Professor John Davies, Chief Researcher, Applied Research, BT, talked to Annie Turner about the role for telecoms companies in the IoT ecosystem we call smart cities and the opportunities beyond connectivity.

Operators’ data is often siloed, inconsistent, incompatible and incomplete. What can they do to ensure it’s of a high enough quality to enable analytics, AI and automation? By Kate O’Flaherty.

Ahead of his participation in the Smart IoT Connect event, Dimitrios Spiliopoulos, IoT Sales Enablement, O2 (Telefónica UK), shares his insights on how telcos and cities can better work together.

Will operators ever give up control and invite the wider world to join them in driving new digital service innovations that justify all that investment in their shiny new networks, via the promotion of standards-based APIs? By Sue Tabbitt.

Smart city is no longer a topic about the future. It is on governmental and municipal agendas, as well as private initiatives and various large-scale discussions across different industries, writes Bengt Nordström*, CEO at consultancy Northstream.

John Strand of Strand Consult outlines 13 questions he would like to ask China’s government.

5G’s success is tied to the speed, reliability and capacity of the other networks it will complement and augment, including 4G, but most especially fibre. Almost half of the respondents who work for operators said sufficient fibre is the top critical factor for 5G’s success.

The complementary technologies of network functions virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networks (SDN) have made slower progress than was hoped. 

To make a good return on investment, operators need to pick the right use cases. Senior figures from gaming, broadcasting, transport and smart cities explain what they need.

Stefano Gastaut, CEO, Vodafone IoT, talks to Annie Turner about the key role of telecom infrastructure in smart cities, and how well the two parties understand each other.

Mobile operators target consumers and enterprises with 5G, but return on investment and backhaul costs are big concerns.

This was the message from Martin Brynskov, Chairman, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), who stressed smart cities are a huge market for telcos. By Sarah Wray.

After a year’s investigation, John Strand of Strand Consult explains how Europe’s net neutrality law is doing far more harm than good to operators and consumers alike, and is built on many wrong-headed assumptions.

Security is central to the Internet of Things success and not a peripheral issue, an Executive Member of the IoT Council has claimed.