HONG KONG, March. 1, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- With shifted focus to joint innovation towards 5G,
the GTI Summit 2017 was held on 28th Feb. at Mobile
World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona, as a significant milestone for the
GTI 2.0 that strives for further promoting 4G evolution and 5G
development, to build everything connected world through
cross-industry collaboration.
The Summit attracted top leaders from operators like Bharti
Airtel, China Mobile, Softbank, Vodafone and vendors as well as
vertical partners, giving their insights and views on trending
topics on 4G and its evolution, 5G strategy, and emerging
opportunities enabled by 5G cross-industry innovation.
According to Mr. Masayoshi Son,
Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp," We have made huge
progress in developing 5G Technology. Last year (2016), a small
group of us agreed in just one day that we will commit to
developing HPUE (High Power UE). This year (2017), 2.5 GHz HPUE
debuts on top Sprint devices, and is approved to be able to cover
99% of 1.9 GHz LTE coverage. This has created $100bn of value for us! In the next 2 years, HPUE
will be available on all new handsets. In September 2016, SoftBank announced the first
commercialization of Massive MIMO worldwide. This technology can
achieve 10 times of data capacity than normal antenna. Furthermore,
toward the era of IoT 1 Trillion, ARM (a SoftBank Group
company) announced last week that it will provide NB-IoT solutions
(Cordio-N) in 2018."
Mr. LI Yue, CEO of China Mobile said: "China Mobile had deployed
1.5 million TD-LTE 4G base stations, and had more than 530 million
4G subscribers as the end of 2016. 4G has greatly changed the
lifestyle, while 5G will reshape the society. China Mobile has
announced the Big Connectivity Strategy and would like to
collaborate with all industry partners to work for New
Technologies, including 5G, Cellular-IoT (Internet of Things), and
implementation of V2X; New Network rebuilt by ICT convergence with
NFV/SDN; and New Ecosystem with capabilities open platforms". Mr.
Li also mentioned that: "China Mobile have established 5G
Innovation Center, by which we would like to do joint innovation
towards 5G with cross-industry partners to embrace the Everything
Connected World."
Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Group said:
"As 4G networks evolve towards 5G, it's important that the industry
works together to ensure that new features and services are
developed using common standards. We look forward to collaborating
with companies and organisations across the ecosystem to research,
develop, trial and standardise new technologies."
Mr. Xu Zhijun, Rotating CEO of
Huawei said, "GTI is an international and open industry platform
incorporating global operators, industry organizations, equipment
providers, terminal manufacturers, and many more outstanding
industry partners. The 5G era features digital transformation in
all walks of life. Based on the GTI industry platform, we are able
to aggregate the power of the entire telecom industry, provide
guidance for governments and industry organizations, deepen
technological exchanges, and explore new business models with
various industry partners. This also helps develop 5G key
technology research, enable diverse applications, and continuously
promote digital transformation for a better ecosystem."
"Thinking 10 years ahead and pushing the limits of technology,
we imagine a Future X Network that is a 10-fold improvement across
key technology domains," said Mr. Risto
Siilasmaa, Chairman of Nokia. "We are connecting everything,
everyone and every system and process with a network that will
enable us to explore and interact with information in new and
useful ways."
"Qualcomm Technologies is proud to help lead the world towards
rapid development and deployment of 5G NR by working with others in
the industry," said Matt Grob,
executive vice president and chief technology officer, Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc. "We continue to utilize our expertise in 3G and
4G to bring 5G to fruition, in turn helping to elevate mobile into
a technology that changes the world."
As connected-car has become one of the most inspiring area
enabled by cellular network, GTI and 5GAA (5G Automotive
Association) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during GTI
Summit, and jointly announced a statement for Cellular-V2X (C-V2X)
industry development promoting a unified standard, innovative and
converged ecosystem. By this statement, telecom and automotive
sectors will work closely on C-V2X use cases and scenarios,
solutions and trials, standardization and spectrum, business model
and go-to-market strategies to achieve the success of thriving
C-V2X market and create a new era of Internet of vehicles.
Besides, to promote 4G evolution towards 5G for laying solid
foundation of cross-industry innovation, GTI released three major
achievements including the white paper of Future Spectrum
Initiative to guide efficient spectrum usage, whitepapers on
Massive MIMO and Fixed Wireless Broadband to promote improvements
in performance and system evolution, and facilitate operators with
new business growth, and High Power UE products and solutions on
Band 41, to improve cell edge performance and lower down carriers'
investment cost.
In order to acknowledge significant contribution to the industry
and GTI achievements in 2016, GTI Awards were also presented at the
summit. Samsung, Qualcomm and R&S won awards on
"innovative technical product", while Huawei, ZTE and Keysight won
awards on "innovative solution and application", for their
outstanding accomplishment on HPUE, Massive MIMO, uplink
enhancement solution and etc. Besides, Bharti Airtel, KDDI and RJIO
were granted awards of "market development" for their significant
achievement in promoting TD-LTE and LTE TDD/FDD global deployment.
Honorary awards, newly set up this year, were
granted Mr.Prakash Bhart from Vodafone, Dr. Herkole Save from
Sprint, Mr. Eric Ekudden from
Ericsson, and TDD teams of Nokia and Huawei, for their active
contribution to the GTI and TDD industry as a whole.
About 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.