“In the upcoming 5G era, you will be connected with the whole world through your friend Avatar who will guide you through the virtual world. A world in which I become the center of everything, that’s the 5G era.”
“The vision of ‘Living in the Cloud’ seeks to create a world in which myriads of sensors and devices are connected with each other, all the services are provided to the customer through cloud, and in effect everything is possible within cloud.”
“The number of devices will rise rapidly in an accelerating pace. In 2010 the number was about 4 billion, but that will increase to 20 billion next year and 100 billion by 2020, only six years from now.”
Lee Sang-chul, LG Uplus vice chairman
Lee Sang-chul, LG Uplus vice chairman, characterized the coming 5G era as a “me-centric world.”(image:LG Uplus)
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Sang-chul, LG Uplus vice chairman, characterized the coming 5G era as a “me-centric world.” He said this on October 20 in a keynote speech titled “Innovation and Evolution toward 5G” delivered in “5G Global Summit,” a special event as part of the International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 or 2014 ITU conference, currently being held in Busan’s BEXCO Exhibition & Convention Center.
Mr. Lee also predicted the acceleration of communications device use and its ubiquity as devices are fast evolving into wearable devices such as glasses and wristwatches. The recent attention paid to the Internet of Things, smart car, smart city, robotics, and smart medical technologies is showing the trend toward all the technologies are converging and merging with each other to create new products and services.
In order for telecom service operators to respond to such a fast-changing world, he said, they must be able to raise their capabilities in matching device to device and device to network while being able to process all these connections.
Lee Sang-chul, LG Uplus vice chairman, characterized the coming 5G era as a “me-centric world.” He said this on October 20 in a keynote speech titled “Innovation and Evolution toward 5G” delivered in “5G Global Summit,” a special event as part of the International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 currently being held in Busan’s BEXCO Exhibition & Convention Center.
Mr. Lee also predicted the acceleration of communications device use and its ubiquity as devices are fast evolving into wearable devices such as glasses and wristwatches. The recent attention paid to the Internet of Things, smart car, smart city, robotics, and smart medical technologies is showing the trend toward all the technologies are converging and merging with each other to create new products and services.
In order for telecom service operators to respond to such a fast-changing world, he said, they must be able to raise their capabilities in matching device to device and device to network while being able to process all these connections.
By Sean Chung (schung10@koreabizwire.com)
