Mobile World Congress is the world’s greatest mobile event where the industry gathers to experience new ideas and discuss future opportunities.
In our hall in Barcelona, customers and visitors had the opportunity to learn how we enable change and change-makers in the Networked Society, and how our latest technologies and services unlock new business opportunities.
This presentation gives you a taste from what we saw and heard during Mobile World Congress 2015, which was held in Barcelona, March 2-5.
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Slide owner: Anna Kristoffersson
Latest update: February 2015 Best before: February 2016
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Slide owner: Anna Kristoffersson
Latest update: February 2015 Best before: February 2016
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Slide owner: Anna Kristoffersson
Latest update: February 2015 Best before: February 2016
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Slide owner: Anna Kristoffersson
Latest update: February 2015 Best before: February 2016
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Slide owner: Anna Kristoffersson
Latest update: February 2015 Best before: February 2016
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Keynote 1: Industry Perspective: Mobile Operator Strategies
The mobile revolution continues to transform the way in which mobile operators organize their businesses. Industry forecasts agree that traditional revenue streams and established business models will no longer be able to support the investments required to meet future demand for mobile services.
4 CEOs from world’s largest operators shared their vision on how best to steer the industry towards a more sustainable future.
Highlights from the speakers:
- Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Chairman GSMA and CEO Telenor introduced the four focus areas: Personal data, Connected living, Digital Commerce and Networks of 2020.
- Daniel Hajj, CEO América Móvil, highlighted how ICT can impact economic growth and improve society. He also talked about three game-changers: M2M, evolution of devices and exploitation of Big Data. Going forward the challenges he sees for telecommunications are the huge investments required in networks, consumer influence, spectrum, regulation and achieving quality of service.
- Ahmad Julifar, CEO Etisalat talked about how connected living is a conscious strategy in UAE exemplified through the smart government initiative to become number one in the world in digital governmental services. In 2014, national identity cards will be on mobile devices and nationals will have access to more than 100 governmental services on their phones.
- Chua Sock Koong, CEO SingTel shared their view of digital services. She explained Singtel’s conscious Dual Transformation strategy to reengineer core in line with new market realities while building a new digital business and stressed that operators need to “try many different things, learn fast and fail cheap”.
Keynote 2: Mobile, Disrupted: Challenging the State of Play
The mobile landscape continues to evolve amidst new waves of disruption and a shifting regulatory environment, presenting operators with new sets of challenges to profitability as well as opportunities for growth. But not every operator views the changes in the mobile market in the same way.
This session brought together telecoms leaders who have thrived by doing things differently to share their ideas and visions for the future.
Highlights:
- Mats Granryd, CEO Tele2, shared their intention to become a Value Champion. He defines it as having the spirit of a challenger and focusing not only on price but also on quality (incorporating network performance and measured customer satisfaction).
Moving Millicom from telco to a digital lifestyle company is the aim of Hans-Holger Albrecht, CEO Millicom. Millicom operates on emerging markets and the strategy is to be ambitious, fast and to leapfrog developments. - Innovator or Disruptor - Sirgoo Lee, CEO of OTT communications provider KAKAO, tributed the success of the company to the fact that consumers are deeply involved in developing the platform.
- The CEO and co-founder of Facebook acquisition WhatsApp, Jan Koum, announced it will soon launch a voice service in addition to its widely used messaging application
- Jo Lunder, CEO VimpelCom talked about the challenge monetizing the data explosion, and has chosen a service enabler strategy for VimpelCom. Lunder states the ownership of consumers is shared with the 40+ partner OTTs.
Mobile World Live Keynote:
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, dedicated his keynote to the internet.org initiative, and briefly commented on the high business potential from the WhatsApp acquisition. He sees the initiative as a way to introduce (“on-ramp”) basic services for free to users that are not using Internet today, with the aim of more rapidly increase the total amount of internet users globally. As these new users get experienced with the Internet they will later convert to data-plans and thereby increase the total profitability for the industry. Three main efficiencies sought for:
Lower cost of infrastructure
Lower amounts of data used
More up-sell. He now wants 3-5 new operator partners to work with.
He also mentioned the new Innovation Lab with Ericsson.
