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The R&D team in Vodafone develops disruptive value opportunities for Vodafone. We identify future enablers and technology platforms with high value potential and the scope to scale, and we advance those with the greatest potential. By working with key innovation leaders, we build demonstrations and early proof points to experiment, learn, iterate, inspire, and create a market advantage.
We work with a range of strategic partners, including:
We work with speed, agility, and a minimum of bureaucracy. Our in-house lab allows us to carry out experiments, trials, and proofs of concept and value at low cost and with extremely short lead-in times. This is important at multiple stages of the R&D process, from assessing technologies in isolation, through integrating, testing, and enhancing them in a telecomms context, to engaging with the rest of business and ensuring commercial engagement and alignment.
As well as identifying and advancing technologies, we understand the importance of ecosystem building for those technologies to succeed and deliver value. As a member of our R&D team, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in or lead Vodafone’s engagement with relevant industry organisations, where as well as being active participants we often take leadership roles (or even founder roles in new organisations, where we see an important unmet need).
Examples include:
– 5GAA (5G Automobile Association) which is responsible for developing the technology, standards, and system architecture for advanced automotive requirements.
– NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks), an alliance of leading international network operators aiming to ensure that the functionality and performance of next generation mobile network infrastructure, service platforms and devices will meet the requirements of operators and end users.
– 5G ACIA (5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation) to accelerate and enhance support for industry automation globally.
6G
Today, 4G and 5G support many services that are essential for our modern lifestyles, but now that 5G is a commercially deployed technology attention is turning towards answering the question – what comes next? This question is already driving Universities and industry, backed by governments and international organisations, to begin the research into Beyond 5G systems, or 6G. We’re on it.
The R&D focus is on the new generation of low earth orbit satellites, aiming to provide connectivity to those people and/or IoT devices in locations with coverage gaps so they can stay seamlessly connected. We’re working with a company called AST (Avellan Space Technology) to launch a service called “Space Mobile”. This will allow all LTE handsets and IoT devices direct access to the Space Mobile satellite service in a way which is transparent to the customer.
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