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5G Roaming is now a commercial reality
Wednesday 14 August, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
2019 has been widely referred to as ‘the year of 5G’, and it’s increasingly easy to see why. Following the first commercial launches in the US and South Korea (nationwide rollout by all three operators concurrently across all key cities and towns) on the 3rd of April this ...
LivePerson Talks Up RCS at GSMA RCS Business Messaging Lab at MWC Shanghai
Monday 15 July, 2019 | Digest | Latest News
The GSMA’s Future Networks programme hosted the 25th edition of its GSMA RCS Business Messaging Lab this week at MWC Shanghai. The event, which brings leading stakeholders in the messaging industry together such as mobile operators, aggregators and brands, took a focused ...
5G will open Cloud XR to the mass market – if we work together
Sunday 7 July, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Extended Reality, or XR – the spectrum of technologies including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), simulated reality (SR) and others – will deliver strikingly engaging visuals across a wide range of digital uses, in ways most people have never experienced. The ...
Linux Foundation and the GSMA Announce Partnership to Further Align NFVi Efforts
Tuesday 2 July, 2019 | Digest | Latest News
San Francisco, July 2, 2019 – LF Networking (LFN) and the GSMA today announced a partnership to create a common industry framework for Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVi). Hosted by the GSMA and created with input from the Linux Foundation, the Common NFVi ...
NEM and NEI – The perfect combination
Thursday 27 June, 2019 | Digest | Latest News
The GSMA is pleased to announce the launch of a new customer experience module in the Network Economics Model (NEM) following alignment with the Network Experience Index (NEI) from Huawei. We have taken this to the stage where we are opening the doors to operators within ...
RCS Goes Mainstream
Tuesday 21 May, 2019 | Digest | Latest News
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 ...
GSMA Convenes Industry to Discuss Future of LTE
Monday 29 April, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
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 ...
How Brands are Transforming Consumer Communications with 5* Results
Tuesday 2 April, 2019 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
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. With 74 ...
Cloud XR to Bring New Commercial Avenues to Mobile Industry through 5G
Monday 18 March, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
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 time, but ...
5G Takes Centre Stage at the MWC’s Innovation City
Monday 25 February, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
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 a very few who ...
5G, Messaging, and Beta Labs – Future Networks at MWC19 Barcelona
Saturday 23 February, 2019 | Digest | Future Networks Digest | Latest News
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 invite you to consider ahead ...
Network Economics: Why cost intensity and customer experience are so important for operators
Thursday 21 February, 2019 | Digest | Latest News | Network Economics Digest
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 potential savings in ...
Future Networks @ Innovation City MWC19 – Barcelona
Tuesday 22 January, 2019 | Digest | Future Networks Digest | Latest News
Venue: Hall 4, Fira, Gran Via, Barcelona Join Future Networks in one of the most visited exhibition spaces at MWC, Innovation City. We have partnered with Google, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Huawei, China Mobile, China Unicom and more to showcase cutting-edge innovations ...
2019 Will See RCS Transform Digital Marketing
Thursday 17 January, 2019 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
2019 Will See RCS Transform Digital Marketing Over the course of 2018, Rich Communications Services (RCS) proved its capacity not only to work as promised, but to make the brands using it some serious returns on investment. RCS Business Messaging has now been established ...
From DAS to Next Generation Indoor Systems: the Vital Shift for 5G-Readiness
Thursday 10 January, 2019 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
It has become increasingly apparent to the mobile industry in recent months that the networks of base stations which make its work possible are, in one very important way, imbalanced. The infrastructure which allows connected devices to talk to their networks – and to each ...
Innovation Heat Map Trends
Tuesday 8 January, 2019 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Innovation Heat Map Trends By Osaze Obazuaye, Future Networks, GSMA Cost reduction is at the forefront of Network Economics; therefore, it is important to identify the innovators who can demonstrate these savings, primarily in infrastructure sharing, backhaul relief and ...
GSMA Launches New Forum to Support 5G Cloud-Based AR/VR
Thursday 29 November, 2018 | 5G Digest | AR/VR Digest | Digest | Latest News
At Huawei’s 9th Global Broadband Forum held in London we announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative called The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum that is designed to accelerate the delivery and adoption of 5G cloud-based augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) ...
Industry Experts Gather in London to Strategise Deployment of RCS
Friday 23 November, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Industry Experts Gather in London to Strategise Deployment of RCS The GSMA’s RCS Business Messaging Labs are now an established fixture of the mobile industry calendar. With a total of 65 operator launches and 194 million Monthly Active Users, RCS has certainly made a huge ...
GSMA LAUNCHES NEW INDUSTRY-WIDE INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATOR EDGE CLOUD AR/VR
Wednesday 21 November, 2018 | 5G Digest | AR/VR Digest | Digest | Latest News | Press Release | Press Releases
Multiple Operators, Vendors and Content Providers to Collaborate to Accelerate Deployment of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Technology London: The GSMA today announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative called The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum that will focus on the ...
Leading the Way in 5G Fixed Wireless Access
Friday 26 October, 2018 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
“Connectivity is at the core of every company’s digital transformation. 5G will have a significant impact on how businesses work and how they engage with their customers” By Mo Katibeh, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), especially when ...