The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN Alliance) announced plans to create a new 'green' benchmark for mobile networks. The industry standard will be based initially on high-level sustainability indicators, with more detailed assessments to follow. It creates a new way to compare mobile networks, alongside service quality and user experience metrics.
The new initiative is part of the alliance's 'Green Future Networks' programme, set up in 2020 to help the mobile industry address the need to reduce carbon emissions while network traffic continues to grow. With the new benchmark, operators will have an incentive for working on sustainability, as well as a tool to verify and market their credentials to customers and public authorities.
The NGMN initiative plans to establish globally applicable KPIs and methodologies, defining data sources, data collection methods and a global evaluation methodology. Interested industry players are invited to join the project to help develop the new benchmark.
