HONG KONG, Feb. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GTI Summit
2018, with the theme of "5G+AI, Fuel the Innovation",
was successfully held on 27th Feb.,
2018 in Barcelona, Spain
during Mobile World Congress 2018. Delegates from governments,
organizations, operators, vertical and partners attended this
summit to discuss how 5G and AI will enable the future innovations
to create the intelligent world.
Operators actively drive 5G development and explore 5G use
cases closely with verticals to pave the way for a smarter
society.
Mr. Shang Bin, Chairman of China Mobile stated that China Mobile
will start 5G scale-up trials in 5 cities and 5G application
showcase in 12 cities, propel core network transformation and RAN
evolution in 2018 to speed up 5G end-to-end development. China
Mobile will also actively promote 5G+AI innovation to pioneer 5G
smart network for intelligent operation, and to enable the
intelligent connectivity and applications for all aspects of life.
In this summit, based on 2 years efforts and collaboration with 112
partners in 5G Innovation Center, China
Mobile kicked off 5G Innovative Application Campaign,
providing 5G end-to-end environment in 12 open labs world widely,
to prepare 5G service innovation for 5G pre-commercial showcase in
2019.
Bharti Airtel introduced the multifold challenges of network and
socio economic in India. It is
believed that new services in 5G era will definitely solve these
problems. Bharti will take this opportunity to build the 5G network
to support the industry pillars of "DIGITAL INDIA" by providing superior user experience
diversified applications.
Deutsche Telekom stated that in the customer-centric 5G network,
addressing and knowing well about customer demand is critical and
DT's 5G network slicing will be the tailored network solutions for
the diversified industry demands.
NTT DOCOMO shared the vision of wonderful future life in 2020s
with intelligent connectivity and innovative use cases, which 5G
and AI will bring. NTT DOCOMO would like to co-create enhanced user
experience and new market using 5G and AI with partners across
industries, and will open AI Agent API to help co-create new
value.
At this Summit, AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT
DOCOMO and Orange jointly founded the world-wide ORAN Alliance to
empower the next generation RAN with deeply imbedded intelligence,
much higher efficiency, lower cost, greater agility and
flexibility, and zero-touch automation. AT&T, Orange and all
the founding members stated they will devote to the new open RAN in
ORAN Alliance.
Verticals expect the fast development of 5G and AI
technology, which will bring new opportunities and innovation
applications to all aspects of society. Christoph Voigt, Chairman of 5GAA (5G Automotive
Association) believes that the 5G+AI will make the autonomous
driving a reality with ultra-low latency, high-reliability, and
intelligent driving system. ABB emphasize robots, wireless
connectivity and intelligent digitalization will play critical
roles in the Forth Industrial Revolution. 5G + AI will enable
paradigm shift in manufacturing which deliver faster time to
market, higher flexibility, higher productivity and lower cost.
Delegate of CEPRI of State Grid Corporation of China shares the
5G+AI requirements including high speed, Ubiquitous perception,
always on-line, intelligence to achieve the smarter future of
internet of energy.
End-to-end industry are putting more efforts to bringing 5G
into a reality. Qualcomm, ZTE, Nokia, Huawei and Ericsson
shared their progress on the latest development status of 5G
technology, products and trials. With AI and cloud architecture,
the 5G network will become more intelligent, agile and flexible to
facilitate the service and application innovation with verticals.
The smarter 5G devices is one of the keys to usher a 5G new era.
Therefore, with 20 industry partners, China Mobile released 5G
Terminal Forerunner Plan to promote the maturity of 5G chipset,
component and terminals, and to improve the time to market of 5G
pre-commercial products.
5G is believed to be a key enabler for innovative services and
applications in next few years that should reshape our society and
various verticals in a way we have never seen before. And
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also a very promising technology
which could penetrate into all aspects of our society. When 5G
encounters AI, our world is filled with even much more
possibilities and inspirations which will take innovation to
another level. In the future, GTI will continue to hold hands with
industrial partners to build an effective international cooperation
platform to promote 5G commercialization and 5G joint
innovation.
What is GTI?
Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI), founded in 2011, has been
dedicated to constructing a robust ecosystem of TD-LTE, speeding up
the commercialization of TD-LTE and promoting the convergence of
LTE TDD and FDD. As 4G evolves to 5G, GTI 2.0 was officially
launched at the GTI Summit 2016 during the Mobile World Congress
2016 in Barcelona, aiming not only
to further promote the evolution of TD-LTE and its global
deployment, but also fostering a cross-industry innovative and a
synergistic 5G ecosystem.
GTI Summit is a premier event that industry
professionals should attend. This summit brings together the
industry's most influential decision makers, policy makers and
partners from around the globe to discuss the latest industry
trends, share cutting-edge technologies and release innovative
achievements. It is held three times a year in Barcelona Spain, Shanghai China and America respectively.
Contact:
Yu, Jiang Yujiang@chinamobile.com
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