Digital Health: lots of potential, limited progress
Wednesday 4 April, 2018 | 2018 | GSMA Europe Blog | News | What's New
New technology and digitalisation are changing healthcare. Digital health has quickly become an opportunity to face the raising challenges in health sector, such as the epidemic of non-communicable and chronic diseases, the growing demand of ageing populations and the ...
The role of Mobile in the FinTech Revolution
Friday 8 December, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog | News | What's New
On the 5 December 2017 GSMA Europe hosted a Mobile Meetings Series on “The role of Mobile in the FinTech Revolution”, participants discussed about how mobile technologies are supporting the FinTech revolution providing innovative, secure and accessible solutions to financial ...
The age of drones: new digital ecosystem for connectivity and economic growth
Friday 8 December, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog | News | What's New
The drone industry is emerging in every sector of the economy. Delivering services in urban areas, collecting data for a wide range of industries, infrastructure inspections, precision agriculture, transportation and logistics are just some of the possible uses of drone ...
Industry Experts to Share Insights on Trust, Privacy and Security at GSMA Mobile 360 – Privacy & Security
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
Are data privacy and security your top priorities? Find out why they should be on 23-24 May, 2017 in The Hague, Netherlands. The GSMA, in cooperation with The Hague Security Delta and The Municipality of The Hague, is hosting the second annual Mobile 360 – Privacy & ...
The GSMA’s Views On The European Data Economy
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The GSMA has responded to the European Commission’s consultation exploring emerging issues relating to the data economy, such as the free flow of data, access to and re-use of non-personal machine-generated data, as well as portability, interoperability and standards. The ...
Uneven 4G Adoption Has Implications for 5G Outlook
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
As operators look to shut down legacy 2G and 3G networks, slow 4G adoption could delay the refarming of spectrum, potentially stifling 5G deployment, according to new research by GSMA Intelligence. Just 10 markets account for 80% of global 4G connections Although 4G-LTE has ...
The GSMA Predicts Over One Billion 5G Connections By 2025
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
A new GSMA paper explains how 5G is moving beyond buzzwords and hype to become a reality that will reshape Europe’s society and economy in the next decade. The 5G Era will be an age of boundless connectivity for all and intelligent automation, enriching people’s lives and ...
It Is Time to Empower Women in The Digital Sector
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The latest European Commission data shows that enabling more women to enter the digital jobs market would boost the GDP of the EU by €9 billion per annum. There is still a very large gender gap in the European ICT sector, where only 30% of the seven million people working in ...
GSMA Breakfast Debate On Connectivity For Refugees
Wednesday 26 April, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
More than one million migrants and refugees have crossed into Europe since 2015, sparking an unprecedented crisis, as countries struggle to cope with the influx. The magnitude of this humanitarian crisis has highlighted the critical importance of connectivity for displaced ...
GSMA organises Mobile Connect Summit
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
As it becomes more apparent that digital identity solutions are needed across all sectors, the mobile industry seeks can play a key role with Mobile Connect, a portfolio of mobile-based secure universal authentication, authorization and identity solutions. This Summit is a ...
Embracing the Digital Revolution: Policies for Building the Digital Economy
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog | Uncategorized
The digital revolution, powered by mobile connectivity and technology innovation, has delivered far-reaching economic and social benefits to consumers, companies and countries. We are at the cusp of new technologies — the Internet of Things, machine intelligence and ...
It is time for forward-looking spectrum management
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
Effective spectrum management is pivotal to the growth of digital economy. Nonetheless, there has been a steady increase in the cost of spectrum, impacting the quality and affordability of mobile services. To address this important issue, the GSMA has published Effective ...
Digital Identity central to Mobile World Congress 2017
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
An enabler for all manner of next generation services, the concept of digital identity touched almost every aspect of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Various sessions at the Congress explored the degree to which the mobile industry’s interoperable digital identity ...
Connected cars are evolving very fast
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the European Automotive Telecom Alliance (EATA) presented the next steps to make automated driving a reality. During a roundtable discussion chaired by European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip, and in the presence of ...
ePrivacy Reform and the Data Economy
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
ePrivacy Reform: Customer-Friendly and Innovation-Ready Approach Needed On 10 January, the European Commission published its proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications. The Regulation is intended to replace Directive 2002/58/EC and complement the ...
Mobile World Congress 2017 attracted more than 108,000 visitors
Monday 20 March, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The 2017 edition of Mobile World Congress showcased how mobile is the force behind many emerging innovations. More than 108,000 professionals from 208 countries attended the Congress, which was covered by approximately 3,500 members of the international press and media. More ...
Mobile World Congress 2017: The Next Element
Wednesday 15 February, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The 2017 edition of GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC17) will start in just a few weeks. Also this year the four-day Congress will attract more than 100,000 visitors from nearly 200 countries to discuss key industry trends. The Ministerial Programme Alongside the Congress, the ...
GSMA response to the RSPG consultations on IoT and Intelligent Transport Systems
Wednesday 15 February, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The GSMA responded to the Radio Spectrum Policy Group’s two recent public consultations: the consultation on the Draft Opinion on the Spectrum Aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) including M2M and the consultation on the Draft RSPG Opinion on Spectrum Aspects of ...
GSMA Connected Living team at the IoT Privacy and Security Workshop
Wednesday 15 February, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
On 13 January, Ian Smith, IoT Security Lead at the GSMA, presented the GSMA’s IoT Security Guidelines and IoT Security Self-Assessment scheme to an Internet of Things Privacy & Security Workshop hosted by the European Commission, DG CONNECT, and the Alliance for Internet ...
Safer Internet day
Wednesday 15 February, 2017 | GSMA Europe Blog
The second year of the GSMA’s partnership with Child Helpline International (CHI) has focused on creating a safer internet, and how the two organisations’ members can support each other’s many endeavours in this area. Whilst child helplines in many countries have experience ...