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The Latest in RCS, 5G, XR and AI: Future Networks at MWC19 Shanghai

As MWC returns to Shanghai later this month, there is a natural focus on the latest developments in Rich Communications Services (RCS), the mobile industry’s major collaborative upgrade to SMS. RCS Business Messaging offers particularly rich commercial opportunities for operators, …Read more

RCS Goes Mainstream

Industry momentum on RCS is accelerating with many new deployments coming in 2019. RCS is a standards-based global upgrade to SMS delivering rich messaging experiences to users and enables Rich Business Messaging communications between brands and consumers. RCS launches have …Read more

GSMA Convenes Industry to Discuss Future of LTE

The GSMA held a high-level meeting with over twenty representatives from mobile operators, regulatory bodies and equipment and chip vendors to discuss the future of the LTE industry. Participants exchanged views about the challenges facing operators as commercial 5G approaches. …Read more

GSMA Beta Labs Launches Energy Benchmarking Tool to Help Operators Monitor Their Energy Consumptions

The GSMA Future Networks Programme has launched an Operator Network Energy Benchmark (ONE Benchmark) initiative to support member operators against the projected increase in energy consumption as well as support the UN’s 2030 goals for sustainable development. According to the …Read more

How Brands are Transforming Consumer Communications with 5* Results

The latest RCS Business Messaging Seminar at MWC19 Barcelona, Intelligently Transforming Consumer Experiences, brought experts from across the ecosystem to discuss how consumers and brands are helping to shape the success of RCS as it rolls out across the world. …Read more

Cloud XR to Bring New Commercial Avenues to Mobile Industry through 5G

Among the biggest opportunities of the 5G era is XR, or extended reality – the spectrum of technologies incorporating virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and simulated reality. VR, in particular, has felt like the ‘technology of tomorrow’ for some …Read more

5G Takes Centre Stage at the MWC’s Innovation City

5G is not simply the latest incremental step from 4G – it’s an entirely different proposition altogether.  5G will completely transform the role connectivity plays in our everyday lives, making widespread some extraordinary use cases which were the preserve of …Read more

5G, Messaging, and Beta Labs – Future Networks at MWC19 Barcelona

MWC19 Barcelona, the world’s premier event in the telecoms calendar, kicks off next week – and the future of mobile network services will, naturally, take centre stage. The GSMA’s Future Networks programme has a packed agenda this year, which we …Read more

Network Economics: Why cost intensity and customer experience are so important for operators

By Jasdeep Badyal, Lead Analyst, GSMA Beta Labs Over the last 12 months, the GSMA Beta Labs has brought together innovators, vendors and operators in the fields of Backhaul, Energy Efficiency and Infrastructure Sharing, and identified over $450m worth of …Read more
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