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23. August 2024

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Green Future Networks: A Roadmap to Energy Efficient Mobile Networks

2. July 2024

Dusseldorf Germany, 02 July 2024. This latest NGMN publication outlines 16 different energy saving techniques and intelligent solutions that are currently used or under development in the industry. Supported by real-world data, the publication highlights the energy saving potential of each solution and classifies each by type and by the time needed to develop and deploy them. According to the publication, energy consumption can be reduced through process optimisations, engineering and operational improvements, and the deployment of recent technologies. This is the latest phase of NGMN’s Green Future Networks programme, building on the previous publications that addressed the short-term solutions that mobile network operators (MNOs) could deploy.

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NGMN’s new recommendations on better energy consumption measurement in virtualised networks

4. April 2024

Dusseldorf Germany, 04 April 2024. Today’s publication by the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN), titled 'Green Future Networks: Metering in Virtualised RAN Infrastructure,' offers key recommendations to the industry regarding the measurement of energy consumption in virtualised RAN networks. The publication was jointly developed by the NGMN membership, including Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), vendors and research institutes. "Addressing the challenge of managing and minimising energy consumption is paramount within our industry," remarked Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. "Through this publication, the NGMN Alliance delivers vital recommendations for industry standards, facilitating more precise and real-time estimations of energy consumed by virtualised or cloud-native network functions."

Why should mobile operators – and the wider ecosystem of vendors, integrators and researchers – join the NGMN Alliance?

14. March 2024

Find out from our CEO Anita Döhler who talked to TeleSemana.com at MWC Barcelona about NGMN’s primary messages and the significance of global collaboration to the progress of the industry.

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NGMN Board Members showcase Global Telecom Industry at Press & Industry Briefing at MWC

27. February 2024

Barcelona, Spain, 27 February 2024. The annual NGMN Press & Industry Briefing at Mobile World Congress 2024 took centre stage at the Deutsche Telekom booth showcasing a stellar lineup of senior industry experts representing different geo-regions of the globe. The Alliance underscored the significant advantages derived from its unwavering commitment to provide impactful guidance in the areas Route to Disaggregation/Operating Disaggregated Networks, Green Future Networks, and 6G. By fostering collaboration among Mobile Network Operators, Vendors, System Integrators, Research Institutes, and other players of the value chain, NGMN’s Work Programme is positioned to have a lasting impact on the trajectory of the mobile telecommunication industry, ensuring ongoing innovation and progress with value for end-users and ecosystem players. The Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom, Arash Ashouriha, alongside Anita Döhler, CEO of the NGMN Alliance, conducted a comprehensive review of last year's accomplishments and provided an overview of the strategy and agenda for 2024, including NGMN's global biennial Industry Conference & Exhibition which will take place in September 2024 in Munich.

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NGMN publishes ITU-R Framework for IMT-2030: Review and Future Direction

15. February 2024

Dusseldorf, Germany, 15 February 2024. Today, the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) issued the “ITU-R Framework for IMT-2030: Review and Future Direction”. In this essential publication NGMN welcomes the recent report by ITU-R on the 'Framework and overall objectives of the future development of IMT for 2030 and beyond.' This ITU-R report sets an important framework for future technology discussions towards 6G. “Our publication underlines the importance of investment confidence for operators in order to deliver tangible value to customers while ensuring the commercial sustainability of current and future networks,” said Luke Ibbetson, Member of the NGMN Alliance Board and Head of Group R&D at Vodafone. “The capabilities identified for IMT-2030 should be able to be deployed as and when required, without compromising existing core connectivity services, and reflect a customer need that generates new value.”

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NGMN enables MNOs to reduce their environmental impact and publishes new report

23. January 2024

Dusseldorf, Germany, 23 January 2024. Today the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) issued a new publication “Reducing Environmental Impact: Best Practices and Recommendations” providing guidance to the mobile telecommunication industry on how to manage and reduce its environmental footprint in relation to greenhouse gas emissions, materials usage, energy and water. “Over the last three decades the mobile industry has provided enormous economic and societal benefits to billions of users worldwide. We must however continue this success story in a way that is sustainable and that minimises the industry’s environmental footprint”, said Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “I am proud that the mobile industry has come together – in NGMN – to share best practice and enable the whole industry to address this vitally important issue“, he added.