Facebook keynote video: http://www.mobileworldlive.com/mwl-keynote-facebook
Notes:
Keynote 3: The Connected Lifestyle: Transforming Industries
The next few years will see people surrounded by an increasing array of connected devices. From streamlining the commute to work, reducing energy consumption or the cost of healthcare, an increasingly connected lifestyle will have a massive impact on end users and the societies they live in. However, key regulatory, technical and business enablers need to be established for things to really scale. It will require telcos and other industries to rethink the services they deliver and the ways in which they do so.
This keynote session sheds light on key developments enabling the connected lifestyle.
Highlights:
Jahangir Mohammed, Jasper Wireless CEO, declared “we are leading the revolution. 95% will bring in Internet of Things into their business”. Jasper Wireless has more than 2000 IoT deployments in more than 20 industries. Internet of Things is a service business. This transformation is happening in all industries. Telecom is the enabler in the industry transformation,
Deutsche Telekom CEO, Timotheus Höttges highlighted during the session that “Everything that can be digitized, will be digitized. Everything that can be connected will be connected.
Stephen T. Odell, EVP & President for Ford Europe, Middle East & Africa, highlighted the Technological revolution. The cars are the new smartphones. Odell thinks that connected experience should be the same everywhere. “By 2020 – 80% of cars will have connectivity”. He shared Ford’s Blueprint for mobility, parking, accident alerts, car2car2environment communication. This is all built on sensors and cameras. This change will call for partnerships to be able to handle the huge amount of data.
Kaoru Kato, CEO NTT DoCoMo, talked about Smart life a lifestyle enabled by technology, linking real life with mobile life. They focus on healthcare and fitness, M2M monitoring pets, etc.”
Keynote 4: Moving Money: Rethinking Transactions
From P2P money transfers, bill payments, tickets and purchases, the population of the planet is becoming accustomed to moving money and making digital transactions through their mobile. As this takes deeper root it has huge ramifications for consumer activity and therefore for established industries, opening up a wealth of opportunity as well as broadening competition.
Hear how captains of the financial and digital industries plan to make money moving in an increasingly digital marketplace.
Highlights:
- Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup, talked about rethinking transactions. According to research from Imperial College, mobile money will add 1 trillion USD into the banking system - money that is not visible today. This is a win-win for society: for consumer the benefits are instant, convenient and easy. The trend is global but where banking is not established the shift will happen faster. Mobile money is only in its beginning we will see bundles with other services including health and insurance.
Tadashi Onodera, Chairman of KDDI emphasized how E-Money is more used than credit cards in Japan. Every month 180 million transactions are made with E-Money. NFC is key to make this change happen. KDDI’s strategy to prevent becoming a “dumb pipe” is one access to all devices, to all content using any access network. In addition Onodera presented auID, which is a smart password.
Keynote 5: Up Close & Personal: The Power of Big Data
As their traditional revenue streams continue to be eroded, the convergence of ubiquitous connectivity, cloud computing and big data analytics is set to provide mobile operators with important new business opportunities.
CEOs from some of the leading companies in this space discussed how this vision can be realized and, just as importantly, how growing concerns over privacy, security and the use of personal data can best be addressed. A lineup of speakers followed and all spoke of the turning point the industry is at.
The overall tone of the session can be summarized with “Mobile applications will redefine the world!”
Highlights:
Jinwoo So, President & CEO of SK Planet Korea, shared insights of the development in Korea, a country in the forefront where m-commerce is worth 9.26 billion USD. “Big data is one hard buzz and we utilize it through Mobile.”, commented So.
Michel Combes, CEO Alcatel Lucent focused on the wealth of the digital lifestyle.
Notes:
Keynote 6: The Battle for the Multi-Screen Home
Smartphones, tablets and other connected devices are transforming the way in which media is developed, distributed and consumed, particularly in the home. An average home has 8 connected devices today and expectations are that all of them work everywhere.
Highlights:
Rich Riley, CEO of Shazam, shared their latest services and apps connecting users with content. According to Riley in the near future - the devices and apps will be proactive and create content and experiences based on information. Consumers will no longer have to act.
Another speaker was Robert Bakish, President and CEO of Viacom International Media Networks, who spoke about how Viacom has started to make apps and content also available for Kindle. Together with operators they offer youth targeted subscriptions branded MTV!.
