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.

Remote SIM provisioning has been seen as an easy and cost-effective means of unlocking the Internet of Things for telcos, but a new KPN report says the technology could also open the door to fresh security risks.

The race to be first with 5G networks could ultimately damage the technology's potential and applications, the Group CTO of Telefónica has claimed.

Sigfox’s role as a disruptor in the Internet of Things has led to it ruffling some telco feathers, but a senior executive has claimed operators are seeing the benefits of the technology, even as the landscape gets more competitive.

The seemingly endless attempt to connect everything has created lots of excitement for Internet of Things players, but concern among the more security conscious.

Orange cited the space age in its annual technology showcase, with CEO Stéphane Richard saying the operator's aim was to help create the "augmented planet".

TIM is betting on the likes of drone-based public safety networks and cloud robotics as it looks to nail down relevant use cases for 5G.