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August 6, 2024

The World Broadband Association (WBBA) Membership Exceeds 100

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On August 1st, WBBA achieved an important milestone with its membership exceeding 100, covering more than 30 countries across five continents. This marks a new stage of development for the association, with its global influence achieving a qualitative leap.

Currently, WBBA is committed to the following work:

  1. Promoting high-level international cooperation and exchanges, establishing a global summit system to significantly enhance global influence.;
  2. Strengthening the construction of high-standard association organizations, improving the governance framework to significantly enhance governance level;
  3. Undertaking high-quality technological innovation cooperation, building an ecosystem to significantly enhance the cohesion of the cloud and broadband industry.

The association actively participates in the ITU's Partner2Connect program and engages in multi-level, multi-field, and all-around cooperation with organizations such as GSMA, WTO, OECD, WEF, and WIC. Continuously expanding the industry ecosystem, WBBA has formed a "1+2+N" global summit system, including the annual WBBA event in Paris and the Broadband Development Congress held concurrently with the MWC in Barcelona and Shanghai. In the future, WBBA will also hold regional meetings in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to discuss the challenges, trends, and key initiatives for high-quality development of the global cloud and broadband industry with its member partners. WBBA will gather global consensus and expand its global influence.

WBBA adheres to the belief that technological innovation is the core competitiveness, and has been continuously pushing forward the research on the cloud and broadband industry as an important service for member units and a leading force for industrial development. The association has established 7 working groups so far, including:

WG1-Generational Roadmap & Demand Side Requirements and Timing: By better understanding the scale, nature and timing of the future demand for services and applications, the first WBBA working group is responsible for the Next Generation Broadband Roadmap.

WG2-Broadband advocacy: Developing a set of arguments for why it is important and beneficial to invest in developing broadband.

WG3-Environmental Sustainability: Embracing sustainability as a core element of corporate strategy offers great potential for the telecom industry, enabling companies to mitigate risks, improve operational efficiencies, enhance their reputation, access capital and drive innovation.

WG4-Network technology: Understanding the landscape of cloud network convergence, assessing and advising on how to achieve “cloud and network as one” and realise congestion-free new transport infrastructure with better network elastic scalability, enhanced intelligence, and true deterministic experience.

WG5- WBBA Broadband and Cloud Development Index: The purpose of the research is to support the development and growth of the broadband and cloud industries by ranking its performance across major countries. The benchmark combines coverage of broadband, which is the gateway to the internet and digital economy, and cloud computing, one of key enablers of digital applications services worldwide.

WG6- Customer Premises Network: In a rapidly evolving digital landscape marked by the rise of UHD video, Metaverse, online education, healthcare, and smart manufacturing, the demand for robust home and business broadband services has never been greater. To meet these demands, the Customer Premises Network (CPN) Working Group has been established.

WG7 - Artificial Intelligence: Experience the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it revolutionizes life and work, both locally and globally. Stay ahead of the curve and embrace the dynamic shifts in our economy and society with confidence. Discover how AI is shaping the future today.

In the future, WBBA will deepen international cooperation and continuously enhance its global influence, with the vision of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and helping to bridge the digital divide. It will provide guidance and advice to members on cloud and network industry policies, industries, investment, technology, and markets, and drive global cloud and network enterprises to achieve high-quality development. The association will continue to establish global partnerships and become an important bridge for international cloud and network industry cooperation.

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The world is facing fundamental challenges. Pressure on the planet is increasing, productivity is stalling and access to opportunity remains stubbornly unequal. Technology is central to the solution.

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With our customers we deliver solutions that respond to climate change through more efficient use and re-use of the world’s resources, restore productivity growth by bringing digital to the physical industries it has not yet reached and provide more inclusive access globally to work, healthcare and education.

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Our 35,000 people are hugely experienced, resourceful and innovative. They tackle complicated engineering problems – from coordinating works with councils, highways agencies, energy suppliers and landowners, to installing and maintaining the complex kit that provides fibre broadband services. They go the extra mile and take on any challenge to build a better, faster and more affordable network that helps our customers stay connected.

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