{"id":49014,"date":"2013-11-06T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=49014"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T08:35:04","slug":"huawei-pumps-600-million-into-5g-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/49014\/huawei-pumps-600-million-into-5g-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei pumps $600 million into &#8220;5G&#8221; research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei Technologies Co will invest at least $600 million in 5G research over the next four years, the Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we continue to evolve our existing 4G network capabilities, we plan to invest a minimum of $600 million over the next five years on research and innovation for 5G mobile network technologies to ensure that we are meeting consumers&#8217; demands for increasingly faster and better connections,&#8221; Eric Xu, Huawei&#8217;s current rotating chief executive, said in the statement on the company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>This figure does not include investment in 5G products, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The company sees 5G networks ready for commercial deployment by 2020, delivering data speeds 100 times faster than 4G networks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news on\u00a0Huawei<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Huawei sees double digit growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/45762\/huawei-sees-double-digit-growth\/\"><strong>Huawei sees double digit growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huawei appoints new CEO for South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/44973\/huawei-appoints-new-ceo-for-south-africa\/\"><strong>Huawei appoints new CEO for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Huawei CEO successor not a family choice\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/36819\/huawei-ceo-successor-not-a-family-choice\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huawei CEO successor not a family choice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Huawei, ZTE in trouble in the EU\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/37849\/huawei-zte-in-trouble-in-the-eu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huawei, ZTE in trouble in the EU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei Technologies Co will invest at least $600 million in 5G research over the next four years, the Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5823,25,1635],"class_list":["post-49014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-5g-technology","tag-active","tag-huawei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49015,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49014\/revisions\/49015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}