Mobile World Live Keynote: An ecosystem conference
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Virginia Rometty delivered a keynote address and discussion from Mobile World Congress – which she suggested re-naming to “an eco-system conference.” Rometty says that mobile is so basic, that the more interesting shift is in the surrounding ecosystem. She named three areas to watch: - Data - the world’s next natural resource and claimed that “Data will be the basis of every competitive advantage”.- Cloud - where she urged leaders to push the edge of analytics to allow visibility and data management - “Cloud is what internet was in the 1990s”. - Engagement, where she promoted a new culture enriched by a network of people who expect value in return for information that they share on networks.
Keynote video: http://www.mobileworldlive.com/mwl-tv-keynote-ibm
Keynote 7: Innovation Unleashed
At this session a number of inspiring and creative players were lined up: Jon Matonis, Executive Director & Board Member Bitcoin, shared his vision where money is only an illusion and there is no need for central banks. Matonis sees Bitcoin as the disrupter of not only banks but also authorities.
John Hering, CEO Lookout, a security focused company gave insights of the company’s success – user experience.
Michelle Gallen Shhmooze CEO pointed out that failure is the key to learn and innovate.
Lance Howarth, CEO Raspberry Pie Foundation, shared the story behind the product-getting more people interested in computing and programming. The success is evident and the product is now used in schools as well as by developers.
Laetitia Gazal Anthoine, Connecthings CEO, gave the vision of an NFC connected world. Over 2.5 billion tags around the world enabling mobile services to major cities deliver content on transport, events, shopping and tourism.
The Networked Society is transforming entire industries. They are being reshaped and redefined by technological developments, society’s changing needs and a more collaborative culture. ICT tools are rapidly becoming everyday resources that are fundamental for businesses, organizations and people. The telecom business is transforming, and the scope depends on what role you want to play in the Networked Society:
Network Developer: Focus on providing connectivity services to consumers, as well as for wholesale and M2M business. Maximizing utilization of the network and spectrum assets is a key priority.
Service Enabler: Aim to add value to connectivity by distributing and reselling services and content, as well as providing an extended portfolio of business-enabling services to enterprises.
Service Creator: Focus on developing new consumer and business services in, for example, media, finance, smart home and other sectors. They have a strong focus on driving and collaborating in broad innovation to create new offerings and business models.
Whichever you choose, we can find solutions to support the key issues you face and help drive the business.
Have you decided the role you want to play in order to achieve success?
The Networked Society is transforming entire industries. They are being reshaped and redefined by technological developments, society’s changing needs and a more collaborative culture. ICT tools are rapidly becoming everyday resources that are fundamental for businesses, organizations and people. The telecom business is transforming, and the scope depends on what role you want to play in the Networked Society:
Network Developer: Focus on providing connectivity services to consumers, as well as for wholesale and M2M business. Maximizing utilization of the network and spectrum assets is a key priority.
Service Enabler: Aim to add value to connectivity by distributing and reselling services and content, as well as providing an extended portfolio of business-enabling services to enterprises.
Service Creator: Focus on developing new consumer and business services in, for example, media, finance, smart home and other sectors. They have a strong focus on driving and collaborating in broad innovation to create new offerings and business models.
Whichever you choose, we can find solutions to support the key issues you face and help drive the business.
Have you decided the role you want to play in order to achieve success?
The Networked Society is transforming entire industries. They are being reshaped and redefined by technological developments, society’s changing needs and a more collaborative culture. ICT tools are rapidly becoming everyday resources that are fundamental for businesses, organizations and people. The telecom business is transforming, and the scope depends on what role you want to play in the Networked Society:
Network Developer: Focus on providing connectivity services to consumers, as well as for wholesale and M2M business. Maximizing utilization of the network and spectrum assets is a key priority.
Service Enabler: Aim to add value to connectivity by distributing and reselling services and content, as well as providing an extended portfolio of business-enabling services to enterprises.
Service Creator: Focus on developing new consumer and business services in, for example, media, finance, smart home and other sectors. They have a strong focus on driving and collaborating in broad innovation to create new offerings and business models.
Whichever you choose, we can find solutions to support the key issues you face and help drive the business.
