In the next five years, the proportion of digital content paid for via carrier billing is expected to double and consumer spend could treble, according to new research from Juniper Research.

5G could add as much as £15.7 billion (€18.4 billion) per year to the UK economy by 2024, according to a new report, but only if it's rolled out and adopted fast enough.

Total operator revenues from A2P (Application-to-Person) messaging services will reach $62 billion (€55 billion) by 2023, up from an estimated $43 billion (€38 billion) in 2019.

The UK’s largest broadband and landline providers will automatically compensate customers when services don’t work.

Deutsche Telekom’s enterprise subsidiary, T-Systems, has connected its cloud-based IoT platform to that of SAP. 

UK mobile operators BT, O2, Three and Vodafone are in talks to agree a new barter system which would allow them to share masts more easily to boost rural coverage.

Nokia is celebrating its 30th commercial 5G contract, following a new deal with A1 Telekom in Austria.

The Danish Energy Agency has completed its latest spectrum auction and TDC has come away with the majority of the available assets.  

Despite an ongoing row with the US about network security, Huawei maintained strong business growth in 2018, with net profit reaching Rmb59.3 billion (€7.86 billion), up 25.1% year-on-year.

A trial led by Portuguese regulator, ANACOM, has successfully demonstrated a Licensed Shared Access (LSA) model within the 2.3 - 2.4GHz band.

In 2018, data usage per SIM grew for all mobile operators ranked in tefficient’s latest analysis. Of this, 46% were able to convert this rise in data usage into average revenue per user (ARPU) growth, while 54% could not.

At the end of 2018, around 7.8 million people were using connected care solutions in Europe and by 2024, this figure is set to rise to 17.3 million. This growth could create new opportunities for operators.

Orange's early-stage investment fund, Orange Digital Ventures, has invested €3 million in the French start-up, Cycloid.

Blockchain spending in Europe will surpass more than $800 million (€712.6 million) this year, making the continent one of the fastest growing regions in the world for expenditure on the technology.