――The joint development and global development of 5G core networks (5GC) with Rakuten Mobile, and capital business alliance with the aim of joint development and global development with NTT with NTT, the NEC network business is now large. It is starting to move. In April 2018, NEC has been renamed the "Telecom Career Business Unit (BU)" to "Network Service BU" to promote the structural reform of the telecom career business. First of all, can you talk about where the network service BU is aiming for? Kawamura: The role of "communication" is now changing. As in the past, it has become an era where not only connecting humans and humans, but also things and things. Especially in 5G, I think that connecting things and things will be the main. Under such circumstances, we believe that the mission of our network service BU is to efficiently connect cyber space and real space and to return value to humans by freely manipulating the network. I am. The business area is roughly divided into two. One is the conventional telecom career business, the other is the Enterprise / Public business, and we are trying to expand the value of our network service BU to companies and local governments other than careers. ――Is the direction of the business that realizes the network that connects the goods and things, and the story of this partnership with Rakuten and NTT? Kawamura That's right. Society 5.The world where the various types of things and things that 0 are aiming for are different from the conventional world that connects only 4G people. I think it will be an impossible world to do everything with NEC1 companies. In the Beyond 5G world, this trend will accelerate further. Therefore, it is very important that NEC leads to the value of NEC by opening and partnering and leading this flow. This partnering with Rakuten and NTT is exactly the movement for that. Opening cannot be stopped -Please tell us about the specific contents of the initiatives with the two companies. Kawamura NTT has been discussing how the two companies can assemble for a few years, but that has been concrete in this tie -up in the last six months. The purpose is to create a strong asset together and put it in the global market. It does not create an NTT specification asset as before. The target market is just global. We will create an international competitive asset together and provide it to domestic and overseas operators. On the other hand, co -creation with Rakuten has a slightly different structure. NEC provides our value, such as 5GC and base stations, and Rakuten has built a full virtualization cloud native mobile network platform, Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), as its own 5G basin. On top of that, Rakuten develops RCP to overseas operators. ――NTT and Rakuten's common background is the movement of the openness in the telecom industry. How long do you see that opening will progress in the future? According to a Kawamura survey company, about 20 % of operators believe that "openings must be promoted", and about 40 % of operators believe that opening is important. In other words, 60 % of operators want to go in the direction of opening. Currently, the schedule on the vendor side is determined to provide various services. In Japan, operators are stronger than vendors, but overseas is especially led by vendors. However, as services become so diversified, the ability to provide services when you want to start is the important strength of the operator. For that reason, I think that the operator has a strong desire to "open open". At first, the IT world was not easily open. However, this is now being opened. In the network world, the waves of openings have just come, but I don't think this flow can be stopped.
