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COVID-19 VS TELECOM INDUSTRY SAMENA TRENDS

Had we realized mass-scale 5G adoption, of a meeting room lies in being able to today offer a great promise of finding the
education would not have suffered to communicate at a personal real-life level, solution, soon.
the extent it has. 5G networks, offering which only 5G is able to achieve.
bandwidth, speed, and low-latency inherent With international travel and tourism
to their design, combined with advanced The plethora of information created and having suffered significantly, and airlines
HD video solutions could have allowed for propagated on COVID-19 speaks volumes having lost some anticipated windows
the delivery of remote instruction, including about the necessity of truthful and timely of financial opportunities for the current
immersive learning experiences through information, trust-building, cybersecurity, year, had we had 5G fully in place today,
virtual reality (VR). The effectiveness of and how relevant institutions and the reality-based technologies and immersive
engaging students for problem-solving Industry need to address crisis situations experiences would have offered the next-
and collaborating to seek new solutions to of the future. Had 5G networks been best substitute to cancelled trips and
problems is an area of instruction that is operating, a culture of innovation would sight-seeing, or more. Offering a fusion of
central to proper education, and 5G is able already have been catalyzed, with net and computational power, 5G enables
to make this happen. Telecom Operators having the ability to true immersive experiences, which require
almost instantly launch their own specific high data flows, very low delay, high
The plethora of information COVID-19 mobile apps, providing accurate, reliability, and low costs.
real-time information in collaboration
created and propagated on with hospitals and local community CASE IN POINT: Implications for Telecom
Operators
Covid-19 speaks volumes management, including on neighborhood As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, the
about the necessity traffic flows, nearest hospitals, smart traffic model of Telecom Operators has
changed greatly, and applications such as
and
pertinent
ambulances
nearby,
of truthful and timely information which would be helpful for online education and remote office activities
have promoted the rapid growth of data traffic.
information, trust-building, end-users. Telecom Operators and vendors, among other
cybersecurity, and how If 5G was fully in place, autonomous vehicles partners, collaborated to provide 5G network
coverage to 100+ key hospitals across China,
relevant institutions and or taxis may have made their way into the including Leishen Shan and Huoshen Shan.
Based on 5G all-weather “cloud supervisors”,
mainstream. This certainly would have
the Industry need to helped reduce the number of taxi drivers “5G + remote consultation” that flexibly
mobilizes medical resources, and “5G +
address crisis situations of who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 thermal imaging” in crowded areas, effective
the future. in many urban areas. 5G could have epidemic prevention and control systems were
put in place.
served as a much speedier mechanism for
connecting medical scientists, virologists,
If we had 5G in place well in advance, molecular geneticists, medical providers, In China, the backbone network grew by an
average of 30%, the metro grew by an average
many of the business activities, including pathologists, and remote specialists to of 33%, the metropolitan convergence BRAS
high-priority multi-stakeholder meetings find cure in even more record time than it grew by an average of 37%, and the IDC
would still have taken place as 5G is the has taken to develop and trial the current increased by an average of 25%. There are
farthest we have come to realize remote COVID-19 vaccination. Granted the current some opportunities for capacity expansion.
collaboration and remote decision-making search for cure is much speedier than Mainly online education is now being carried
through communication technologies. it has ever been and while, historically, out in the province. Remote offices are
While current audio and video conferencing it has taken years to develop vaccines, out of the metropolitan area network, and
and sharing technologies do allow remote computational capability we now have and traffic growth is mainly in the metropolitan
professionals to participate, the essence the data transmission speeds in existence area. Most of newly developed services
pass through CDN, and traffic is diverted to
OTT CDN network. In response to the above
changes, Operators needed to make targeted
network optimizations to ensure stable
and rapid transmission of information and
user experience, while comply with privacy
requirements and Cybersecurity.

This pandemic has compelled the promotion
of digitization and collaborative engagement
of related industries. For example, experts
from the Remote Ultrasound Medical Center of
the People’s Hospital of Zhejiang Province of
China, using China Telecom’s 5G technology,
remotely controlled the ultrasound robot in
the Huangfang Stadium Fangcai Hospital
through a handle, and performed ultrasound
examinations of patients 700 kilometers away.

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