Telekom Malaysia - Huawei

Tao of Business
The challenges with LTE now for us in Spain and in many countries are
frequencies. All the countries are allocating frequencies in 2.6GHz band and 800MHz
band. Terminals and frequencies are the two key things we need to deploy LTE.
we need to continue doing exactly the same as what we
are doing today – providing customers what they are
requiring. With time this will change, and we will need to
change our approach as well.
I think the key thing is to provide Internet connection
to customers so they can use and access whatever they
want wherever they go. If they want to access the content
they have stored in the cloud, they can. If they want to
watch TV films sometimes when they are out from their
home or if they travel to other countries and want to watch
the sporting events in their home country/town, they can.
This is going to be the key direction for the coming years.
We need new tools for uploading… for content delivery
to improve. But these are only going to be tools. The main
challenge is to have ubiquitous Internet for everyone at
every moment.
WinWin: Speaking about the tools needed to help
make the Internet ubiquitous, can you update us on the
progress that Vodafone has made in fields like RCS or
CDN?
Bustillo: As I said, we are working to provide the
best Internet experience to our customers and these
technologies, like CDN, are for sure within our radar
for future deployment. We have been a quite innovative
company so far and we are going to continue being one
for sure.
Regarding RCS, the industry standard was announced
at the last Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and I
would like to mention that Vodafone Group has been very
active in the development of this technology, and Spanish
experts have been also especially active in its development.
WinWin: What are the top challenges facing
operators looking to deploy LTE commercially in the
future?
Bustillo: The challenges with LTE now for us in Spain
and in many countries are frequencies. All the countries
are allocating frequencies in the 2.6GHz and 800MHz
bands. Obtaining the frequencies is the key issue for LTE
now. Whereas we are obtaining the frequencies, we need
to have the participation of the ecosystem as both vendors
and operators are prepared to deploy LTE. Terminals and
frequencies are the two key things we need to deploy LTE.
WinWin: What are your expectations from Huawei
in the LTE space? When do you think is the right time
to deploy an LTE network?
Bustillo: The expectation is flexibility. As I said before,
we still don’t know exactly the moment we need to use the
frequency bands and capacity. So we need the flexibility
to give us response and support. Of course, we believe
Huawei has the best technology that we can find in the
market.
We will start deploying LTE after we get the
frequencies. We are starting to do trials. The evolution will
depend on the market for smartphones that is going to be
the drive for LTE capacity; deployment will also depend
on the Spanish economic situation. But, we will certainly
start at the end of 2011.
WinWin: Cloud computing is a very popular topic
in the industry. How would you describe the role that it
could play in telecommunications?
Bustillo: With regards to cloud, everyone, every
company, every telecom operator and big Internet players
want to play. There are many definitions of cloud. We
need to address many of them. One definition of cloud is
private cloud. We need to provide services. We still need to
transform the back office into a cloud in a way that we can
get better benefits.
Another definition of cloud includes services like
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DEC 2011