The telecommunications industry is critical at a time. As global consumption of data is soaring, traditional telecommunications operators face a perfect storm of challenges: the growth of stagnant subscribers, costly infrastructure maintenance and insatiable bandwidth demand. This capacity capacity is not only a problem for carriers; It is an imminent crisis for consumers who count more and more on transparent connectivity in their daily life.
Telecommunications pressure
In 2024, AT&T projected $ 4.7 billion in site rental fees. Add Verizon and T-Mobile, and the annual cost of leases for wireless coverage in the United States is approaching an amazing $ 15 billion. As infrastructure costs are increasing, internet access margins should increase more slowly for telecommunications companies. Meanwhile, demand continues to explode, with global consumption of data on telecommunications networks which should increase by almost 2x by 2027.
Industry attempts to find new income flows, such as fixed wireless access, which is used to connect internet users at home via cellular connections, will exacerbate the problem by placing an additional constraint on the cell capacity. Consequently, consumers are faced with the prospect of a degraded service and an increase in costs.
Enter the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (TPO) – A solution that promises to treat the dilemma of capacity capacity. In a decentralized model, the infrastructure is held, deployed and maintained by several parties rather than a central authority as a large telecommunications operator. In exchange for the sharing of cost and the work of deploying new network capacities, infrastructure owners are rewarded with blockchain incentives.
By taking advantage of distributed resources and blockchain technology, carriers can see:
- Quick cover creation: Depin Networks can create coverage / capacity where it is necessary the most and deploy this cover faster than with the traditional model.
- Scalability without capex: Expansion is no longer limited by infrastructure projects with high capital intensity.
- OPEX cost reduction: By distributing deployment and maintenance work, operators reduce operational expenses and consumers benefit from savings.
- Improved performance: Decentralized networks can give operators the possibility of choosing the radios serving users for specific geographies and hours of the day.
- Increased crucial: By providing an unchanging and transparent book, the blockchain ensures the visibility of the quality of experience measurements in a distributed system.
Overcome resistance to change
For many telecommunications leaders, the adoption of decentralization represents a significant cultural change. But they would be wise to consider history as they turn to the future of their industry. For example, when the initial transition from analog networks to digital networks began in the 1990s, consumers and industry leaders hesitated to upgrade their systems. But once implemented, 2G cellular technology has improved capacity and efficiency, and also an improved voice quality, SMS messaging services and data that would lay the basics of subsequent generations of mobile services.
The concerns about quality of service, control and security no longer need to dissuade a transition to a decentralized network. Each of these questions can be addressed satisfactorily thanks to implementations based on standards and robust governance models to achieve the long -term advantages of the adoption of decentralized models, as well as to prepare innovation and future improvements . By collaborating with Depins, telecommunications can be positioned at the forefront of a new era in connectivity.
Decentralize traditional carriers: creation of coverage and unloading of data
One of the most promising entry points for backdrop is via the creation of coverage and the unloading of carriers. Decentralized telecommunications networks can create coverage where it did not exist before. Currently, carriers identify the regions where connectivity is necessary, and the commercial development teams engage with local property owners to rent and develop sites for extended coverage. It is a process with a high intensity of time and resources with considerable costs.
Depines, however, can deliver a new “point and shoot” model where carriers directly indicate to the decentralized manufacturer’s community where coverage is necessary. Operators can use tools such as the helium planner to mobilize communities to create coverage where they know that it will be used, benefiting manufacturers and mobile customers, and instantly improve the operator’s network.
Helium is an excellent example of a decentralized telecommunications network that is successfully used by traditional carriers. The network is already collaborating with several telecommunications operators, in the United States and Mexico, the latter via its partnership with Telefónica – a testimony of the growing acceptance of decentralized solutions by the main players in the industry.
By encouraging individuals and businesses to exploit hot spots, more than 400,000 American telecommunications transporters connects to the helium network daily to access the Internet via hotspots. With more than 500 data transfer teraoctes in helium, the network has proven that traditional telecommunications operators can adopt the capacity, safety and efficiency of decentralized networks.
Embrace a decentralized future
The decentralized expansion of the network will become even more critical while the 6G deploys the national scale in the years to come. As indicated in the recently published 6G vision statement of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), we will need a more robust and intentional collaboration in the industry to “make omnipresent connectivity” to overcome the costly improvements in cellular infrastructure . The industry needs profitable unloading solutions to effectively deploy this next generation of wireless technology.
While the telecommunications industry is struggling with unprecedented challenges, decentralized networks offer a path to follow. By taking advantage of blockchain technology, by adopting innovative partnerships and reinizing the very nature of connectivity, telecommunications leaders will be able to thrive in the coming decades.
