Every Mother's Day, friends around me always complain, plausibly, about mothers' "disrespectful speech and physical integrity": I gave her the latest mobile phone, while complaining about my spending money, and at the same time, I happily indulged in all kinds of things. New application.
In the process of teaching the older generation to use mobile phones to access the Internet, the two generations have reached the most closely connected state of emotion: you once taught me to learn Pinyin, and now I teach you to learn to play group games online.
Recently, a video titled "Inclusive Connection, Holding up the Light of Life" jointly produced by the United Nations Broadband Commission and Huawei allowed me to see the story of mobile broadband and a mother from another perspective, starting from the birth of life.
45 minutes, a mother’s life and death speed
Being able to allocate basic medical resources to a mother with severe hemorrhage in the shortest possible time often means the difference between life and death. In Nigeria, an African country with a broadband penetration rate of only 31.48% (2019 Daily Mail data), it is a seemingly impossible task.
The film shows us another possibility of the story:
The hospital that delivers the baby accesses the network through a mobile base station, logs in to the LifeBank digital health platform, and connects the local hospital with the blood bank and donation center in real time. The rider sets off immediately after getting the blood bag and uses mobile broadband to locate the shortest path to the hospital during the journey. At 45 It arrived at the destination within minutes and successfully saved the mother's life.
In addition to racing against death, the safety of blood products during transportation is also very important. LifeBank uses mobile networks to implement end-to-end management from collection, positioning, tracking to safe delivery, thereby tracking the safety of medical blood in real time and preventing patients from contracting diseases due to unclean blood bags.
It can be found that ubiquitous mobile network services have not only meant economic and industrial business opportunities, but are also closely related to everyone's food, clothing, housing, transportation and even life safety, and are the lifeline of protecting society.
According to data from the World Health Organization, more than 800 expectant mothers die every day due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Achieving universal interconnection and network coverage and allowing more groups like “African mothers” to connect with the Internet is a challenge for various countries and the communications industry.
For example, in Nigeria, rural areas experience power outages for more than eight hours a day. More than 8,000 villages across the country have no wireless signals at all. To make calls, villagers have to climb to the top of a mountain or walk to a small town dozens of miles away. In the end, MTN, the largest local operator, used Huawei's RuralStar 2.0 base station equipment specially designed for remote areas. It has low power consumption, comes with six solar panels, and does not rely on diesel generators or mains electricity to complete wireless communication coverage.
最近恰逢2021年世界电信日，世界电信和信息社会日大会也将本年度的主题定为：“在充满挑战的时代，加速数字化转型”。
在此前发布的政府工作报告及十四五规划中都将加快数字社会建设步伐，作为明确的国家战略。显然，推动更多群体适应数字化时代，是值得全社会所共同关注的话题。其中，移动网络所带来的普惠联接，能否为全世界提供通往数字社会的钥匙，自然成为焦点。
36亿人，一个时代的待解之题
正如国际电信日大会主题所说，这是一个“充满挑战的时代”。
挑战之一，疫情防控，需要更广泛的连接。如果无法让所有人连接到互联网，就无法获得有效的监测、预警并提供保健服务，从而很难释放数字科技的全部潜能来抗击疫情。
挑战之二，疫后复苏，凸显了加快数字化转型的重要性。以中国为例，去年以“新基建”体系为主的新一代数字技术，强调增强各行业的数字化、智能化水平，5G为代表的移动网络也就成为数据传输、实时计算、设备永远在线的联接底座，成为支撑工业互联网、社会数字化的重要基石，成为影响国家经济和社会复苏的关键要素。
挑战之三，转型进程，需要消弭数字鸿沟。社会联接底座的进化，也意味着不同群体在信息时代所面临的机遇差别很大，由此造成的信息落差、知识分隔和贫富分化，会带来新的不平等。
据ITU（国际电联）估计，全球仍有36亿人处于完全离线状态，其中发展中国家占据其中绝大多数。一个包容性的数字社会，应该让每个人无论在何处都受益于数字技术的力量。
理解了上述现实挑战，或许能够回答，移动网络究竟会给社会带来哪些价值？归根结底，是联接门槛的拆除。
允许用户以无线的方式广泛接入通信系统，摆脱了传统电缆的束缚。可以实现偏远地区的全场景覆盖，无需挖沟埋缆；弹性特质可以满足不同等级用户的体验需求，可以向5G演化，提供类光纤的大带宽高速率互联网服务……
这些特殊优势，直接降低了欠发达地区的联网门槛，也使得移动宽带成为人类历史上发展速度最快的技术，普惠联接也将建立了一个宽带人人可得的世界。
十年，普惠联接的更多答案
At present, China has built the world's largest mobile communications network.
China's ICT industry has also explored more thoroughly than the West on how to unleash the social value of inclusive connectivity, especially in the 5G revolution that has begun.
On the one hand, inclusive connectivity must ensure that people have equal access to communication infrastructure and have the basic conditions for digitalization.
In the past few years, China has completed extensive coverage of high-speed mobile networks. The 4G network has achieved full coverage in all administrative villages. In May 2020, China Mobile and Huawei built the world's highest 5G base station. Across the world, whether in Africa, Nigeria, or the “white areas” of developed countries, inclusive connectivity is allowing more “unprivileged people” to easily access the Internet.
On the other hand, maximizing the value of connections also requires meticulous demand mining and service innovation to promote the integration of mobile networks and social welfare, so that everyone can enjoy digital dividends.
For example, relying on inclusive connectivity to promote the sustainable development of the global environment. Huawei's Tech4ALL digital inclusion action initiative hopes to achieve sustainable development through digital technology. In Latin America, Huawei has cooperated with the rainforest protection public welfare organization Rainforest Connection (RFCx) to transform a large number of old Huawei mobile phones into solar-powered rainforest monitoring equipment. Once any abnormal noise from illegal logging is detected, an alarm will be issued as soon as possible, effectively preventing illegal logging. These monitoring devices are scattered throughout the rainforest and need to maintain 24-hour uninterrupted calls in extreme environments. The huge amount of audio data and real-time instructions are all transmitted through the mobile network.
In addition, 5G, a high-quality, low-latency, wide-connection mobile network, has also brought significant application benefits to society by supporting stable connections for more terminals.
During the fight against the epidemic in Wuhan in 2020, a large number of 5G medical supplies unmanned transport vehicles, 5G anti-virus robots, 5G infrared scanning robots, etc. were used to replace manual work such as disinfection spraying, distribution and transportation, and body temperature detection, minimizing the risk of personnel infection. , which alleviates the overloaded workload of front-line medical staff and improves the efficiency of medical resource transportation.
As Paul Kagame, co-chairman of the Broadband Commission and President of Rwanda, said, in the next decade, universal broadband connectivity will accelerate the world’s recovery from the epidemic and make up for the “debt” in sustainable development, social equity, and digital divide. .
It is obvious that mobile services evolving towards 5G are being given more social responsibilities and will also unlock new value points. For everyone connected, this is a great time.
