Telefónica has launched a call for proposals for startups to develop solutions that take advantage of the possibilities offered by 5G and edge computing.
The initiative is part of the Wayra Activation Programme, which is promoted by Wayra, Telefónica's global open innovation hub, through which the company offers entrepreneurs free access to its technologies to test their solutions. The call is addressed to startups that have at least one 5G and/or edge computing-based service, product or use case. The deadline for registration through the Wayra Activation Programme website is February 14th.
Selected startups will be part of the Wayra 5G/Edge Lab, a ground-breaking laboratory in Spain in the development of use cases in these technologies that is set to be launched in the coming weeks. The applications developed will be included in a showroom aimed at companies and will have investment opportunities from Wayra.
In the laboratory they will have access to Telefónica's 5G/Edge computing infrastructure to test their products and use cases. In addition, they will be able to take advantage of the company's other technical resources and its technological and commercial consulting. As part of this, they will also benefit from the advantages offered by the company's open innovation ecosystem in collaboration with multiple partners. All this in the heart of one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, plus the possibility of jointly developing new solutions and eventually marketing them.
Miguel Arias, Global Director of Entrepreneurship at Telefónica said,"We want to open innovation again to collaboration with startups and bring them closer to the real world of business. Now that Telefónica has made a major deployment of both 5G and edge computing, it is time to give them access to these new technologies with an enormous transformational potential."