Industry Expert Talk: The Future of Mobile Communications: Challenges and Opportunities
5G was expected to be the key driving force behind the shift of digitalization of all industries and a more intelligent, connected world in addition to the provision of much improved mobile broadband (MBB) internet user experience. However, ten years later it seems both industry digitalization transformation and MBB business are quite behind the schedule and expectation. For example, it is worth mentioning the whole MBB revenue of telecom industry in China has been declining since 2023. There would be no future of mobile communications if those deadly challenges were always put aside and could not be met effectively.
Now 6G is on the way. Without exception, the newer generation of mobile communication has always been highly expected and 6G has been given the label of “enabler of connected intelligence”. It has been conceived with many attractive properties such as ultra-fast, extremely low latency, ubiquitous connectivity, network and edge sensing, along with inferencing capabilities and distributed learning. However, how to meet and tackle with the aforementioned unprecedented challenges still remained unclear.
This talk explores challenges and opportunities of mobile communications at the moment, how 6G technology components combined with device and network API exposure, transform wireless networks from passive data conduits into active enablers of high value businesses (e.g. AI services). Meanwhile, the cutting edge technologies in the areas of AI communication, Satellite Communication, advanced Waveform&Modulation, Coding and Sequences are also deeply addressed in the context.