NGMN issues Energy Saving Strategies and Best Practices for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs)

5. December 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, 05 December 2023. Today the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) issued the next publication concerning energy efficiency: “Effective Energy Saving Strategies and Best Practices for MNOs” providing the industry with further guidance on technical strategies to mitigate high energy costs. “For the last 18 months high energy costs have put a renewed focus on technical strategies to reduce and better manage energy consumption as well as to ensure network resilience and stability”, said Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “This publication – which builds on our recent network energy efficiency roadmap (Green Future Networks: Network Energy Efficiency Phase 2) – provides MNOs with best practice energy saving and energy management techniques”, he stated.

Press & Industry Briefing @MWC 2024

19. October 2023

NGMN Press & Industry Briefing 2024 27 February…

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NGMN provides key recommendations and a roadmap for Mobile Network Energy Savings

10. October 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, 10 October 2023. Today the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) delivered the next publication: ”Green Future Networks: Network Energy Efficiency Phase 2” providing the industry with key recommendations and a roadmap for reducing the energy consumption of mobile networks. “Reducing the energy consumption of mobile networks is an important contributor to our journey to become net-zero and recently it has become a focus of the industry due to increased energy costs,” said Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “Since 2020 NGMN has contributed guidance on Green Future Networks. Our continuous efforts at NGMN are an important step in enabling operators and suppliers to identify practical and immediate ways to reduce network energy consumption,” he added.

Why Telecom needs a Cloud Native Manifesto: Interview with Laurent Leboucher

28. September 2023

Following the publication of our Cloud Native Manifesto, Laurent…

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NGMN publishes 6G Position Statement setting the course for 6G networks

26. September 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, 26 September 2023. Today, the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) published the “6G Position Statement: An Operator View”. With this essential publication NGMN guides a course for the future of communication networks by taking a proactive stance and emphasising the needs for a new paradigm for graceful evolution and successful value creation and delivery. “Our publication provides a clear statement of intent from the Network Operator community, that the traditional way of introducing a new technology generation must evolve,” said Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Alliance Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “NGMN is committed to ensuring that 6G delivers tangible benefits to end-users, simplifying network operations and ensuring sustainability, while offering compelling new experiences”, he added.

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NGMN publishes Cloud Native Manifesto

13. September 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, 13 September 2023. Today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) published the “Cloud Native Manifesto: An Operator view”. This important publication provides key principles and requirements for Cloud Native Telecom from an operator’s point of view, and a clear view on the focus required by the industry in order to accelerate the adoption of cloud native solutions in mobile networks. Measuring progress towards environmental goals is a critical success factor for operators as they move forward on their journeys towards greater environmental sustainability and energy efficiency in their networks and operations. “NGMN’s vision is to provide impactful guidance to the industry with Green Future Networks being a core strategic priority”, said Anita Doehler, CEO, NGMN. “With the publication of KPIs and Target Values for assessing Green Networks, we are realising that vision by supporting and enabling operators and their wider ecosystem partners to measure and manage their progress towards their sustainability goals”, she added.

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NGMN Press And Industry Briefing @MWC 2023

28. February 2023

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NGMN Identifies Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Target Values for Assessing Green Networks

22. February 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, February 22nd, 2023. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) today published ‘Green Future Networks: KPIs and Target Values for Green Network Assessment’ addressing the key issue of how operators measure, report, track, and act on their environmental and energy footprints, while maintaining high service quality for end users. Measuring progress towards environmental goals is a critical success factor for operators as they move forward on their journeys towards greater environmental sustainability and energy efficiency in their networks and operations. “NGMN’s vision is to provide impactful guidance to the industry with Green Future Networks being a core strategic priority”, said Anita Doehler, CEO, NGMN. “With the publication of KPIs and Target Values for assessing Green Networks, we are realising that vision by supporting and enabling operators and their wider ecosystem partners to measure and manage their progress towards their sustainability goals”, she added.

