 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Skado-Kutaya of JSA here at ITW 2019 in Atlanta. And joining me today, one of ITW's top sponsors we should mention, the CEO of HGC Global Communications, Mr. Andrew Kwok. Andrew, thank you for joining us. Jamie, fans, it's nice to see you again in a lovely land. So basically, I think Chicago is too boring already after all this year. I hope you don't mind, nice place. Having said that, so fans for the interview. Yeah, our pleasure, our pleasure and beautiful Atlanta. We get to try out all new restaurants, learn a new way around town and it's really exciting to be here. So as a thought leader in our industry, I'd like to ask you, how do you see telecom operators shaping the communications ecosystem? So Jamie is a big topic, so how much time do we have? One day? As long as you know. Okay, so yeah, actually for the big topic of how the operator will shake the future telecom ecosystem, so mainly I can see that it is driving from a three different angle, one the traditional mobile operator, the fixed line operator and also the ODD. So those are the known facts already. But having said that, I think the current situation is that that is another ingredient coming into the picture, which is the investment part of the telecom industry. I think the infrastructure, no matter in the mobile world, while we're talking about the 5G is coming, first you're talking about the spectrum, you're talking about the build out of the 5G, and other than that, you're talking about how does the mobile operator plug in the IoT application into the whole equation. So this will be the first thing that in front of them, to talk about how to shape their future. Going forward, all this kind of mobile operation, 5G and all that, they have to be supported by a basic local infrastructure or the international infrastructure, which is mainly a business and a service provided by the fixed line operator. So the fixed line operator, if I would, they'll be in the lowest layer in the whole ecosystem and moving up is the mobile operator. But having said that, on top of it, there's a whole bunch of IoT application, the ODD and all that will be riding on it to forest a effective ecosystem. What does 5G mean in the fourth industrial revolution and how is it impacting the individual as well as companies, as well as of course our network providers? Okay, so fans, Jamie, good question. So what I can see is that when the people are talking about the fourth industrial revolution, so everyone is talking about the 5G and everything, I think 5G is one of the enablers. Instead of, they will be the one who's driving all this. From behind, if we're talking about an effective 5G operation around the world, I think at this moment we need a little bit of time for the whole ecosystem to forest. Namely, if you're only talking about 5G, at this moment everyone is talking about the EMBB, which is the speed. By having said that, if you take a look at this phone set, so even if you put a very, very extremely high definition on the phone set, it may not make a difference to you and me because the screen is too small. By having said that, is it only the speed who will drive all this? It is not. It's eventually going down the road. How many IoT applications can be put on top of all this? Wow, it matches with the people's changing of the lifestyle into smart X and all this. So I think that matches. It's enabling IoT. Our smart homes these days have 40, 50 devices when you think about the thermostat and the laptop, the TV, the vacuum cleaner. So we have a lot of IP addresses, a lot of on-net devices and we're going to need a better way to deliver the same amount of high-performance services with low latency. That end-users come to demand, right? Now you can join the telecom market. And so with the launch of this 5G, what do you see as both threats and opportunities to the telecom marketplace? I think on the threat side is different from country to country or area to area. The spectrum is one of the major focus for the MNO at this moment. So when you talk about Hong Kong, say for example, in the past several years of time, the spectrum price in Hong Kong is comparatively pretty high. We are talking about around just last year, end of last year, the spectrum we're beating is talking about around 38 million to 58 million per mega, Hong Kong dollar, not US, but still it's pretty expensive. So I think the spectrum is one of the so-called hurdle in front of the MNO, how many spectrum I should get it. And after that, basically it's the build out of the 5G network. So as everyone recognized that nowadays there's a lot of discussion or even argument talking about different equipment to use. I don't want to quote any company name, but if you take a look, the one in Swedish, the one in China and all that. So I think this technological development, what I can see is that they should be globalized. It should be synchronized everything with one standard, hopefully. But having said that in the latest development of the trade war and all kinds of stuff, I think they have to redefine which network and follow which protocol in the 3GPP, that is the telecom consortium that define the network. So as such we have the spectrum, we have the technology, a kind of a little bit of hurdle at this moment. And after that I still think that my last point is how the IOT application and how fast it will come in the picture will govern the future of the 5G group. And HGC certainly poised to be a solution provider. Do you want to talk a little bit about that? Okay, fans, Jamie. So basically all we believe is that the basic infrastructure that I mentioned, our fiber, our reach, our upside, which is close to the edge, and other than that, a lot of good IDC data center, all that means a lot to the future development. So we have not stopped any of our investment and we are actually accelerating our investment as to cope with the future. So other than that, to provide a solution, no matter for the OTT or the MNO, so that they can run their own business, it's also one of our direction. Yeah, yeah. Well, wonderful. HGC, obviously a brand to pay attention to these days. Thank you, Andrew. Thanks a lot, Jamie. Oh, our pleasure. We love having you. Every year it's our ITW tradition. Just love it. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here at ITW. Happy networking.