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Time to read: 2 minutes Virtualization and disaggregation architectures such as Open RAN give mobile operators the freedom to choose best-of-breed products from multiple vendors. That’s a welcome break from the longstanding tradition of being locked into a single supplier. Or is it? A lot…

Time to read: 3 minutes The mobile telecom world is driven by data, not just the transactional data between a user and the internet but the data about the user, their subscription, their physical devices etc. How this data is managed and secured is a…

Time to read: 4 minutes The extreme focus on network stability led to the tremendous success of 8.2 billion mobile subscriptions in 2021. Stability made the core network a revenue generating machine. But what worked in the past does not always work today, as we…

Time to read: 3 minutes Telecom operators and their customers love freedom. So why don’t they have it? Nobody likes lock-ins, especially during times of economic turbulence and inflation. Consumers, for example, hate being forced into contracts where they have to buy a big bundle…

Time to read: 3 minutes In the race for 5G deployments we have spent a lot of time focused on speed and latency and rollout. Rightly so, as these have retail value in the market and demonstrate the clear differentiator between 4G and 5G. When…

Time to read: 4 minutes It’s here. After the hype, commercial and enterprise 5G adoption is finally becoming a reality. According to data published by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), the number of companies investing in private LTE or 5G mobile networks increased by…

Time to read: 3 minutes The first couple of things people think about with 5G are speed of access, or connecting all sorts of devices in different environments. We have seen commercials where planes can be landed from someone’s home living room (current UK 5G…

Time to read: 2 minutes Global economic turbulence and political tensions are impacting the basic economic reality of cost for almost every industry. The telecom industry is no exception and is not insulated from this scenario. The cost of goods and energy consumed cannot be…

Time to read: 2 minutes The telecoms industry regards itself as one of the most innovative, so why is it twice as polluting as aviation? If technology is the key to unlocking net zero, surely one of the most technologically advanced industries should be leading…

Time to read: 3 minutes In the world of communications drama, nothing quite comes close to the long-running, “will they or won’t they” soap opera of cellular and Wi-Fi. The relationship between these two pioneering forces in connectivity has been sometimes fractious, occasionally friendly, but…