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Mobilising the industry on climate action
Monday 16 September, 2019
Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced and the mobile industry has a big part to play in fighting this global crisis. In 2016, mobile became the world’s first industry to commit to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ever since, ...
Championing a Better Future through Business
Monday 2 September, 2019
The GSMA’s ‘Champions for a Better Future’ initiative is bringing an ever-growing number of mobile industry leaders together who are committed to showcasing how understanding and responding to social, environmental and ethical issues is good for business. Through embedding ...
What makes a data privacy law ‘smart’? A look at Africa and beyond
Tuesday 9 July, 2019
The mobile industry is forecast to contribute $185 billion to GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023, and through mobile, nearly 250 million more people are expected to access the internet by 2025 (according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa Report). Countries ...
GSMA Global Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2019
Monday 24 June, 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on mobile operators’ businesses and the wider mobile ecosystem. Today, many operators are experimenting and deploying machine learning and other AI techniques at scale, but getting it right and scaling ...
GSMA BETA Labs: Saving Operators Millions and Helping to Usher in the 5G Era
Tuesday 18 June, 2019
The 5G era promises to deliver incredible mobile broadband speeds, transforming society and ushering in a host of socio-economic benefits. It’s expected to be the panacea that will address a diverse array of requirements and use cases such as enhanced transportation, public ...
The City of the Future
Thursday 30 May, 2019
Mobile technology is having a hugely transformative impact on our daily lives, fundamentally changing the way we engage with the world around us. Mobile service now extends to 95% of the global population and mobile internet users are forecast to reach 5 billion by 2025. ...
GSMA Tech4Girls Initiative Launches Globally in support of International Girls in ICT Day
Tuesday 23 April, 2019
International Girls in ICT Day aims to inspire and encourage young women to explore career opportunities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects through a combination of talks from high-profile female industry leaders and interactive ...
The Mobile Industry Prove Themselves Champions of IoT Security
Thursday 7 March, 2019
As the Internet of Things grows, anxieties over enterprise and consumer security understandably grow with it. The basic question is a reasonable one: how can we ensure this surge in global connectivity delivers the benefits and efficiencies it so credibly promises, without ...
Getting spectrum right, sets the stage for great 5G
Thursday 14 February, 2019
The first commercial 5G services are already here and the coming years will see launches all over the world. The integration of the technology into our lives and work has the potential to impact communities and economies even more than previous generations. But not all 5G ...
5G Connectivity in Rural Cities
Tuesday 22 January, 2019
The New Year will bring a major milestone for the mobile industry as global carriers will begin rolling out 5G service to millions of consumers. In addition to an influx of international carriers such as Telus Mobility, Entel and China Unicom, the four major U.S. carriers ...
Closing the Connectivity Gap
Friday 26 October, 2018
For over a decade, the GSMA has been working to close the digital gender gap. Our Connected Women Programme is currently helping to enable the digital and financial inclusion of millions of women around the world. Collaboration is key to the realisation of such ambitions, so ...
Cross-border data flows for a brighter future
Tuesday 23 October, 2018
As privacy regulators from around the world descend on Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC), the GSMA is preparing to host a discussion on cross-border data flows. Barriers to data flows could stifle ...
UK Government Backs GSMA IoT Security Guidelines
Monday 15 October, 2018
The UK Government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has this week published its IoT Security ‘Code of Practice’, which makes reference to the GSMA’s IoT Security Guidelines as an example of industry best practice. The GSMA’s guidelines outline a number of ...
Measuring mobile’s impact on sustainable development at UNGA
Wednesday 10 October, 2018
The GSMA was in New York last month to represent the mobile industry at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Over the course of the week the GSMA participated in a wide range of activities with several high-profile partners, providing a platform for dialogue ...
How mobile big data can help eradicate one of the biggest killers of our time
Wednesday 26 September, 2018
Heads of state will gather in New York on 26 September this year at the UN General Assembly’s first-ever high-level meeting on how to accelerate efforts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB). The ability to use the ‘big data’ from mobile networks to identify vulnerable populations ...
Empowering the Next Generation
Friday 15 June, 2018
Gone are the days when mobile phones were viewed as the antithesis of learning. With nearly every student carrying a device at all times, what better way of delivering learning than by harnessing mobile technology and making education more stimulating, personalised and ...
Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges in the Mobile Industry
Thursday 31 May, 2018
It seems that we see a never-ending wave of reports detailing the latest security breaches or denial of service (DoS) attacks; just looking at last year, 2017 was dominated by ransomware variants like WannaCry and organisations such as Equifax declaring massive data ...
Facebook, Fines and GDPR: the global implications of the GDPR
Monday 21 May, 2018
In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica incident, Facebook moved more than 1.5 billon user accounts out of the reach of EU data privacy regulators. Presumably worried about unnecessarily exposing themselves to the risk of incurring a hefty fine that could be levied under ...
New Research Highlights Demand for RCS Business Messaging
Monday 16 April, 2018
Global adoption of Rich Communications Services (RCS) is accelerating quickly around the world, with over 50 network launches as well as network interconnections in the Americas and Europe. Additionally, numerous brands are already launching trials of RCS Business Messaging ...
Driving forward Africa’s Digital Revolution at Mobile 360 Series – West Africa, 11-12 April 2018
Thursday 5 April, 2018
According to the GSMA’s upcoming Mobile Economy West Africa 2018 report, subscriber penetration rates reached 47 per cent in West Africa, up from 28 per cent at the start of the decade. This rapid growth has meant that mobile has brought new opportunities for governments, ...