Four leading mobile operators (AT&T, China Mobile, NTT Docomo, Vodafone) plus industry leaders such as Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Keysight, MediaTek, Nokia, Qualcomm, Rohde & Schwarz, Datang and ZTE have signed a statement calling for a unified end-to-end 5G ecosystem at the Global 5G Test Summit held at Mobile World Congress. The summit, supported by industry organisations ITU, 3GPP, NGMN, GTI and GSMA, said testing and trials are vital to the success of 5G technologies, ecosystem development and cross-industry innovation.
To achieve this goal, all participants committed to facilitating and ensuring a unified, high-quality and competitive 3GPP 5G specification by June 2018 for release 15 and December 2019 for release 16, building a unified 5G E2E ecosystem (including chipset, terminal, network, test instrument and so on) for seamless global roaming and enlarging the global market scale for low cost. “We believe this statement will promote the finalisation of 3GPP release 15 specifications surely and timely and facilitate early implementation of standard-compliant 5G,” said NTT Docomo CTO and EVP Seizo Onoe at the event.
They participants also appealed to validate the smooth evolution capability of technologies towards 5G, including 3D-MIMO LTE, NB-IoT/eMTC, and C-V2X. In this regard, the joint statement encourages and welcomes partners from vertical industries to participate in the testing and trials for innovative 5G services and to jointly create new value for the global society.
