New technologies and engineering such as Massive Beam and Cell Free to achieve greater capacity and better edge experience;

We can select three aspects to delve into how wireless networks can serve as the cornerstone of the AI era, and how global operators can leverage wireless network innovations to capture broader value in the intelligent age.

Today’s wireless communication technologies are already remarkable, but where can they go next to break capacity boundaries and achieve next-generation upgrades?

According to the technical vision outlined in the next-generation wireless network standards being developed by the ITU, key goals for next-gen wireless networks include a 3x improvement in spectral efficiency and edge experience speeds of 300M-500Mbps. The former aims to expand pipeline capacity and boost communication rates, while the latter seeks to enhance user experience by delivering highly consistent network services.

Massive Beam and Cell-Free technologies are pivotal to realizing these two ITU visions. Massive Beam, through ultra-large-scale antenna arrays and intelligent algorithms, precisely focuses wireless signal energy on user terminals, creating “parallel communication channels” in the spatial domain. It enables ultra-large-scale Massive MIMO, approaching the Shannon limit and potentially achieving the 3x spectral efficiency target.

Cell-Free technology, on the other hand, breaks the morphological constraints of cellular networks, improving edge performance by over 10x and ensuring consistent network experiences anytime, anywhere. This meets the Mobile AI service requirements of 20-100Mbps for uplink and 300-500Mbps for downlink. Technically, Cell-Free allows each user to be simultaneously served by numerous nearby APs, forming an exclusive communication domain. This shifts wireless networks from being base station-centric to user-centric.

The combination of Massive Beam and Cell-Free is expected to address the two major challenges of improving spectral efficiency and ensuring network consistency in future wireless networks, thereby meeting the network demands brought by technological innovations such as AI agents and AI glasses. For example, AI glasses equipped with intelligent agents need to support functions like AI object recognition with sub-100ms response, real-time cross-language translation, and AR navigation. These require devices to stably upload 4K videos at 30 frames per second and voice data with a 16kHz sampling rate. A network with high uplink capacity and stable performance anywhere is essential to support mobile intelligent agents like AI glasses. Thus, Massive Beam + Cell-Free will serve as a future anchor point where AI innovation intersects with wireless network evolution.

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