Digital transformation powered by 5G-related technologies can – and does – provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with tangible benefits in terms of increased productivity, reduced costs, improved data collection and business analytics, better employee and customer experience, and optimised backend processes. Throughout the Southeast Asian region, and indeed the world, smaller businesses that have embarked on incorporating 5G into their operational systems have reaped real-world advantages despite any upfront costs that they may have incurred.
In China, for instance, Zhejiang Hotel Star Technology Co Ltd (Hotel Star) is an SME that specialises in producing medium- and high-grade corrugated boxes. As the company scaled up its production at its plant in Ningbo, its existing Wi-Fi-based wireless infrastructure was unable to keep up. Hotel Star needed to connect a large number of devices and machinery to an array of various services, connect its internal network to its cloud-based big data platform, and simultaneously support applications such as machine vision. Deploying a private 5G network was the solution Hotel Star went with, given the low latency, high reliability, high connectivity, and high speed that 5G offered. As a result, Hotel Star achieved a 35% improvement in production efficiency, a 15% improvement in storage efficiency, and a 15% reduction in manpower investment.
SMEs don’t need to use private 5G networks to gain benefits either. The mere presence of a public 5G network, for instance, had a great impact on those who make their living fishing off the coast of Yangjiang, China. Using Huawei’s 5G MetaAAU technology, fishermen are able to experience stable, uninterrupted downlink speeds of 400Mbps at distances up to 30km offshore, and 60Mbps beyond that (up to 61km).
Places that have deployed the 5G MetaAAU technology see an uptick in the average number of users by 19%, with the uplink traffic increasing by 43%, while the downlink traffic increased by almost 25%, according to communications service provider (CSP) China Unicom Guangdong. Fishermen are able to keep in touch with their loved ones, stay updated on the news and weather warning messages, watch videos on demand, as well as use online and social media platforms to sell their fish in real time.
Closer to home, mobile telcos and CSPs in Malaysia that specialise in 5G planning, deployment, and maintenance, such as CelcomDigi Business, cater to the varying needs of SMEs across a variety of industry sectors to ensure SMEs get the best out of their 5G solutions. CelcomDigi Business, the business arm of CelcomDigi Berhad, boasts Malaysia’s widest, largest, and fastest mobile broadband network, providing its customers with industry-leading expertise while pioneering 5G-powered solutions.
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