5G promises a world of unprecedented speed and differentiated quality of service with the potential to unleash a wide array of use cases, new services and business models. Network slicing is the cornerstone of the 5G architecture that supports this. By Oren Marmur, VP, Head of NFV, Amdocs
Yesterday’s announcement limiting Huawei’s presence in the UK’s full-fibre and 5G networks underlined just how crucial fibre is to 5G – and convergence. But it's not the whole story writes Annie Turner.
John Strand of Strand Consult argues that restricting the use of Huawei and ZTE’s equipment from networks would not harm Europe’s mobile operators, nor meaningfully reduce competition or delay rollout – but it could greatly improve security.
ISA is also what telecoms professionals need to do to win in IoT – whatever the sector, in this pivotal year.
It is just over a year since the world’s first commercial 5G service went live, so this feels like as good a time as any to take stock and assess progress over the past 12 months, says Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity, with CCS Insight.
Gartner warns that many infrastructure and operations (I&O) issues are not obvious now, but will “cascade” as the use of AI and edge computing proliferates.
Gartner says only 10% of large enterprises use a multi-source service integrator (MSI) today, but by 2022 half of them will. Alex Rigaldo of Orange Business Services explains to Annie Turner.
After Microsoft Azure’s and Google Cloud Platform’s recent outages, this second annual report on the global cloud market highlights some big differences between the big five.
Parag Shah, SVP & Customer Business Executive, explains in this exclusive sponsored article how operators can leverage existing assets alongside 5G.
Stéphane Richard, Orange's CEO and Chair, and Chair of the GSMA, outlined what he sees as the industry's biggest challenges in this opening keynote at MWC Americas 2019.
Rethink Research’s new report sheds light on what operators are doing in early 5G deployments and what they need to do to gain new sources of revenue.
Optimistic 5G forecasts assume that telcos’ spectrum needs are met, writes Saad Asif, a Contributing Analyst for MTN Consulting – and the upcoming WRC-19 is key to this.
That bias will be tackled by algorithms and anti-bias data auditors was one of 15 main predictions made by CCS Insight for 2020 and beyond.
Fuelled by impending 5G, pressure on operators to automate their networks is mounting. So where are European operators in their journeys and what obstacles do they still need to overcome, asks Kate O’Flaherty?
