"BARCELONA – A record 85,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress saw two radically different visions of the digital future.

Developed market telecom companies think of 5G mobile broadband as a consumer technology and worry that their market is close to saturation. China’s flagship digital infrastructure company, Huawei, thinks of 5G as an industrial technology and believes that the new digital economy is soon set to launch.

Two years ago, Western media wrote obituaries for Huawei after Trump administration sanctions denied the Shenzhen-based company access to US technology, including the fastest new chips with gate widths of 7 nanometers (nm) or less.

Huawei, whose handset sales briefly surpassed Apple’s, lost most of its smartphone business due to sanctions, but it has reemerged as the world’s top provider of telecom infrastructure, a source of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) applications for mining, manufacturing and service industries, and a builder of digital technology for specific industries, especially automotive.

Huawei officials said they expected the company’s auto business alone to exceed the 2021 peak revenues of its handset business. They also anticipate substantial revenues from its green energy division, which uses AI-enabled solar cells to enhance energy conversion.

According to Huawei estimates, more than 10,000 Chinese businesses have built dedicated, or private, 5G networks, including more than 6,000 manufacturing firms.

That compares to a total of 171 private 5G networks outside of China, of which fewer than 20 are factories. “That’s because the Chinese government is pushing manufacturing companies to adopt 5G and AI,” a Huawei specialist said.

Ericsson and Nokia, Huawei’s European competitors, offered no examples of 5G-to-business applications in their exhibits. A press spokesperson for Ericsson said that the firm did not have data on the number of private 5G networks built for businesses.

The Chinese firm’s exhibit took up the whole of the Barcelona Fair’s first Exhibition hall, while its main competitors, including Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung and IBM, were crammed into the second Exhibition Hall.."

https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/digital-worlds-diverge-at-world-mobile-congress/

On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 12:37:10 AM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
> "BARCELONA – A record 85,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress saw two radically different visions of the digital future.
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> Developed market telecom companies think of 5G mobile broadband as a consumer technology and worry that their market is close to saturation. China’s flagship digital infrastructure company, Huawei, thinks of 5G as an industrial technology and believes that the new digital economy is soon set to launch.
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> Two years ago, Western media wrote obituaries for Huawei after Trump administration sanctions denied the Shenzhen-based company access to US technology, including the fastest new chips with gate widths of 7 nanometers (nm) or less.
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> Huawei, whose handset sales briefly surpassed Apple’s, lost most of its smartphone business due to sanctions, but it has reemerged as the world’s top provider of telecom infrastructure, a source of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) applications for mining, manufacturing and service industries, and a builder of digital technology for specific industries, especially automotive.
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> Huawei officials said they expected the company’s auto business alone to exceed the 2021 peak revenues of its handset business. They also anticipate substantial revenues from its green energy division, which uses AI-enabled solar cells to enhance energy conversion.
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> According to Huawei estimates, more than 10,000 Chinese businesses have built dedicated, or private, 5G networks, including more than 6,000 manufacturing firms.
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> That compares to a total of 171 private 5G networks outside of China, of which fewer than 20 are factories. “That’s because the Chinese government is pushing manufacturing companies to adopt 5G and AI,” a Huawei specialist said.
>
> Ericsson and Nokia, Huawei’s European competitors, offered no examples of 5G-to-business applications in their exhibits. A press spokesperson for Ericsson said that the firm did not have data on the number of private 5G networks built for businesses.
>
> The Chinese firm’s exhibit took up the whole of the Barcelona Fair’s first Exhibition hall, while its main competitors, including Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung and IBM, were crammed into the second Exhibition Hall."
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> https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/digital-worlds-diverge-at-world-mobile-congress/

With 2.2 million bases, 5G technology has contributed to improve the lives of the Chinese people.

"世界之巅的珠峰，深埋地下的矿井，蔚蓝海域的岛礁，上天、入海、穿越沙漠，222万个5G基站将万物互连。
从全球规模第一的移动支付交易，到远程医疗覆盖超过全国90%的县区，从农村电子商务，到构建智慧城市，
从精准农业种植，到无人化智能工厂，生产方式革新，人民生活改善，无处不在的5G网络，正改变着14亿
中国人的生活。"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkaLeuOrS8