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“ 5.5G was initially spearheaded to advance the network and deliver something better to the second phase of the 5G roll out ; and also to help put the industry on the path to 6G ”
JAMES KIRBY SENIOR VP AND HEAD OF EMEA BUSINESS , CSG
Uplink Centric Broadband Communication ( UCBC ); Real-Time Broadband Communications ( RTBC ) and Harmonised Communications and Sensing ( HCS ).
The first two relate to increasing bandwidth limits with fixed latency requirements and HCS would allow products and equipment such as drones , autonomous vehicles and smart infrastructure to work and respond better for larger and more complex tasks . Huawei goes on to say that the ICT sector at large will be about defining 5.5G to support hundreds of billions of diverse connections . And , in the context of the Industrial Internet of Things ( IIoT ), the company adds there will need to be support for such massive connection density , as well as high upload bandwidth .
Reasons behind it There are good reasons to talk about 5.5G which are unique to this moment . The first wave of 5G has focused primarily on mobile broadband , while the more prominent aspects of it , which are aimed at enterprise use cases ,
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