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AlcaLu sees “technology requirements. 5G can become the
push” as 5G hype driver;
regrets 4.5G moniker network that unites technologies in a
way that creates a better end-user
experience – if the industry
ecosystem can see the value in ‘one MANAGING EDITOR:
Justin Springham
network to rule them all’ – 5G can be
SENIOR EDITOR:
the overseer of the synergies Steve Costello
between many different CONTRIBUTORS:
Saleha Riaz,
technologies that each add their own Ronan Shields,
Richard Handford,
By Steve Costello direction of research and standards; capacity issues where heavy users unique value,” the executive said. Paul Rasmussen,
and another which is driven by are connected to networks. And the Anne Morris,
Despite being one of the hot- commercial and operational needs second is “enabling the world of Peeters also took a light-hearted Joanne Taaffe,
topics here at Mobile World which are trying to understand how ubiquitous IoT” – “where an infinity Joseph Waring,
Congress this week, 5G is 5G fits into future operations and of devices (real, or virtual i.e. view of the term ‘4.5G’, which many Ken Wieland
“still a technology push story, not a revenue streams. It is clear that applications) each use almost zero
market pull one”, Michael Peeters, today the first one is the more bandwidth, but nonetheless eat up in the industry – including Alcatel- ALL ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES TO:
Wireless CTO for Alcatel-Lucent, important one,” he said. all of the control plane of the showdailysales@mobileworldcongress.com
told Mobile World Daily. network. Lucent – have used to describe
There are two “likely, or rather, PUBLISHER:
“Operators have two primary visible” paths for operators looking “IoT today is a catch-all which technology beyond LTE-Advanced. Rick Costello
approaches to 5G: one which is to make the most of 5G, Peeters contains wearables, objects about
driven by their research continued. the house, white goods that are “We’re already sorry we ever PRODUCTION MANAGER:
organisations which need to powered, cars, camera networks and Samantha Burke
understand whatever 5G may be in The first will be through the whatnot – indeed a huge spectrum used the term. We’d said in some
order to be ready and to drive the continued support of “ultra of bandwidth and connectivity ART DIRECTION & PRODUCTION:
broadband applications”, solving talks that we’d call the set of Russell Smith, IntuitiveDesign UK Ltd.,
13 North St, Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Maldon,
foundational technologies ‘4.5G’ Essex CM9 8TF, UK,
email: russell@intuitive-design.co.uk
as an easy shorthand.
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market of the group, which has 34 million An exit was the best option,
subscribers across ten markets. with a sale to rival TeliaSonera A GSMA Publication
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Tele2 CEO Mats Granyd ($133 million) annually from 2018 However, regulatory approval
argued the firm’s recently onwards. was first needed for the In an effort to minimise the environmental impact of
announced efficiency drive consolidation. The Norwegian our event, the GSMA promotes the usage of recycled
is its best bet in an unpredictable Granyd believes the programme Competition Authority gave its materials and waste reduction wherever possible.
world. is necessary in a world where rival blessing last month. “We have Building on this commitment, we are now pursuing
operators are not the only threat to landed in a good deal for Tele2, official Carbon Neutral certification of Mobile World
Granyd, due to speak in Tele2: ”The world is changing in an TeliaSonera and our Norwegian Congress under the international standard PAS 2060.
Tuesday’s conference session on ever-faster way and we see customers,” said Granyd.
M&A, ran through the reasons increased competition not only
behind Tele2’s Challenger from our usual competitors but also His other lesson for the mobile
from outside our industry. They will industry is the adoption of a data-
come after us and we need to be centric model. “The future is data –
even more efficient to meet that I am certain of that.” In 2015, data
competition.” traffic in Sweden grew by 31 per
cent, he said. With voice and text
And Granyd noted just how facing a “flat development”,
volatile the mobile market has operators must monetise their data
become, as it lost out in a traffic.
December 2013 spectrum auction
in Norway. The defeat left the
Telstra calls for industry
collaboration to realise IoT potential
OFFICIAL MWC 15 PARTY By Anne Morris World Daily ahead of her panel majority of IoT solutions will use a
appearance at Congress this week. short range radio to connect to a
T U E S DAY 3 M A R C H 2 0 : 3 0 - L AT E Telstra said enabling the local gateway that then backhauls
TICKETS ON SALE NOW Internet of Things (IoT) will A fundamental role of the the data via fixed line or cellular
THEMMIX.COM raise a number of challenges telecoms operator will be to connectivity.
and opportunities for operators at provide a range of networks for
the network, application and service IoT: McKenzie noted that Australia- Operators are also providing
level, requiring industry-wide based Telstra today provides a network-agnostic cloud platform
collaboration as operators and number of connectivity options for service for IoT solutions, which are
enterprises tackle the velocity, its customers including cellular, designed to make it easier for
volume and variety of data satellite, ADSL, cable and Wi-Fi. companies to connect, monitor and
generated by millions of IoT devices. control devices via a range of
However, McKenzie noted that physical layer connectivity options.
“Just because devices are the role of the operator will also
connected doesn’t mean they will depend on the market: “IoT is not A further key investment area is
be able to interact in a meaningful one consistent market: it is made big data analytics due to the
way. Due to IoT covering a large up of many different vertical growing demand by businesses to
number of different technologies markets that are at different stages handle and derive insights from the
and vertical markets there are many of development, have different large volumes of data being
different standards and it will be requirements, and use different generated by their systems.
important for industry to work technologies,” she commented.
together to ensure that the potential “IoT devices in aggregate can
of IoT is realised,” said Telstra COO While some IoT solutions will generate large volumes of data for a
Kate McKenzie, speaking to Mobile use cellular, satellite and other wide business, and ‘big data’ solutions will
area networks to directly connect be needed by enterprise customers
to the internet, McKenzie said the who are adopting IoT,” said McKenzie.
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