Asia Pacific WTTX Summit sees joint declaration to drive digital home growth
Huawei successfully held the Asia Pacific WTTX (Fixed wireless access) summit with the theme ‘Bring Affordable and Fast Fixed Wireless Broadband to Every Household’.
These discussions centred on accelerating the growth of Asia Pacific household penetration, advancing the affordability of favourable policies and regulations, and gathering more partners to forge an end-to-end industry ecosystem.
At the summit, Huawei together with Asia Pacific ICT regulators, leading operators and industry organisations launched a joint declaration called ‘Bridge the Digital Divide, Accelerate Broadband to Households’ to endeavour to create a sustainable industry environment for the development of fixed wireless broadband.
The event saw ICT regulators engage in discussion on how fixed wireless broadband can archive the maximum usage for the development of society by policies and regulations including spectrum, tax, land and subsidies.
According to the national broadband targets specified in ITU conference 2018, national broadband penetration will soar from 17 percent to 50 percent within the next three to five years. With mire diversified mobile applications happening in the home, fixed wireless access will be a crucial ingredient in bringing wide coverage and low cost in providing universal broadband services.
WTTX is a home broadband technology using 4G/4.5G technologies to deliver cost-effective fibre-like wireless broadband access to unconnected households. Low deployment costs and operating expenses are among WTTX’S greatest advantages.
Meanwhile, WTTX is making huge progress in terms of speed, and in a number of countries, the results if 4G speed tests are already surpassing those of fixed broadband, with growing numbers everyday.
At a separate media briefing held parallel to the summit, Huawei Technologies Sri Lanka CEO Shunli Wang said that given Sri Lanka’s current domestic household penetration, which is a mere 20 percent, Huawei wants to invest to bring the penetration to at least 50 percent. He said that Huawei will enforce this and other initiatives, keeping a reasonable profit and supporting society with education solutions, banking, transport, healthcare and more.
By 2017, the accumulated WTTX user number had reached 50 million globally. With WTTX, wireless broadband connectivity to unconnected households can be achieved 75 percent cheaper and 90 percent faster when compared to fixed-line deployments, delivering a return on investment to operators in less that three years.
Shunli Wang also added that Huawei plans to continue its student training programme to influence other sectors to align with how ICT will help other industries as well.