Have you decided the role you want to play in order to achieve success?
5G: What are the key components of 5G? – building the next generation cross industry network platform
HW Strategies: What are the HW Strategies for the future? – Choosing the right HW strategy to create a cost efficient and platform capable of fast addition of new functionality
Leverage Cloud: How to leverage Cloud in Business, IT and Networks? – Cloud solutions for all clouds, workloads and industries.
Media & TV monetization: Future strategies for Media and TV? – The Media industry transformation is underway, bringing opportunity. The internet era of Television is being created, driving significant change and disruption.
Co-opetition with OTT: How to compete, collaborate and partner within new eco-systems and OTT? – How to deploy the best strategies in relation to OTT players to avoid churn and create new revenue opportunities
Radio Strategies: What is the optimal Radio Strategy? – Having the best performing network on the road to 5G
Big Data & Analytics: How to leverage Big Data and analytics? – Big data analytics for improved efficiency, customer experience and business growth
Internet of Things: How to capitalize on IoT? – Building an Eco-system based on the right ingredients and partnerships.
Net Promoter Score: How to improve NPS? – The focus is shifting among operator from acquiring new customers to keeping the right customers.
Growth Priorities: How to grow – were to invest, in enterprise, consumer and / or wholesale? – Profitable growth through appropriate investments to develop core business and to address new customers and use cases
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Notes:
Mobile World Summit
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO Ericsson, February 25 - closed session
*******************************************************************************************************************************Main Program Features
1. Media Unplugged: The Opportunities of Mobile Media; February 24;
Speaker: Ove Anebygd
Description: “The convergence of media and telecom is being accelerated by broadband mobility and ever increasing array of connected devices. Ericsson proposes to highlight how the future of digital entertainment will place huge demands on the networks of the future, how the consumers will evolve in their expectation of accessibility and quality of experience and the strategies operators need to ensure both new revenues manage the network and new value chain in a cost efficient way.”
2. The Future of Voice; February 26;
Speaker: Arun Bhikshesvaran,VP Marketing & CMO, Ericsson
Panelists: Russell J Green, CTO & VP Technology Group; SAP Mobile Services; Dr J W Byun, CTO of SK Telecom; Peter Santos, CEO, Audience
Description: All speakers agreed that contextual voice is essential, and our Chief Marketing Officer gave the following example of how voice continues to add value as an everyday service that consumers want: “Say I’m flying somewhere and my plane is delayed. When the airline’s call centre sees that I am calling, they should be able to know contextually that I am having a problem, because my itinerary indicates that I should be in the air, but they can see my location and note that I am NOT in the air. I want the call centre to know this immediately and answer my call with, ‘hello Mister Bhikshesvaran, ....I see that you are still on the ground in Barcelona, do you want me to look for alternate flights?” Other interesting elements in the discussion were about identification and WebRTC versus Voice over LTE. An introductory speaker from Plantronics, Joe Burton, suggested that photos and names should replace numbers in an address book. Bhikshesvaran countered with: “Phone numbers are the single most unanimous, ubiquitous ID we have in the world. It is valid anywhere at anytime.” The panelists all praised the value of WebRTC as an enabler of communication in the internet age, and Bhikshesvaran pointed out that Voice over LTE was essential to assure scalability and interoperability for all forms of communication. Bhikshesvaran also stated that video is the next voice and finally he concluded by stressing the importance of interoperability.
3. Emerging Markets on the way to the next Billion; February 26;
Speaker: Ulf Ewaldsson
Panelists: Manoj Kohli the former CEO and Jt MD of Bharti Airtel’s International Operations and now head of Bharti’s strategic M&A and global business development; Chris Weasler, Chairman at Internet.org and Director Global Connectivity, Facebook.
We are building the Network for the Networked Society” Ewaldsson stated. He also highlighted our industry leadership, and partnerships, with a special focus on Bharti in India and Africa in this speech. He also covered our cooperation with Facebook around the internet.org initiative with examples from Indonesia). Ewaldsson mentioned the importance of social and corporate responsibility and talked about our unique emerging market innovations and our technology for good initiative. ”Being Ericsson we believe in creating a momentum for an Industry beyond smartphones for the Networked Society”, Ewaldsson commented. Spectrum was another topic that the speakers touched upon in their discussions. ”The journey starts at spectrum. The reach is limited if the spectrum is not right.”Kohli concluded. Ewaldsson concluded that spectrum will become more valuable than oil in the Networked Society.
