Operators need to embrace software, transformational leadership strategies and financial skillsets to respond to the changing telecoms landscape, VEON's Chief Technology Officer has said.

Operators need help from governments and regulators to build a truly supportive climate to back the spending required for 5G networks, the CTO of Proximus has claimed.

A spectrum cap would enable a "truly competitive" market in the UK, the CTO of Three UK has claimed.

Orange will be focused on getting 5G right, not getting out first with 5G, its SVP for Orange Labs Networks has said.

Operators will fail to take advantage of 5G's promise if they treat it like an incremental progression of cellular technology, the Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom has claimed.

Healthcare is routinely listed among the major industries that will be transformed by 5G, but scepticism abides among the health sector about whether it will happen in practice.

Amid the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the mobile industry, Mobile Europe asked CTOs from Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Proximus, Three UK and VEON about the issues they consider are not being talked about enough.

Multiple flavours of Internet of Things connectivity will be the norm for the telco industry in the short term, LPWA World has heard, with opinion split whether fragmentation is inevitable.

Mobile Europe was left in an enjoyably difficult situation at the roundtable during its fourth CTO of the Year awards this week: how to set the telecoms industry to rights between 12 CTOs and with only 90 minutes to do so?

Increasing certainty around what 5G will look like has made 2017 a turning point for small cell investment, according to BT’s Director of Converged Networks, Research and Innovation.

Facebook's Telecom Infrastructure Project, the social network's typically ambitious attempt to reinvent how cellular networks operate, has been called anything from a welcome shot in the arm for telco innovation to turkeys voting for Christmas. But how does it feel to be an operator inside of it?

Operator Orange is not known for being averse to risks, with its glitzy annual Hello technology show more like something Google or Facebook would hold, but on virtualisation it has continued to take a cautious approach compared to the more ambitious and bullish projects of Vodafone and AT&T.

You don’t need to read between the lines to see that Nokia’s new machine learning-driven approach to customer service could lead to large-scale replacement of customer service agents – but is the technology up to the job?

Being a small telco comes with certain agility advantages, but it does mean the stakes can be higher than for larger rivals as there is less opportunity to scale.