Ying expressed his views at the fourth annual Huawei Asia Pacific CTO Forum, hosted in Hong Kong themed 'Mobile Internet: Today and Tomorrow'.
Huawei provides next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world. The company's annual event saw the participation of about 100 C-level executives representing more than 50 telecom operators from around the Asia Pacific region.
These executives discussed ways to address pressing industry challenges and methods to leverage the huge business opportunities created by the booming mobile broadband service market.
Huawei provided new insights on its forecasts for the future development of mobile broadband. The company also discussed working with operators to determine how they can best leverage the rapid growth of this sector.
Suggesting increased collaboration across the industry, Huawei said operators should invest in next generation technologies such as LTE to improve spectrum efficiency, expand spectrum resources, and provide the right infrastructure that enables more intensive coverage in hotspot areas.
Huawei notes ABI Research that estimates mobile end-users to generate more than 3.7 billion gigabytes of voice and data traffic by the end of this year. The research firm also expects the global annual mobile network traffic to increase to 20.4 billion gigabytes by 2015.
Speaking about the convenience brought by the smartphones, Jake Saunders, vice president for Forecasting at ABI Research, said although the devices present a world of opportunities, mobile operators need to make sure their networks do not grind to a halt under the traffic load.
Saunders said due to growing smartphone adoption in Asia, by 2012, the 2.6 billion gigabytes of mobile network traffic generated within the Asia Pacific will be more than the total combined mobile network traffic of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.
"Without a robust cloud computing infrastructure and accompanying network support, smartphones and tablets lose many of their capabilities and simply become expensive toys for adults," said Ying. "The mobile broadband industry is facing a total transformation. Services will be increasingly in the cloud, everyone needs the pipe to deliver these services to consumers, and consumers will require constant mobility."