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NGMN guides the industry with 6G Requirements and Design Considerations

14. February 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, February 14th, 2023. In its latest 6G publication, “6G Requirements and Design Considerations”, the NGMN Alliance (NGMN) has defined several important requirements for 6G. By providing this guidance to the industry, NGMN takes on a leading role in avoiding fragmentation of future 6G standards and achieving affordable deployments and services valued by end users. The publication offers guidance and input to Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) working towards realisation of the vision of communication systems for 2030 and beyond, currently being developed by ITU-R. It has been developed on the understanding that there will be an evolution towards 6G without distinction between any new 6G technology, an evolution of 5G or a combination of both. New approaches have been identified within this publication covering digital inclusion, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and flexible deployment. Potential new capabilities related to prospective use cases are discussed qualitatively as well as new paradigms to address traffic growth, capacity needs, minimise complexity and provide alternatives to densification.

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NGMN Identifies Best Practices for Telco Supply Chain Sustainability

17. January 2023

Frankfurt, Germany, January 17, 2023. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) today published ‘Green Future Networks: Telco Supply Chain Sustainability’ addressing the key issue of how operators can work with their supply chains to reduce carbon emissions. Reducing carbon emissions from the supply chain is of critical importance to operators’ roadmaps to net zero carbon. “Cutting carbon emissions to tackle climate change is an issue that challenges all industries. The mobile industry is meeting this challenge head-on”, said Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom and NGMN Board Chairman. “Our work at NGMN is an important step in enabling operators and their suppliers to identify practical ways in which they can work together to reduce carbon emissions. Deutsche Telekom targets net-zero emissions at the latest by 2040. With more than 95% emissions generated from our value chain, partnering with our suppliers is critical to meeting our net zero goals. To support the industry, we shared our best practice examples in this publication”, he added.

NGMN continues its successful path with Chairman Arash Ashouriha being re-elected for a second term

13. December 2022

Frankfurt, Germany, December 13, 2022. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) announces its Board Chairman and Board Members for the term 2022 – 2024, starting November 23, 2022. All Board Members were newly confirmed and Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology Innovation of Deutsche Telekom, was unanimously elected to extend his Chairmanship for another term of two years. Under his direction, between 2020 and 2022, NGMN successfully performed a significant re-positioning and transformation executing its new strategy to focus on “Mastering the Route to Disaggregation with a spotlight on the E2E Operating Model”, “Green Future Networks” and “6G”, whilst continuing to support 5G’s full potential.

NGMN Paves the Way for Disaggregated Networks’ Operating Models

18. October 2022

Frankfurt, Germany, October 18, 2022. Today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has launched its second publication on “ODiN – Operating Disaggregated Networks v2.0”, which provides a detailed breakdown on how disaggregation impacts an operator’s organisation and processes. The publication covers RAN, core and transport disaggregation and outlines how planning, deployment, service provision, optimisation and maintenance processes will be impacted. In addition, the publication highlights the impact on processes of cloudification and the need to move towards the use of greater network automation whilst embracing DevSecOps.

NGMN’s Industry Conference & Exhibition from Sep 7 – 9 in Paris with Top Speakers and Exhibitors

24. August 2022

NGMN Alliance will hold its highly recognized global Industry Conference & Exhibition (IC&E) taking place every two years, on September 7-9, 2022, at the Pavillon d'Armenonville in Paris. C-Level and other top management participants will share their perspectives on today’s and tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges and the future of mobile telecommunications.

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1. March 2022

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NGMN IDENTIFIES 6G USE CASE

22. February 2022

The identification of 6G use cases is key to predicting major trends in future usage scenarios and will help to steer the needs and requirements for future generational change. Therefore, operators, technology suppliers and academic advisors in NGMN joined forces and contributed their views on which 6G use cases they predict will emerge in the future decade. The result is published in NGMN’s “6G Use Cases and Analysis” White Paper released today.

