LONDON, Nov. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 8th Global
Mobile Broadband Forum, Ryan Ding,
Huawei Executive Director and President of the Carrier Business
Group, called on global carriers to incubate new services based on
4.5G networks to build new capabilities in advance of 5G
emergence.
In his keynote speech titled New Capabilities, New Business, New
Growth, Ryan Ding noted that the
flourishing development of wireless communications over the past
nearly 100 years has driven continuous growth across the industry.
Smartphones appeared a decade ago, resulting in explosive growth in
mobile data service and drove global mobile carrier revenue beyond
the US$1 trillion. Looking to the
future, new 5G services will enable new growth in all industries
and reshape the entire world. These changes will also open up new
space for carriers to achieve sustainable growth.
3GPP has defined two commercial use cases of 5G: enhanced mobile
broadband (eMBB) and fixed wireless access (FWA). As industry
demand for IoT grows, new 5G services will penetrate deeply into
homes and vertical industries, bringing many new business
opportunities. To seize the new business opportunities of the 5G
era, carriers need to build new business capabilities tailored to
5G in addition to the technical capabilities.
However, capabilities aren't developed overnight. Before new 5G
services take off, carriers need to incubate new services based on
existing 4.5G networks. To this end, they need to find their
footing in both WTTx and NB-IoT, and build new end-to-end
capabilities including organizational capabilities, operational
capabilities, and ecosystem capabilities. The ultimate goal is to
support the successful commercial application of 5G.
Accelerating the development of WTTx and ensuring the success
of the first 5G commercial use case (FWA)
WTTx has become one of the four mainstream ways of providing
home broadband access along with fiber, copper, and cable. Ovum
predicts that by 2020, wireless networks will provide broadband
access services to 350 million homes around the world. WTTx is set
to become one of the major revenue sources of mobile carriers. The
WTTx commercial use is accelerating on 4.5G networks. By the end of
2017, there will be 200 WTTx networks deployed around the world,
connecting 50 million homes.
WTTx users will generate higher average revenue per unit (ARPU),
higher data of usage (DoU), and higher concurrency at night, and
user location is fixed. To adapt to these new characteristics,
carriers need to build new end-to-end capabilities to support the
development of wireless home broadband services. These capabilities
include target area planning, network assessment and deployment,
service provisioning, as well as O&M.
Huawei unveiled its WTTx business solution at the MBBF 2017.
This solution is based on the profile of users, helping carriers
accurately identify high-value areas and target users. With this
solution, carriers can build competitive network with fiber-like
experience. As services are rolled out, they can precisely and
rapidly acquire users and provision services at low cost.
Starting IoT from NB-IoT
Gartner predicts that by 2025, the IoT market volume could be
1.9 trillion US dollars. In the next
2-3 years, carriers can incubate NB-IoT services through 4.5G
networks. Globally, carriers are using NB-IoT to win a leading
position in the IoT market, and are competing fiercely to launch
NB-IoT to market. By the end of 2017, 30 NB-IoT networks will be
deployed around the world, that number will increase to over 100 by
the end of 2018.
IoT services are different from human-centric networks in many
aspects, such as business models, billing systems, network
deployment, device management, and service management. Carriers can
use NB-IoT to explore new capabilities, including organizational
structure and operational capabilities. They also need to build
"GLocal" (Global + Local) ecosystem capabilities.
Huawei unveiled its NB-IoT business solution during the MBB
Forum, this solution incorporates service integration, network
deployment, service provisioning and network operation. In the
service integration stage, Huawei has built an NB-IoT Commercial
Use Case Library which includes 12 mature use cases, the
information about relevant partners, and business model
analysis.
Low-cost trial and error and ongoing exploration of new 5G
services
Huawei established Wireless X Labs in 2016 to bring carriers and
partners together to explore and develop innovative applications
and build new ecosystems.
Through a process of selection and sequencing, X Labs has
identified ten of the most promising 5G use cases, including cloud
VR/AR, connected automotive, smart manufacturing, connected energy,
wireless eHealth, wireless home entertainment, connected drones,
social networks, personal AI assistant, and Smart City. X Labs will
update the use cases as research continues, and publicize the
research results. Ding noted that carriers can choose any of the 5G
applications based on their own strategy.
Concluding his remarks, Ding said, "5G will unleash huge
business potential for carriers. Huawei looks forward to using
innovative business solutions to help carriers build new
capabilities and incubate new services, so as to achieve new growth
in the coming 5G era."
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