4. Session: Optimizing User Experience with Intelligent Network Assets; February 26; 16.00 - 17.30, Auditorium 2
Title: Market disruption calls for real performing networks
Speaker: Johan Wibergh, SVP and Head of Networks, Ericsson
Description: “The growth in data traffic continues. Mobile data traffic grew by 70% in 2013 and mobile subscriptions ended up in 6,7 B in Q4, which is a growth of 6%. In parallel, the number of applications that are downloaded from the two major app stores skyrocketed by over 100%. In this disruptive market, every device, app and situation raises unique expectations. The challenge for operators is not just to handle more usage, but different needs. This calls for a new approach to network performance, and we call it App Coverage. The discussions encouraged a dialog around a changed approach towards network performance, addressing some critical performance aspects in the network, such as network evolution, service awareness and SW upgrades. The right question to ask is not if your customers have coverage but if they have coverage for the applications that they love and use.
Twitter:
Ericsson predict 10 times more mobile data traffic in 2019
Ericsson predict the data consumption per device will grow from today’s 0.6 GB to 2.2 GB per month in 2019
40 Billion app events are taking place every day and every application require different things from network performance
Network performance is the main driver for consumer loyalty
Adjacent industries that connect to the network will all have different requirements of the network performance
In the data paradigm, networks need to deliver a downlink throughput of at least 1 Mbps all the way to cell border
Considering todays average size of web pages, radio networks will require data throughput of 5 Mbps in 2020
Using latest software provides 50% higher speed to end users
Leaders have the latest software, other stay on older releases and fall behind
The new data paradigm calls for a new approach to network performance
We cannot ignore the fact that operators need to invest in performance to stay in the game
********************************************************************************************************************************Other sessions:
1. Mobile for Development: Creating 'What's Next' in Mobile for Development; February 24; 8:30 - 10:30
Speaker: Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson
Title: Creating What’s Next in Mobile for Development
Description: “The session explored the future of Mobile for Development; how it can help the industry deliver positive social and economic impact, as well as showcasing the efforts across youth employment, agriculture, energy and water access in emerging markets
2. (Understanding Licensed Shared Access)The successes and challenges associated with LSA; February 24; 10.30 - 12.00
Speaker: Hans Ovesen, VP Industry Relations
Description: “A discussion over the added opportunity for more capacity by using already allocated spectrum as a Shared resource for Mobile Broadband.”
Twitter message: “Spectrum Panel agreed; ASA is a fast way to get capacity and provide users with great service and more business to Operators”
3. APAC Ministerial Program; February 26 (Invitation only)
Speaker: Ulf Pehrsson (as Moderator)
Description: n/a
4. (LTE for emerging markets)Update on the LTE ecosystem for emerging markets in the Digital Dividend band; February 27; 10.00 - 12.00
Speaker: Mikael Halén, Director, Government & Industry Relations
Title: Network performance essential for user loyalty
Description: “Network coverage and device battery life stands out as the key concerns for users. I.e. network performance is essential for user loyalty”
5. Preparing for the Next Disaster, GSMA Panel, February 26 (Invitation only event)
Speaker: Rima Qureshi, Head of Ericsson Response
The workshop involved Ignite-style presentations from mobile operators and humanitarian organizations that the GSMA Disaster Response programme has engaged with, followed by breakout activities to discuss and determine what is needed next in preparing for disasters.
Qureshi described Ericsson Response's mission in the Philippines after typhoon Haiyan: "16 Ericsson Response volunteers, in partnership with the Emergency Telecommunication Cluster, have so far provided connectivity to more than 6,000 humanitarian workers and local government in the Philippines. This connectivity has allowed the humanitarian community to provide aid and relieve the suffering of 2.8 million people. Because we leverage our core competencies, we can move mountains and achieve the impossible with a handful of people. But collaboration is the keyword here. All the different parties involved need to collaborate in advance to better prepare and collaborate both during and after a disaster.”