier Business
Huawei Middle East & Central Asia
Since the beginning of 5G have been marketed, and high-end
commercialization in 2019, more CPEs which support it have been Huawei's innovative FWA
than 50% of the world's 5G operators mass produced including Brovi, Service Turbo solution
have put FWA as one of the main MeiG, T&W. The launch of RedCap
works with CPEs to
services. FWA subscribers are CPE makes the price of 5G CPE less
ensure user experience,
growing strongly. By the end of than US$60. According to the GSA
2023, the number of global 5G FWA report, the terminal ecosystem such as reducing the
subscribers exceeded 20 million. It is booming. 311 CPE models have latency of cloud gaming
is estimated that this number will been released and more than 212 services and stabilizing
reach 300 million by the end of 2029. CPE models have been put into
the network speed of
FWA service has contributed 10% of commercial use.
video services. This
the total revenue for some pioneer • In terms of user requirements,
operators. pure connection requirements are solution surpasses the
shifting to richer applications, such existing home broadband
Looking at the global trends, we see as AIGC, online education, cloud experience boundary,
three of the latest industry changes: gaming/cloud storage, and home
supports operators to
• In terms of spectrum, more and IoT.
develop scenario-based
more operators can obtain a
second or a third large-bandwidth Considering the Middle East region, packages, enriches
TDD spectrums, providing ultra- 5G was put into commercial use in service contents, and
large bandwidth capabilities for 2019, which was among the world’s increases business
the wireless networks. Currently, first 5G wave. Operators in the
revenue.
some leading operators, such as du region actively deploy 5G national
UAE, e& UAE, stc Saudi Arabia, and networks and provision services. Due
CMCC, have deployed three TDD to their accumulated experience have been developed, and this
carrier aggregation (CA) in a large- in 4G WTTx, FWA is one of the key contributes to a result that 5G traffic
scale. services at the beginning of 5G accounts for more than 50% of the
• In terms of terminals, 5.5G CPEs while all GCC operators have put total network traffic. Operators are
supporting 3 Carrier Component- 5G FWA into commercial use. So actively exploring applications such
Channel Aggregation (3CC CA) far, more than 3 million FWA users as guaranteed high-speed services
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