MWC 2024: Wireless Spectrum Should Be For Everyone

By Fernando Murias, Chairman and CEO, Digital Global Systems

We had an incredible experience at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. The DGS booth offered guests an insider’s view into the power of our real-time platform for assessing and optimizing RF environments. These capabilities are necessary for enabling next-generation wireless capabilities for a variety of applications, including enterprise voice, video and data connectivity; smart warehousing; smart cities; remote healthcare; border security and critical asset protection—to name a few. Our booth also showcased how our existing technologies provide a path forward to meet key shared spectrum system capabilities required under new Biden-Harris national spectrum policies announced in 4Q23, which point to spectrum sharing as a key component of future spectrum re-allocation.

We entered the event with incredible industry support, including our recent industry study from ABI Research, which looks at the need for dynamic spectrum sharing, and our Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award.

At MWC, we met with Allyson Klein of The TechArena, for a discussion about dynamic spectrum allocation and the future of digital services. We were pleased to share DGS’ point-of-view on the future of U.S. spectrum policy and the role our technology will play. In short, DGS is a leader in bringing forward a new model for future spectrum allocations that will maximize use of this limited resource to enable more for U.S. businesses, consumers and the economy at large.

Further, we were deep in the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) conversation at this year’s conference. Of note: A.I. in telecom is driven to enable new services—you can’t do this with old KPI data; you need to understand current RF environments and signal characteristics to determine if disparate signals can co-exist and to predict signal patterns. This requires new data sets and increased spectrum observability generated by the DGS platform and it’s use of Machine Learning (ML) and A.I. in it’s solutions. Their state of the art Dynamic Spectrum Sharing technology analyzes signals in six different dimensions generating unmatched increased RF observability.

At the show, we saw artificial intelligence being integrated into everything from 5G modems to XR hubs that disaggregate compute across multiple devices to maximize computing capabilities for new technology, including AR (augmented reality) glasses. These are all exciting examples of ways to use A.I. to enhance user experiences. But, in the telecom space, the real challenge is how to apply it while also maximizing use of limited wireless spectrum. It’s a challenge DGS is taking on, as it is the quintessential telecommunications opportunity. No matter how much bandwidth and speed you have locally between devices, a slow wireless connection to the outside world is the ultimate bottleneck. At DGS, we’re not adopting generative A.I. to create content, summarize meetings or find a hidden piece of data in a contract. Instead, DGS uses A.I. to mathematically enable the streaming of more robust AR videos; conduct immersive, life-saving healthcare opportunities; and enable supply chains, IoT, and communications to operate efficiently, thereby enabling our economy to thrive. The applications are endless. I don’t know if there’s anything cooler than that.

The DGS team also met with a large mix of hyperscalers, RAN providers, integrators, and critical asset protection companies who see massive value for leveraging our technology to improve their products and better serve their customers. With a broad range of services and applications, there is tremendous potential to help create more value through real-time RF environmental sensing in many different forms, as well as maximize the use of the limited resource of wireless spectrum. We are just at the tip of the iceberg. Expect much more as we head into the Spring of 2024!