This panel gathered the executives from Sprint, China Mobile, Bosch, Mobike & GE, to discuss how to develop cross-industry cooperation efficiently & jointly explore the innovative applications enabled by 5G technologies.
 
Mr. Guenther Ottendorfer, COO, Sprint
  - We have long-standingfruitfully relationshipparticularly with China Mobilealso other operators.
  - I think GTI has achieved to foster the development of TD-LTE in a very meaningful way.
  - We are very pleased to learn from other GTI members when facing new challenges，having a network of people to talk about similar challenges is very important to get technologies fast deployed.
ž  - HPUE is another good example that we work with China Mobileit was very successful.
 
Mr. Zhengmao Li, Executive Vice President, China Mobile
  - Looking back 7 years ago, TDD is a minority compared to FDD. After the establishment of GTI, we found many operators around the world started to get interested in TDD technology.
ž  - Major initial force was actually from Asian countries including Japan, ChinaIndia,these could be good base for TDD because of huge population of 3 billion. Then we see European operators joining usespecially after Softbank acquired Sprint.

Mr. Joe Xia, CTOCo-founder, Mobike
  - Mobike have two trials with China Mobile, one in Chengduthe other one in Hangzhou but they are all within small areas.
  - Mobike proactively work with US local operatorsnow are using 3G network where cost of modulepower consumption are high.
  - Mobike is now using 3-in-1 module with 2G/NB-IoT/eMTC to be flexible switching between different technologiessaving cost on serving different countries.
ž  - Mobike still have to work with operatorspartners for challenges of NB-IoT on power consumptionlatency.

Mr. Steffen Zacharias, General Manager of Connected DevicesSolutions North America, Bosch 
  - Every business unites have different attitudeneedalso pick up alternative technologies.
  - 5G will offer something others may not haveit’s okay to have it in 45 years.
  - When developing productspicking technologies, it’s not top-down but comes down to costecosystem around the use cases.

Ms. Jennine Sullivan, Senior Associate of New Business Creation, GE Ventures
  - The real barrier for industrial IoT is costcomplexity.
ž  - We are not sitting around waiting for 5G to come before we develop the next new thingswill focus on what our customers needhow to build that until 5G come.
ž  - We are partnering with partners in industries to make sure that we are involved in the developmentunderstand the capabilities to bring them along in this evolution.
  - We are not picking one technology to fit all solutions.