2017 Top 3 Carrier Offensive Themes

 (The following information is extracted from Optical Communication Network)

In the era of mobile Internet, the global telecom industry is seeking new operating models to achieve revenue growth, and transformation has become a strategic theme for global telecom operators.

So, against this backdrop, what are the top 5 new areas that Telecom, Unicom and Mobile can explore for growth in 2017?

Exploring converged information services for the Industrial Internet is the direction of transformation. In4G/5GIn the era of industrial Internet and Internet of Everything, rapid adaptation to the new round of changes in industrial technology has become the core driving force for the sustainable development of telecom operators. China's telecom operators should do the following five points in their expansion into emerging fields such as industrial Internet and Internet of Things.

First, promote technological evolution and upgrading, and accelerate the construction of new networks. From Europe and the United States transformation model, the transformation and development of the telecommunications industry can not be separated from the solid network infrastructure support, China's operators should continue to accelerate the construction of high-speed broadband network, promote the evolution and upgrading of broadband infrastructure, and build a more flexible and efficient new generation of network architecture. Establishment of IT-enabled network, the goal is to upgrade the network and the construction of new facilities, to promote network capacity to improve the unit cost of network operation and maintenance of the first level of network to reduce; strengthen the construction of platform, focusing on the creation of the ability to open platform to meet the open access to allow multi-application and multi-scenario invocation of the platform capabilities, and layered hierarchical manageable and controllable.

Secondly, we have deepened traffic management and improved the level of refined traffic management and operation. For individuals, reduce traffic tariffs and promote user traffic consumption; for enterprises, introduce new methods such as targeted traffic, time-sharing billing and backward operation. Promote the penetration of 4G terminals and accelerate the substitution of 2G users. Especially for mobile disadvantaged operators, they should build 4G networks as soon as possible, promote the development and penetration of 4G users, weaken the dependence on 2G/3G, and accelerate the leap to 5G. Open up large-value voice and large-value point-to-point SMS packages to accelerate the traffic operation towards a substantial shift; it may consider cooperating with Internet enterprises in the form of targeted traffic/service package packages to increase the value of traffic and cultivate users' habit of paying for large-value traffic and paying according to the value of services.

Thirdly, it is actively laying out the emerging field of IoT. While exploring key industries such as mobile medical applications and car networking applications for the automobile industry, the construction of IoT platforms should be strengthened to prepare for the comprehensive application of IoT in various industries. Actively explore smart family services, digitalized family life services formed by integrating broadband interconnected Internet, entertainment and information services and smart home life. For example, broadband family, information family, healthy family, eco-family, entertainment family, automated family and wireless family, all covering different periods of keywords in it. The core of this is interconnection, entertainment and intelligence, interactive entertainment and home information services with Internet experience, and smart home integration solutions based on the Internet of Things.

Fourth, promote competition and synergy to create an ecological environment. The development of the Internet makes OTT business impact on traditional telecommunications business at the same time, but also for operators to bring the growth of data traffic revenue. From the U.S. experience, a good ecological environment is the basis for mutual symbiosis and co-growth. Promote the development of Internet partners with an open mind, and Internet development drives the increase of traffic demand and the increase of consumers' willingness to consume. Through the opening up of capabilities and the cooperation of camping and service resources, we can accelerate the promotion of the rapid popularization of new digital services and promote the increase of social demand, thus driving the growth of income.

Fifth, actively explore mixed ownership reform. Explore innovative modes of joint ventures and cooperation, try to restructure state-owned capital investment and operation companies, and establish a modern enterprise system under diversified property rights; further improve the structure of the enterprise operation system, and actively carry out innovation in operation and management modes, so as to make state-owned capital of the telecommunication industry better and bigger.