Huawei Shares Vision of All-IP Mobile Broadband Evolution at its Asia Pacific CTO Forum 2009

(Business News & Technology News, 25 Nov 2009)

Huawei discussed its views on the future of mobile broadband at the third annual Huawei Asia Pacific CTO Forum in Hong Kong. More than 150 senior executives representing more than 60 telecom operators from around the region participated and engaged in collaborative discussion on how to address pressing industry challenges, with a focus on the evolution of mobile broadband.

Huawei led this discussion, providing new insights on its forecasts for the future development of mobile broadband, as well as working with operators to determine how they can best leverage the rapid growth of this sector. Huawei predicts that by 2013, the number of mobile broadband subscribers will exceed 2 billion, including 1.6 billion new subscribers, representing growth of more than 80 percent. However, according to Informa Telecoms & Media, global mobile data network traffic will grow by 1,587 percent between 2008 and 2013, while revenue in this space will grow by only 83 percent over the same period. To offset this imbalance, operators will need to adopt evolutionary technological solutions to decrease their cost per megabit and ensure a smooth transition to a next-generation network. Towards this end, Huawei identified increasing network efficiency and moving to a converged network as the key drivers and differentiators for operator success in mobile broadband.