NGMN CALLS FOR THE INDUSTRY TO SUPPORT UPLINK PERFORMANCE

16. February 2022

Verticals’ use cases need sufficient uplink throughput or cell capacity and low enough latency, when 5G Time-Division Duplex (TDD) bands are used to successfully realize their industrial use cases. The uplink performance is key to fully unlock the value of 5G.

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NGMN Calls for Metering Solutions to Reach Net-Zero Emission Targets

25. January 2022

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN), today publishes its fourth Green Future Networks White Paper: “Metering for Sustainable Networks”

NGMN Defines Industry Standard for a “Global Green Networks Benchmark”

18. January 2022

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN Alliance) today announces the establishment of methodologies and KPIs for a Global Green Networks Benchmark.

NGMN Alliance Continues to Grow with New Partners Joining the Alliance

15. December 2021

Bharti Airtel, Comba Telecom, Google, IBM and Telia have joined the NGMN Alliance Partnership in 2021.

NGMN Identifies Key Energy Saving Solutions for Mobile Networks

9. November 2021

In its latest publication “Green Future Networks: Network Energy Efficiency”, the NGMN Alliance analyses existing and future energy saving features and solutions.

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ODiN webinar “Success on the Road to Disaggregation”

15. October 2021

Our Operating Disaggregated Networks (ODiN) webinar “Success on the Road to Disaggregation” took place on Thursday, October 14th, 2021. NGMN operator members informed about and actively discussed the objectives, timeline, the first deliverable, and next milestones of one of the key initiatives of our NGMN Work Programme: Operating Disaggregated Networks (ODiN)

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NGMN Green Future Networks Project Update at 5G World

6. October 2021

Ana Maria Galindo Serrano, Orange and Saima Ansari, Deutsche Telekom provide an update on the status of the NGMN GFN project at 5G World

Disaggregated Networks and Green Future Networks at 5G World

6. October 2021

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NGMN is Paving the Way for Effective End-to-End Operation of Disaggregated Networks

5. October 2021

The NGMN Alliance White Paper: “ODiN – Operating Disaggregated Networks” explores the appealing opportunities and the expected challenges arising from the disaggregation of mobile networks.

NGMN Green Future Networks Project Demands Network Equipment Circularity and Increased Efforts in Global Sustainability Standardization

20. July 2021

NGMN Green Future Networks project publishes first two White Papers

Managing the Route to Disaggregation

8. July 2021

NGMN's strategic focus on the Route to Disaggregation, Operating Disaggregated Networks, network automation and cloud native

NGMN Press And Industry Briefing

3. July 2021

Together with Telecom TV, we are excited to invite you to the NGMN Press and Industry Briefing taking place virtually on June 24, 2021, from 3pm - 4pm CEST.

Operating Disaggregated Networks – Panel Discussion

28. June 2021

Please join us on Wednesday June 30th at 3pm CEST to hear about one of the most exciting industry topics this year and how it is addressed by NGMN.

We have a new brand!

24. June 2021

In line with our new strategy, we launched our new brand! It is fresh and energetic, standing for the duopoly of our brand idea unity and practicability. Our dual colour scheme symbolizes human touch (red) and technology (blue). We unite our human touch with technology!

NGMN Press And Industry Briefing

14. June 2021

Together with Telecom TV, we are excited to invite you to the NGMN Press and Industry Briefing taking place virtually on June 24, 2021, from 3pm - 4pm CEST.

The Linux Foundation and NGMN Collaborate on End-to-End 5G and Beyond

10. May 2021

The Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance is set to align the mobile communication sector with its entire supply chain - from component manufacturers to service providers - to address sustainability challenges faced by the ICT sector.

NGMN Urges ICT Companies to Tackle Climate Change
ICT Companies should align investments with a 1.5°C trajectory in line with ITU L.1470

26. April 2021

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