Virgin Media O2 Partners with Accenture to Enhance Private 5G Solutions for UK Businesses, Tapping into Estimated Half a Billion Pound UK Market
08 5월 2024 - 11:15PM
Business Wire
Virgin Media O2 and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have today announced a
new collaboration to seize opportunities in the UK’s growing mobile
private network market estimated to reach £528M by 2030*.
Virgin Media O2’s 5G private network capabilities for UK
businesses will be augmented by Accenture’s expertise in helping
enterprises realise the potential of 5G with a broad set of
applications for multiple industry segments – including computer
vision artificial intelligence for product quality control
monitoring of equipment to meet factory floor compliance
requirements and queue management systems to improve customer
experiences.
The solutions are built on Accenture’s Edge Orchestration
Platform and will incorporate edge computing, data and AI, and
embedded cybersecurity focusing initially on the construction,
transportation and logistics, manufacturing, utilities, warehousing
and sports venue sectors. Liberty Global, the joint owner of Virgin
Media O2 alongside Telefónica, is also exploring opportunities for
these solutions in other geographic markets outside of the UK. The
collaboration will scale up in the coming months as joint customer
implementations begin to be deployed.
Mobile private networks can also underpin use cases across other
industries. In the summer of 2022, for example, Virgin Media O2
Business helped activate the UK’s first 5G-connected hospital with
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to support
mission-critical hospital activity. Access to a private mobile
network improved clinician workflow, efficient patient record
management, monitoring of smart medicine storage and seamless
integration of diverse connected devices.
Jo Bertram, Managing Director of Business and Wholesale at
Virgin Media O2, said: “Building on Virgin Media O2’s established
expertise in deploying mobile private networks, this new
partnership with Accenture leverages their industry-specific
knowledge and proven digital platform and solutions to help broaden
our offering to businesses. From facilitating safe communication on
construction sites to powering critical devices in hospitals,
businesses across a range of sectors will have access to a one-stop
shop of innovative, adaptive and secure mobile private network
solutions.”
Andy Tay, Global Lead at Accenture Cloud First, said:
“Enterprises need to reinvent their networks to become agile and
competitive, and it starts with access to reliable and secure
mobile connectivity. This enables companies to build a strong
digital core that uses the power of cloud, data, artificial
intelligence and other technologies alongside new ways of working –
ultimately helping them to optimise operations, drive growth, and
reach new levels of performance.”
About Virgin Media O2
Virgin Media O2 launched on 1 June 2021, combining the UK’s
largest and most reliable mobile network with a fully gigabit
broadband network where customers benefit from average speeds 5x
faster than the national average. Through Virgin Media O2 Business,
the company plays a leading role supporting entrepreneurs,
businesses, enterprises and the public sector with their digital
transformation through a range of connectivity, security, cloud and
tailor-made services. Virgin Media O2 is the corporate brand of the
50:50 joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica SA, and
one of the UK’s largest businesses.
The company has more than 46 million UK connections across its
award-winning broadband, mobile, TV and home phone services. Its
fixed network covers more than half of the country (17m homes
serviceable) alongside a mobile network that covers 99% of the
nation’s population. The company is on track to bring 5G to all
populated areas by end 2030, and offers more than 50% population 5G
coverage today.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that
helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other
organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations,
accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating
tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and
innovation-led company with approximately 742,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of
change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping
drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine
our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI
with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global
delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible
outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and
assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations,
Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture
of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us
to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting
relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create
for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and
communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Notes to editors
*STL Partners forecasts that the UK specific market is projected
to reach approximately £528M by 2030. This estimation is based on a
global private networks market forecast, which anticipates the
total addressable market to reach $21 billion by 2030.
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