Huawei Announces Three Cooperative Directions for TechCity 2018 to Accelerate Monetization of New Technologies
[London, UK, November 16, 2017] At the Global Mobile Broadband Forum, Huawei announced three cooperative directions of TechCity for 2018. Huawei is excited and honored to work together with global operators towards building a leadership position from the aspects of technology, business, and social responsibility. TechCity will contribute to better connected cities and an enriched City life.
In 2018, TechCity will focus on three cooperative directions to accelerate monetization.
1. Mobile Enable Digitalized Industries: Mobile Empowers Operators to Enter Diverse Industries
TechCity allows operators to quickly verify innovative solutions. TechCity gathers Huawei, operators, and governments to continue fostering NB-IoT applications that meet local demands while exploring broadband IoT cases to create digital smart cities. WTTx serves as the fourth connection mode following fiber, copper, and cable. WTTx will connect all the unconnected ranging from users to households and enterprises to enable digital broadband cities. Low-latency LTE features (such as Short TTI) help incubate assisted driving cases and improve the efficiency of urban transportation systems. In addition, operator's LTE networks can replace the original narrowband trunking systems with an abundance of broadband trunking services to ensure public Safety. These services include push to video, video surveillance, drone inspection, which help convey an approach of "Seeing is believing" and ultimately improve work efficiency of public safety personnel within a Safe City. In the future, Mobile will empower operators to enter diverse industries. It also let operators enter the new business blue ocean market and monetize business leadership.
2. Gigabit Experience City: Drive Basic Urban Communication Capability Upgrade
Giga experience will serve as a new experience standard, driving upgrades of basic urban communication capability. Huawei possesses cutting-edge innovative technologies, such as multi-antenna, multi-carrier CA, Small Cell, and 5G. With TechCity as the fast track of new technology, operators can continuously enhance network capabilities to meet growing experience requirements of urban consumers. TechCity can also satisfy operators' business demands in different capacity scenarios and provide 5G-oriented Giga experience to monetize leadership in technology and business.
3. Building Ecosystem for Digital Society: Create Better Connected Cities
A digital society is designed to incubate future-oriented applications. Global operators are highly advised to develop capabilities in terms of teams, ecosystem, business structure, governmental cooperation, These capabilities are key to digital transformation across diverse industries for a better connected world. Huawei is willing and eager to engage in further collaboration with customers and launch TechCity to build an industry ecosystem for a digital society. Specific areas of focus include:
• Governmental cooperation: Huawei and operators can encourage governments to open public resources, lift industry restrictions, and develop public service standards (such as a national broadband white paper).
• Industry collaboration: Huawei and operators can promote the maturity of the industry chain (such as terminals and chips) and interoperability of industry applications (especially for local industries). This helps operators develop new digital applications (adaptable to their networks) and quickly enter a broad range of vertical industries.
• Business incubation: Huawei and operators can establish networks for small-scale commercial deployment, while verifying new technology and fostering new business models in advance. These actions help to ready for the rapid commercialization of digitalized applications.
Global operators are basic network providers, and are solemn and inescapable to laying a solid foundation for continuous emergence of new applications in a future-proof digital society. TechCity will make operators to build a robust ecosystem for better connected cities.
TechCity 2018: Enrich City Life
Dr. Peter Zhou, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line, indicated that, "Technological and business successes are both indispensable. Network innovation aims to deliver more and more business growth. With a clear-cut long-term strategy and direction, operators are advised to accelerate commercial deployment and the monetization of TechCity new technologies in small increments, but at an increasingly expedited pace. In 2018, Huawei plans to cooperate with global operators and implement TechCity in over 16 cities, with a keen focus on Mobile Enabling Digitalized Industries, Gigabit Experience City, and Building Ecosystems for Digital Society. In-depth cooperation in these three directions is set to enrich city life and create a better connected city."
In 2017, global operators closely worked with Huawei to launch TechCity which has emerged as a bridge between a multitude of applications and commercial deployments.
In November 2016, Huawei released the TechCity 2.0 concept at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum held in Japan. Until November 2017, when Huawei created 14 TechCities in partnership with mainstream operators, vertical industry partners, and government sectors. Over 15 innovative wireless solutions have been deployed throughout 12 TechCities. The localized business cases of three new services (LiTRA, WTTx, and NB-IoT) have been incubated and put into small-scale commercial use across 11 TechCities. TechCity helps global operators rapidly deploy innovative wireless technologies, while implementing large-scale incubation of new applications and business models according to local requirements. TechCity has emerged as a bridge between a multitude of applications and commercial deployments.
The TechCity project will span across 16 global cities when Seoul Korea (LG U+) and St. Petersburg Russia (MegaFon) plan to launch the TechCity project in 2018.
