While the MWC 2018 event was going on, there was another event held in Barcelona too called the GTI Summit 2018. In that event, over 2300 exhibitors and 100,000 guests from various governments, organizations, operators, vertical and partners from 208 countries came together to discuss how 5G and A.I. can enable the future. With the theme "5G + A.I., Fuel the Innovation", vivo held a talk and its contribution to 5G technology research and development.
Vivo Senior Vice President, Shi Yujian who was present at the summit in Barcelona, stated that vivo has fully opened up the research and development of smartphones for 5G and they will strive to launch the first 5G mobile. He also mentioned that "5G is both opportunity and a challenge for vivo. Technological innovation is speeding up the reform of the entire industry. Hence, the only way to take the initiative and breakthrough the problem is being constant innovation."
At this moment, China Mobile said they will start its 5G scale-up trials in five cities and 5G application showcase in twelve cities in China. This is to propel the core network transformation and RAN evolution to speed up 5G end-to-end development, as well as promoting the 5G + A.I. innovation. This is based on a two years effort and collaboration with 112 partners such as vivo, for sharing its resources of 5G end-to-end environment in twelve open labs around the world, preparing 5G service and pre-commercial showcase next year.
Since 2016, the company has established a 5G Research and Development Center in Beijing that covers 5G core technologies and standardization studies. Vivo also submitted more than 600 technical proposals of 5G to 3GPP last year, and they also recently started a prototype development of 5G smartphone.
Vivo is planning to participate in the 5G network scale test in the future. Stay tuned for upcoming 5G & AI related news at TechNave.com.
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