While much of the discourse in the telecom industry is currently focused on 5G, Chinese ICT firm Huawei is pushing for deployment of its 4.5G solutions as a way to extend the utility of existing LTE networks while building a bridge to an ultimate 5G standard.
Huawei initially unveiled 4.5G in Dubai in 2014, and, in December 2015, Huawei and TeliaSonera Norway demonstrated 4.5G over a live commercial network in Oslo using spectrum in the 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands.
