Momentum for embedded SIMs, or eSIMs, is accelerating in the consumer market. By 2025, 60 per cent of smartphone unit sales will be eSIM-compatible, and eSIM shipments increased 83 per cent year-on-year in 2020. These facts alone would make anybody assume eSIM adoption has been virtually problem-free. However, despite significant breakthroughs, the market has experienced […]
Telecom
Internet connectivity has become an integral part of our daily life, without which, most daily activities could not be achieved properly. The ongoing digitalization has moved most business, governmental and other processes to the web, further limiting activities relying on physical interactions. Digital subscriber lines (DSL) have been the technology of choice in most countries […]
The telecommunication sector has been evolving at an extremely high pace. Operators have had to constantly work on upgrades and evolutions on their network infrastructure, while developing new services in parallel. As a result, they have been even forced to establish partnerships with many telecom vendors. Long gone are the days where operators had exclusive […]
The rise of blockchain technology will inevitably transform and disrupt many industries. It has laid the foundation for major advancements and innovations in communications and data technology, chief among them, the telecoms industry. In this article, we take a look at some use cases for blockchain in telecoms and home in on the most promising […]
The rise of remote working and cloud-based environments has triggered important conversations about cybersecurity in telecoms. Robust security training is a guarantee in organizations concerned about the repercussions of fraud to their subscribers, employees, and budgets. Tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have also seen huge amounts of investment from telcos to […]
The last four decades witnessed an incredibly fast development pace in the telecom sector. The GSM standard which was established in the late 80s marked the beginning of a new era, that of digital mobile communications. The introduction of the second generation of mobile communications was followed with an aggressive evolution path that saw the […]
Data-driven applications and use cases have literally exploded in numbers in the last decade. Business and data analytics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, machine-to-machine applications, augmented and virtual reality, medical diagnostics, are just some examples among many more. This type of services has been increasingly relying on the availability of proper computational resources and software […]
The seminal Bitcoin paper written by the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto has introduced a novel technical concept whose usefulness goes well beyond cryptocurrencies, blockchain. Blockchain is basically a shared distributed ledger, and each user of the associated network has a full copy of it. Once a transaction is made, it is first validated to make sure it is […]
The sixth generation of the in the evolution of wireless evolution promises to be disruptive in terms of the extreme solutions envisioned to meet the projected targets in terms of data rates, latencies, coverage, use cases, etc. The drive to ubiquitous connectivity and ever-increasing capacity requirements have pushed designers to foresee a vertical expansion of […]
Major Ericsson shareholders will vote against a motion to clear some board members of responsibility over possible payment of bribes to militant organisations in Iraq, deepening a crisis at the Swedish group that has knocked a quarter off its market value. Shareholders, including Cevian Capital, Swedbank Robur and Norway’s wealth fund, plan to vote against […]