Addresing ETTelecom’s India Mobile Conclave 2019, Vodafone<\/a> Idea CTO Vishant Vora<\/a> said, “We at VIL are making sure all our investments are future proof. Our intent is to deploy massive MIMO<\/a> at big scale and make extensive use of HetNet.”
While talking about the challenges to building next-gen networks, Vora explained that the future networks will have to connect billions of devices at a fraction of a cost. Telcos will have to build networks that are real-time and do not face downtime.
The networks will have to be elastic and agile such that they could be scaled up and down depending on the user demand, Vora added.
He further talked about the limitless possibilities that the telecom industry<\/a> has to create new revenue streams and business models while touching upon the fact that telcos need cross industry partnerships.
“Not everything can be done by telcos on their own, they need smarter business alliances to explore new models for monetization,” said Vora.
Elaborating on the ‘cloudification’ of networks – a phrase often used while discussing evolution of telecom networks – Vora said that it (cloudification) is one of the fundamental aspects in building networks and is going to happen across all parts of network.
Vora added that while telcos build networks for the future which will cater to huge volume of traffic; they must ensure security which is going to be even more critical for next-gen networks.
The executive had previously told ET that India should put off 5G spectrum auction beyond 2020 as there aren't specific 5G use cases available, and 4G is more than adequate for most customer and Internet of Things services in the near term.
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