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standards to assist operators in their work to offer services of sectors, have established a strong basis to support the next five
the quality necessary to attract and retain customers in today’s years of ICT innovation.
competitive business environment.
The approach to 2020: Trusted information
We have achieved considerable progress in our efforts to infrastructure for 5G, IoT and smart cities
provide an enabling environment for ICT standardization to
support the convergence of technologies and industry sectors. The years approaching 2020 will be a pivotal period in the
development of the global ICT ecosystem. We will see 5G
The collaboration of telecommunications and over-the-top systems beginning to take shape, and investments in long-
players has ushered concepts rooted in data-centre networking lived urban infrastructure will incorporate investments in ICTs
into the telecoms industry, with new ITU standards in areas to build
such as software-defined networking easing the migration to IoT-enabled smart cities. ITU is supporting the ICT community
new ways of networking. in its work to create a post-2020 environment where we will
all have access to affordable, reliable communications; where
The wide array of industry sectors now in demand of ICT highly-reliable ICTs will be core to innovation in all industry
standards has drawn great value from ITU, with new standards sectors.
agreed in areas such as e-health, smart grid and intelligent
transport systems. Collaboration with e-health players, for Our Focus Group on IMT-2020 (5G) has undertaken a
example, has delivered ITU standards providing interoperability preliminary study into the wireline networking innovations
design guidelines for personal health systems, supporting the required to support the ambitious performance targets of
development of medical-grade e-health devices. 5G systems. The formation of the new ITU-T Study Group 20
has contributed to the consolidation of over ten years of ITU
Our recent achievements in increasing the capacity and activity in IoT standardization and the group’s work targeted
intelligence of ICT networks and devices, as well as our towards smart cities will provide valuable stimulus to this key
successes in building cooperation between various vertical IoT application area. ITU members are also engaged in a new
