At a high-security inspection of the Evergreen Group's Seventh Container Terminal on May 7, Chunghwa Telecom's CTO & SEVP, Chih-Hsiung Huang, acknowledged that limitations in domestic 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technology have made it unsuitable for the expansive port environment. As a result, the 5G private network deployed at the terminal continues to rely on base stations provided by Nokia and Ericsson.
Since the US government opened a 90-day window for reciprocal tariff exemption negotiations, the market widely expects a strong wave of early inventory pull-ins during this period. Semiconductor firms are already bracing for a surge of rush orders. IC design companies report that customers in the server and networking sectors are especially aggressive in restocking.
The supply chain expects Wi-Fi 7 to replace Wi-Fi 6 as the market mainstream by 2025, gradually. Despite optimism among certain sectors about Wi-Fi 7's increasing market penetration, differing opinions persist about whether Wi-Fi 7 will emerge as the dark horse of the communications industry in 2025, based on trends observed at the MWC 2025 exhibition.
