BARCELONA:
Digital disruption will come to every industry in 2016, Ericsson
president and CEO Hans Vestberg said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC)
on Monday and made announcements regarding 5G, Internet of Things (IoT)
and cloud computing.
"Digital
disruption will come to every industry in 2016. Today's announcements
-- together with the hundreds of demonstrations we will show at MWC --
clearly demonstrate the strength of our portfolio and our capabilities
as an Information And Communications Technology (ICT) transformation
partner," Vestberg said in a statement.
"Our
portfolio is constantly evolving to keep pace with customer demands.
Now, with industries and even whole societies being disrupted by
mobility, broadband and cloud, we are accelerating our own
transformation," he added.
At
the event, Vestberg identified 5G, IoT and cloud as the hottest topics
in the ICT industry -- and
made major announcements in each area.
He
said that Ericsson, being a leading researcher for 5G
pre-standardization, has agreements with 20 major operators around the
world to work together on 5G -- more than any other vendor.
5G
radio test-bed field trials will start in 2016 and Ericsson is active
in aligning industry time plans to assure the commercial launch of 5G in
2020.
Vestberg
announced that Ericsson is collaborating with AT&T to bring the
operator's Digital Life
solution -- which uses IoT technology to
transform home security and automation -- to service providers outside
the US.
IoT,
for a laymen, is a futuristic system where you can control almost
everything -- from TV to refrigerator, from air-cooling to coffee
machine -- with your smartphone.
Ericsson
also announced plans to form a global business, technology and services
alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud
transformation for telecom service providers.
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