According to ICT Ministry Public Relation center, Mohammad Khansari, the head of ICT Research Center, describing the Iranian outlook for utilization of 5G mobile network as the first middle-eastern country to domesticize this technology, counted this as a major transformation in communication networks which no longer are the evolution of 4G mobile networks, by saying: “The major issue of the 5G mobile network is going to be the changes and developments related to the ‘internet of things’ in such a manner that in future, all things and ‘objects’ will be connected to each other via internet; and these types of needs require new telecommunication infrastructures, since traditional telecommunication is no longer able to support these developments.”
He continued: “We are going to need new communication infrastructures and access to technologies such as ‘Big Data’, ‘Terahertz’, and ‘Cloud Computing’ as substructures for future generation of mobile communication.”
Dr. Khansari reported of a 5G mobile network innovation center to help plan the roadmap of this technology with the objective of registering inventions and patents regarding this technology, and included: “Planning is underway for producing and presenting this technology and its smart and proper utilization, since we have to begin now if we want to generate add value and create ethical values based on our Iranian Islamic culture.”
He emphasized on the demands of the universities, stating that: “Some of our programs for the future include invention and patent registration in the area of 5G mobile technologies, obtaining copyright, and clarifying the research environment in this field.”
The Head of ICT Research Center went on to say: “Through establishment of 5G innovation center and utilization of Knowledge-oriented companies in this sector, the possibility for creating products in this area will increase noticeably. In this direction, productive scientific research interaction and exchange with knowledge-oriented companies and joint-effort for knowledge creation is already on the agenda.
He further underscored that: “Instead of simply waiting for 5G technology to arrive in our country and then try to domesticize it, we intend to implement this stage concurrently with the rest of the world by devising the roadmap of this technology; on this basis we have international participation on the agenda.”
He referred to the communication ‘future study’ programs in the area of 5G mobile, adding that: “In regard to identification and analysis of technologies related to 5G mobile, we have worked on establishing connections and links with international bodies and agencies and also world-renown persons in various centers of the globe, and through establishment of the innovation center, we shall somehow connect the collection of valuable and practical studies of this sector to international markets.”
Emphasizing that we have already started our international interactions and we have a defined program for research and development cooperation with certain companies, Khansari added that: “Preliminary agreements in this area are already taking shape for capacity-building in our country, flexible and based on the research market; since the objective of this research is not to just produce articles but rather our outlook is to register inventions in this sector.”
Stating that negotiations with international regulatory and standard-setting agencies of this sector is also on the agenda, he concluded that: “Current forecasts for standardizing 5G mobile point to the year 2016, and estimates show that this technology will become accessible to the public by 2020.”