YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Huawei and NTT DOCOMO, INC., has completed a successful joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39 GHz Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band in Yokohama, one of largest commercial areas in Japan. In this trial, the downlink data transmissions were achieved at a maximum speed over 2 Gbps on a testing vehicle which was equipped with a user equipment (UE) equivalent to a mobile phone, while driving at speeds over 20 km per hour.

This successful trial result opens up new door for applications and deployments of 5G mmWave. Long-distance mobility transmission over 5G mmWave is one of the enabling technologies to realize 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and ubiquitous connectivity of massive data rate whilst fully leveraging the current macro-cellular sites investment by operators.

Takehiro Nakamura, Vice President and Managing Director of 5G Laboratory at NTT DOCOMO said, “Long-distance transmission over 39GHz mmWave will enable 5G network deployments in a large scale. It opens up the new stage of the 39GHz mmWave technology and will deliver the ultra-fast experience with 5G high data speed.”

Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei Fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless Networks, said “It is technological challenge and opportunity to use the long-distance transmission of 5G mmWave Mobile Communications technology, the wireless industry will start using the new spectrum 100 times broader than current network to foster next wave of innovations. The 5G mmWave technology will help our customer to reuse the existing network infrastructure, especially for sites resource, to protect their investment. This test is first time successfully to verify the long distance transmission of 5G mmWave, Huawei will continue to innovate to make 5G mmWave a success.”

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd