• Top 10 Telecom Stories of 2025

    2025 has raced by, and it's time once again for my annual review of the top telecom stories of the year. You can also read my previous reviews of 2024, ...

  • Boosting the Football Fan Experience with 5G-Advanced

    Enabling good mobile network performance in stadiums is a tremendous test for any mobile network. When tens of thousands of people gather in a compact location, the demand for network ...

  • Using 5G-Advanced to Anchor Multichannel Football Marketing with Shanghai Shenhua and China Mobile

    There are still relatively few 5G-Advanced networks live globally, so it's interesting to see how operators are using it to boost their business. China Mobile is one of just six ...

  • Vodafone Will Upgrade Its Networks to Improve Resilience

    Vodafone plans to improve disaster resilience for more than 10,000 European mobile sites that are key for serving public safety and emergency services, as well as other key parts of ...

  • Safaricom Champions Financial Health Through M-PESA Ziidi Investment Platform

    Some of the most interesting and dynamic innovations in mobile happen in Africa, South-East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. This is at odds with the extent of coverage ...

  • A New Approach to Unlimited Data Plans

    It's become increasingly difficult to stand out in the mobile market, but the launch of a new concept from US-based Noble Mobile — which offers only one unlimited data plan ...

  • Satellite Stars for Orange at OpenTech 2025

    It was great to be back in Paris this week to attend Orange's innovation and technology event, OpenTech. This is the third year for the showcase, which brought together hundreds ...

  • China Unicom Seeks to Democratize AI with Its Own Cloud Service

    As telecom operators strive for fresh ways to profit on their networks, China Unicom's cloud AI services for households and individuals recently caught my eye as a novel approach. This ...

  • Operators Explore the Opportunity of Intelligent-Ready Buildings

    In a recent Insight Series report, my colleague Bola Rotibi highlighted a major new trend: intelligent-ready buildings. Intelligent-ready buildings are spaces that are more than digitally equipped, they're network-aware, data-rich, ...

  • TIM Turns to Energy to Fuel Revenue Growth

    I'm often asked how telecom operators can boost spending among consumers by offering services beyond connectivity. It's a dilemma: moving into new areas offers fresh revenue opportunities amid a seemingly ...