Virtual quotient in the 5G era: new opportunities and challenges coexist
Virtual operators refer to new telecom operators that rely
on leasing communication resources of traditional telecom operators to carry
out telecom services. At the end of 2013, the Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology has successively issued pilot qualifications for virtual
operator licenses to various private enterprises, aiming to prosper the mobile
communications market, stimulate the innovation vitality of the industry, and
better meet people's growing demand for information services. Up to now, the
user scale of China's virtual operators has exceeded 100 million.
The 5G era will bring differentiated intelligent scenes and
unlimited possibilities to the society. At the same time, the arrival of 5G
will also bring more new development opportunities for virtual operators,
because 5G is more to play a role in vertical industries, which coincides with
the business development of virtual commerce. Through 5G, virtual commerce It
can better empower vertical industries and help vertical industries to
transform and upgrade.
With the advent of the 5G era, the service environment of
communication vendors has undergone major changes. If you simply continue to
move around in the small communication circle, one is that the investment is
too large and it is difficult to recover, and the other is that the connection
between people has not been fully utilized in the 4G era. Power, but it has
reached the point where change is needed. In a word: the communication industry
needs to diverge, it needs to integrate various vertical industries, it needs
to connect things, it needs the industrial Internet, it needs to have me in
you, and you in me.
In January 2021, China Unicom held a virtual business
partner conference. The launch ceremony of the Internet of Things resale pilot
was held at the meeting, which kicked off the mobile Internet of Things resale
business. It is understood that China Unicom’s
Internet of Things resale plan follows the industry base price in terms of
tariffs, and adjusts the Internet of Things resale tariffs through small steps.
In terms of management, China Unicom will manage it by scenarios and
categories, and promote it in a gradual and agile manner. The first phase only
resells connections, focusing on the construction of system capabilities and
the trial operation of the full-process management capabilities; the second
phase considers the resale of non-connected application services. Gradually
build an IoT application ecological platform, and continue to innovate in the
vertical industry application fields such as industrial Internet, consumer
electronics, smart city, sharing economy, transportation, etc., to meet the
individualized and differentiated application needs of various industries.
In the future, the resale business of the Internet of Things
will become the two-wheel drive of resale business development together with
the basic resale business, for mobile resale companies to develop from a
connected enterprise to a provider of platforms, ecology, and solutions, and
for a complete transformation of the development model , Development momentum
provides strong support.
With the acceleration of 5G commercialization and the
further opening of the mobile resale market, business entities tend to be
diversified, and demand for massive applications has gradually emerged. Virtual
operators can take 5G, RCS, eSIM, etc. as their development direction, focus on
exploring enterprise-level cloud service solutions, 5G Internet of Things, 5G
messaging and other services, continue to increase their innovative exploration
of new services, and provide higher-level and more innovative services. Rich
application services.
In the future, the positioning of the virtual operator is to
gradually transform from the previous communication resource wholesale company
to the role of ecological services and platform construction.
Youyou Internet is the first batch of enterprises to obtain
the qualification of virtual operator pilot. So far, it has the qualifications
to resell the mobile communication services of China Telecom, China Unicom, and
China Mobile. It has also obtained the first batch of virtual operators issued
by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The official license of
the operator. Now it has tens of millions of code number resources, millions of
users, and its business covers the whole country. It won the "Best
Enterprise of Virtual Operator-Golden Tripod Award". As the leading
company among virtual operators, Uyou has been working hard in the traffic card
market for many years, and the products launched are also unique and well
recognized by the market, which can create new market opportunities.