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  • Appreciating Bad Debt Recovery

    Telecom operators face many challenges. Among the clearest are falling average spending by customers, shifting subscribers away from older infrastructure, rising energy costs, the lack of supplier diversity and hypercompetitive ...

  • European Operators’ Dubious Attempt to Make Big Tech Pay

    Last month, the telecom industry issued another plea for large technology companies to contribute to the cost of deploying the networks that underpin their services. A joint statement from two ...

  • Huawei Proposes 5.5G As Major Development Goal for Operators

    Huawei's Win-Win Innovation Week in July was an event intended to provide development solutions and strategies for operators and to demonstrate the company's thought leadership in several areas: emerging technologies ...

  • Sustainability Means More Intelligent Mobile Networks

    As a general estimation, telecom networks currently consume 1.5 times more power than global data centres; over the next decade network traffic is expected to grow tenfold with the explosion ...

  • Reality Check: Exclusive Insight into VR Opportunities

    One of my favourite pieces of research I carry out for FDM CCS Insight is the User Survey: Virtual Reality. It's a fascinating window into the behaviour of people who've ...

  • The Big Tech Balancing Act

    US government policy toward licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) isn't a subject that the wider tech industry follows closely. Arguably it should. Recent changes in policy point to a big ...

  • Smartwatches Keep Ticking Along

    The global market for wearables has enjoyed a buoyant few years, with the boost in interest triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic sparking a solid period of growth. Smartwatches have continued ...

  • Event Preview: Huawei Innovation Week

    Following the GSMA's decision to postpone MWC Shanghai because of the city's evolving pandemic situation, Chinese network solutions provider Huawei has plugged this gap in the events calendar with its ...

  • Price Rises No Silver Bullet for Operators

    Last week, FDM CCS Insight published Market Landscape and Forecast: Telecom Operators, UK, 2022-2026 — our half-yearly update on the UK telecom market. The report is comprised of two main ...

  • Economic Uncertainty Dampens Short-Term VR and AR Outlook

    With the expected launch of several new augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, some before the end of 2022, alongside a year of record sales for virtual reality (VR) headsets, the ...