There is a constraint at the heart of 5G monetization that no amount of engineering can overcome: the speed of light. Light travels through fibre at around 200,000 kilometres per second. That sounds fast, until you need a round-trip network response in under 10 milliseconds. Send a packet from a base station in Dublin to a regional data centre and back and you have already burned most of that...
This article was first published in Developing Telecoms.
Over the last two years, the move by CSPs (communications service providers) to increase their offers beyond connectivity and sell a wide range of digital services has become an increasingly urgent priority, as connectivity revenue growth has been almost flat. At the same time, AI has moved from small-scale proof of concepts aimed at...
In October 2025 Walmart announced that soon customers would be able to make purchases directly from ChatGPT. This move to AI-first shopping is a game changer. According to Walmart “the retail experience shifts from reactive to proactive as it learns, plans and predicts, helping customers anticipate their needs before they do.”
AI and B2B were the two of the hottest topics at the recent DTW-Ignite event in Copenhagen. AI was everywhere and the messaging and use cases are evolving from using AI to save money and increase efficiencies to how AI can help increase revenues by creating and selling new offers. At DTW-Ignite Qvantel covered off the two hottest topics at the event by showcasing how AI driven BSS can be used to...
The telecom industry faces two major challenges: high costs and stagnant growth. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) must find innovative ways to enhance operational cost efficiency, especially as the core market for connectivity services experiences minimal growth. Simultaneously, they need to capitalise on emerging opportunities in high-growth segments such as Beyond Connectivity offerings...
Have you ever taken the time to read the annual reports and accounts of different telecoms operators? It may not be the most exciting way to spend an afternoon, but if you work in telecoms it’s well worth the effort as it provides a view on KPIs and how operators define and measure success and what their strategic objectives are. Reading the KPIs of some operators is like time travel. All of a...
This article was first published in The Fast Mode.
With MWC Barcelona taking place this week at the Fira Gran Via, Ariana Lynn, Principal Analyst at The Fast Mode spoke to Jukka Heiska, CMO of Qvantel on the company's participation at the event.
The start of January means three things: Back to work after a couple of weeks of over-indulgence, a realisation that MWC is going to be here sooner than you think, and also CES with its reports of the latest and greatest gadgets and tech.
Visiting TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event this week it was good to see the event busy and catch up with friends and industry colleagues. The last time I was (physically) at DTW was in 2019 in Nice, and then the focus was all on this wave of digital transformation that was going to hit the industry. It’s fair to say that since 2019 the rate of transformation in telecoms has surpassed...