Cost efficiency: Most of the Pre5G technologies evolve smoothly based on a 4G network without great changes to the network. Moreover, as Pre5G is deployed in high-traffic areas and for high-rate services and high-end user groups, it can obtain high returns on a relatively small investment.

Network performance: Pre5G increases spectral efficiency by six to eight folds, which is close to the ultimate spectral efficiency limit of 5G. This helps operators address the issue of limited spectrum resources. Pre5G also provides low latency and massive access capabilities to support new services as well as cloud-based solutions to build more flexible, open and synergy networks.

Above all, the early commercial use of certain key 5G techniques including Pre5G Massive MIMO enables ZTE to obtain rich commercial experience and measured data from actual network scenarios. This provides valuable real data and new channel models for 3GPP and ITU, and gives the references for future 5G commercial deployment. Pre5G benefits 4G networks and users as well as future 5G networks, serving as the bridge from 4G to 5G.