A few days after the new limits on electromagnetic fields come into force to allow the development of telecommunications and new services, the sector is meeting to look to the future. '5G&Co Everything is connected' is the title of the two-day conference promoted by Cnit, the national inter-university consortium for telecommunications. "There are delays, they weigh, but they are not just Italian delays. They are global delays", said the undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition, Alessio Butti. Pure 5G networks are certainly needed" for the undersecretary and "an intermediate generation is "useful and perhaps indispensable" and to think about 5G advanced.
The objective is to make a technological leap and, for the president of the Cnit, Nicola Blefari Melazzi "we must first complete the creation of the 5G network in its complete version, the so-called stand alone, and we are at 10% in Italy". Then, we need to fill a void between the network and the users' needs", only in this way will 5G "explode, otherwise we will have a better but not radically different generation of mobile phones". There is no lack of potential. Digitalisation is a opportunities of around one thousand billion euros of added value for Europe, according to a study by the Vodafone group cited by the cco and managing director for Italy Aldo Bisio, however, underlined that "Europe is far behind in terms of coverage of the population compared to the United States, Korea, Japan and China" and indicated the urgency of a public policy for the sector after a "black" decade. According to the first white paper of the Restart research and development program, financed under the Pnrr with 116 million euros, the global telecommunications market in the decade 2012-2021 remained more or less stable while that of digital platforms grew rapidly. The Internet value chain, moreover, "continues to grow steadily by 15%. annual", underlined Blefari Malazzi.
A message of optimism came from the CEO of Engineering Group, Maximo Ibarra, convinced that "the system and technology are mature" to broaden the spectrum of innovative services and that artificial intelligence will be "a fundamental driver".
In telecommunications alone, according to Accenture estimates, AI "could transform more than 70% of hours worked", said Accenture's communications, media & technology lead for Italy, Central Europe and Greece, Massimiliano Monaco. An innovation proposed to the government by the CEO of Iliad Italia, Benedetto Levi, is to create as soon as possible "an interactive national electromagnetic register, based on a GIS platform, which allows for the best use of the new rules" on electromagnetic fields. This is a front on which Deputy Minister Vannia Gava calls the land registers "to take a step towards modernity, through evolution into an integrated and intelligent platform".