Building the New 5G Messaging Ecosystem and Empowering
the Digital New Economy
At MWC Shanghai, ZTE and the GSMA hosted the 5G Messaging
Forum: Building the New 5G Messaging Ecosystem and Empowering the Digital New
Economy. The forum attracted industry leaders from the GSMA, CCSA (China
Communications Standards Association), AFCA (Asia Financial Cooperation
Association), China UnionPay, Zhejiang Meteorological Service Centre, China
Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Japan’s KDDI and other leading operators
around the world, as well as leading 5G Messaging vendors such as ZTE, Guodu
Interconnection, Shanghai Dahantricom Corporation and Whale Cloud Technology.
More than 300 executives and experts from governments, operators and
enterprises around the world attended, both online and offline, to share their
experience in 5G Messaging and explore their application prospects.
In April last year, the three major operators in China jointly released a white
paper, aiming to make the 5G Messaging service a universal 5G information and
communication service with multi-terminal support, wide coverage, and
multi-industry empowerment. In the same year, the GSMA released its
specification which indicated that 5G Messaging should be included in the
mandatory functions of 5G terminals. At present, the related industry standards
have been formulated in China.
Wang Xiang, Senior Vice President (SVP) of ZTE, said: “5G Messaging has the
potential to have a bright future. To help drive the digital economy, ZTE hopes
to provide full support for operators in building 5G Messaging networks and
developing services, leveraging its 5G Messaging technologies and commercial
experience. ZTE will also work with upstream and downstream partners in the
industry chain, including operators, terminal manufacturers, service providers,
and enterprise users, to build a 5G Messaging application ecosystem.”
Today, through the joint efforts of the three major Chinese
operators and industry chain partners, the 5G Messaging industry ecosystem has
taken shape. In terms of its commercial application, the three major operators,
together with ZTE and other network equipment partners, have actively promoted
the construction of 5G Messaging platforms, and the networks have all met the
large-scale commercial application conditions. In terms of terminal
application, more than 60 terminals from mainstream mobile phone manufacturers
have been released to support 5G Messaging to date. In terms of application
ecosystem construction, 5G Messaging fully demonstrates the innovative
application scenarios that can be integrated with thousands of industries. ZTE
supports the three major operators in carrying out industrial research, holding
developer competitions and commercial trials, and has incubated over 300
applications in nine major industries such as government and finance.
“Learning from cases in Japan, South Korea, and the United States, the three
operators will seek to actively explore ecological cooperation and develop
together. They will strive to concentrate resources and give full play to the
network value specified in Metcalfe’s Law, laying the foundation for better
interconnection and unified access for CSPs in future,” said Zhang Yunyong,
CPPCC member and Product Centre General Manager at China Unicom.
At present, the trend is towards the digital economy. “5G Messaging empowers
thousands of industries and will connect the last mile for services to reach
users of the digital economy,” said Wang Quan, Vice President of ZTE, in a
keynote speech. “ZTE is committed to becoming a driver of the digital economy
and building the ‘widest and fastest’ last-mile message channel for customers.
The ZTE AnyMessaging 5G Messaging platform solution supports AnyNetwork (any
network access), AnyService (any industrial application access), AnyWhere (any
cloud environment deployment) and AnyScale (any capacity deployment),” he
explained. “ZTE will continue to build a technology-leading and commercial
leading 5G Messaging platform for operators. All ZTE 5G mobile phone series
launched this year will support 5G Messaging, and the ZTE 5G Messaging platform
leads in trials and is now commercial-ready. We will make all efforts to
support operators in promoting full coverage of terminals. To accelerate
industrial upgrades, we have launched Openlab 2.0, and released the first
certification system in the industry, providing CSPs with suggestions on 5G
Messaging technology, operation and training. The first four CSPs have obtained
the certification. We will also cooperate with China Telecommunication
Technology Labs (CTTL) in the field of 5G Messaging certification,” he
continued.
Furthermore, as the 5G-era upgrade to traditional short message services, 5G
Messaging has been widely recognised by global operators. Wang Quan confirmed
that “5G Messaging should develop alongside the global scope to build a global
5G Messaging ecosystem.” At the forum, ZTE announced the global 5G Messaging
cooperation plan, and launched the ‘0 CAPEX Trial’ initiative, which will
provide global operators with 0 CAPEX 5G Messaging trials based on public
clouds. ZTE will invite global industry chain partners to build a global 5G
Messaging ecosystem and promote the benefits of global 5G Messaging services.
In future, as the first 5G application in large-scale commercial use serving
public and industry users, 5G Messaging will bring the benefits of 5G
technologies and digital services to billions of users around the world. 5G
Messaging demonstrates the concept of “Science for Good”, enabling all users to
enjoy the convenience of intelligent services, bringing new models to the
digital transformation of industries, injecting momentum into the development
of the digital economy, and empowering it with safe and universal-benefit
features.
Source: ZTE media announcement