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Title: Huawei Chair Says the Future of Comms Is Fiber-To-The-Room

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/2224236/h...

The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: Huawei's chairman Xu Zhijun -- aka
Eric Xu -- has called out China's enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR)
installations. Speaking at last week's Mobile World Congress event in
Shanghai, Xu shared his views on the telecommunications industry's future
growth opportunities and said by the end of 2025 China will be home to 75
million FTTR installations -- but just 500,000 exist outside the Middle
Kingdom. Xu said FTTR will benefit businesses by increasing their internet
connection speeds, helping them address spotty Wi-Fi coverage, allowing them
to deploy tech in more places, and therefore creating more opportunities to
adopt productivity-boosting devices and services. FTTR will also help
carriers to sell more expensive packages, he said. Xu also urged telecom
carriers to target high-growth user groups like delivery riders and
livestream influencers, citing their above-average data consumption and
revenue potential. Delivery riders, who will make up 5% of the global
workforce by 2030, use four times more voice minutes and double the data of
average users, while influencers generate five times the data usage and four
times the revenue. He also pushed for greater collaboration between carriers
and platforms to deliver more high-res video content, and called for improved
efficiency in networking equipment and device power use. "Xu said Huawei is
here to help carriers deliver any of the scenarios he mentioned," concludes
Sharwood. "And of course it is, because the Chinese giant has a thriving
business selling to telcos -- or at least to telcos beyond the liberal
democracies that have largely decided Huawei's close ties with Beijing mean
the company and its products represent an unacceptable threat to the
operation of critical infrastructure."

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