Huawei’s annual analyst summit, hosted in Shenzhen last week, was dominated by the vendor’s own campaign to expand on the well-known triangle of 5G use cases (eMBB, mMTC and URLLC), and create three more that redress the balance in favor of the uplink and the enterprise. These come under the banner of 5.5G (naturally), and consist of: Uplink-centric broadband communication (UCBC) Real time broadband communication (RTBC) Harmonized communication and sensing (HCS) Huawei has been touting these three cases since its 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF), where its executive director, David Wang, described them as cornerstones of the company’s vision for the next phase of 5G development. As Wang put it then: “5.5G is our vision for the industry. It…