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.