To help us understand how trends may evolve over the next decade, we encourage stakeholders to provide detailed, quantitative evidence wherever possible.
You are not required to respond to all sub questions, if they are not relevant to your response.
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1. What type of stakeholder do you represent: *
2. Name of business or organisation
3. Contact email of respondent
4. Mobile networks have become increasingly software defined and new market players such as tech companies and cloud providers have entered the market to support this shift.
Please provide detailed evidence as to how these technological and structural changes at the mobile infrastructure level could impact, over the next decade:
a. Investment in networks
b. Innovation
c. Infrastructure level competition
d. Security and resilience of networks
e. Collaboration between companies in adjacent sector
5. The mobile retail market has become increasingly diverse as connectivity delivered through eSIMs and MVNOs grows. Please provide detailed evidence as to how developments in the mobile retail market over the next decade will impact
a. Affordability of services
b. Investment in network
c. Retail market competition
d. Security and resilience of networks
e. Collaboration between companies in adjacent sectors
6. 5G private networks could potentially play a more significant role in meeting the connectivity needs of industry and the public sector. Please provide views on:
a. The future key growth areas and use cases for 5G private networks, including within critical national infrastructure
b. The current barriers to the uptake of 5G private networks in the UK
c. Actions that the government could take to support the deployment of 5G private networks
7. Please provide detailed evidence regarding the role that the wider wireless infrastructure market, such as satellite connectivity and neutral hosts, can play in improving coverage and quality of connectivity across the UK, including the impact on:
a. Affordability of services
b. Investment in the market
c. Competition across the market
d. Security and resilience of networks
e. Collaboration and innovation
8. Technological and structural evolution of the sector can support new revenue opportunities in the consumer, business and public sector markets.
- Provide a description of the new revenue opportunities available over the next decade
- Provide an evidenced estimate on the value of these new opportunities over the next decade
- Provide evidence on the sectors’ ability to capitalise on these new revenue opportunities and any barriers to deployment and uptake
9. How can the UK’s approach to spectrum policy and regulation be improved to better enable innovation and investment?
Please provide evidence outlining any barriers that currently hinder progress and suggestions for unlocking new opportunities.
10. Please provide views on whether the government’s 6G priorities are appropriate and whether they align with the needs of UK consumers and the UK telecoms sector.
11. How can the government take further steps to ensure 6G develops in line with our priorities? Please provide detailed evidence to support your answer.