Working collaboratively to create a hyper-connected world

Extensive and dynamic

Networks will need to offer full global coverage for wireless communications. They’ll need to be capable of managing extreme and dynamic performance in terms of data rates, latency, and the capacity to handle trillions of embedded devices, from tiny sensors to devices enabling multi-sensory immersive communication. They’ll need to do this without increasing – and even while reducing – energy consumption in the network.

Highly intelligent

To be deployed at the required scale, global networks will need to be operated with minimal human intervention, using centralized and decentralized AI to ensure appropriate service availability and energy efficiency. The network will need to become ‘cognitive’ – capable of learning and adapting, making decisions, and solving problems itself. The AI in the network will need to be ‘intent-driven’, working towards a specific outcome set by humans, with decision-making that is explainable and free of bias, to make sure we can trust and understand the decisions made.

Resilient and trustworthy

With increased dependence on mobile networks will come increased pressure for systems to be trustworthy and secure. The technical abilities required – reliability, availability, resilience, security, and privacy – are inherent in networks today. But they will need to be extended with new technologies and capabilities, such as using ‘digital twins’ to model risks in the network, and using AI to predict and respond to threats in real-time.

Capable of processing anywhere

To support the incredible array of applications we envisage in future, mobile networks will need to evolve – from classical architectures where processing happens in centralized servers, to a model where complex and real-time processing is distributed and tightly integrated through-out the network. This approach will require a ‘multi-cloud’ model and will continually embrace new processing innovation in areas such as quantum computing.

Orchestrating the future ecosystems

Creator and innovator

We will create the networks we need for the future. We will use our position as a technology leader to continue to develop and build energy efficient networks that are extensive and dynamic, highly intelligent, resilient and trustworthy, and capable of processing anywhere, so that they can meet the needs of the next decade and beyond.

Ecosystem orchestrator

We will continue to shape the industry for the benefit of everyone, by taking an increasingly active role as an orchestrator of ecosystems. This means:

• continuing to define the open standards that enable mobile innovation to thrive
• bringing together partners across eco-systems to collaborate, innovate and kindle new ideas
• evolving the ways in which we can expose network functions and capabilities in order to allow innovation to scale without friction
• forming partnerships with other vendors and critical technology providers to ensure we fully explore and realize the full possibilities of limitless connectivity

Service providers

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Enterprises

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