Big Data Assists in “Three Roles”.docVIP

Big Data Assists in “Three Roles” 　　In the past one or two years， when the Internet developed at a fast pace， man-made data accounted for 90% of the total volume of data in the world. The behemoth of data has brought business opportunities to traditional telecom operators as great as the influence upon them. It will bring forth the new market space and accelerate the transformation. 　　In the approaching “big data age”， the information has become the strategic assets of enterprises and the market competition requires more and more data to be kept for a long while. For telecom operators， every day there is a large amount of valuable data generated from Internet channels， business platforms， supporting systems and so on. The commercial smart applications based on those data will provide a bigger market space for traditional basic telecom services. 　　“In the information-oriented society， the big data is becoming one of the most attention-worthy things for enterprises，” said Wang Siwei， associate chief engineer of China Telecom Shanghai in the 6th Shanghai Communication Development Annual Conference. The topic of this conference was “communication and big data”. This means that the telecom operators in China has prepared for the advent of “big data age”. 　　China Telecom Shanghai believes that the development and use of big data is of great significance and will become a force of reforming. China Telecom put forward the goal of transformation three years ago. It wants to become the dominator of smart channels， the supplier of comprehensive platform and the participator of content supply. The big data undoubtedly will have significant influence over China Telecom’s transformation to the “new three roles”. 　　 Challenges and Chances 　　Though the big data has brought great business opportunities to enterprises， Chinese telecom operators， which are late in the research of related technologies， are behind the IT enterprises in the innovation. Wang Siwei said that the insu