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A Decade of Mobile Money: Innovation, Growth and Sustainable Impact
Wednesday 30 March, 2022
By Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA As the sun begins to set behind the hills of her village in Uganda, Fortinee walks around her clinic and starts turning on lights. A simple task, but one that she does not take for granted. Without the lights, Fortinee was forced to ...
5G City: the population explosion and managing urban growth
Tuesday 1 March, 2022
By Alex Sinclair, CTO, GSMA According to the World Bank, by 2050 nearly 7 of 10 people in the world will live in cities representing extremely rapid urban growth. Naturally, this raises questions around how we manage this explosion in the urban population? The speed of ...
Close collaboration can provide a clear flight path for 5G and avionics
Monday 17 January, 2022
Co-existence between different technologies has long been the foundation of sound management of the radio spectrum – ensuring that citizens derive the maximum benefit from this resource. Since 1865, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been a focal point for ...
European Telecom Sector Welcomes Landmark Progress on Digital Service Regulation
Thursday 25 November, 2021
The European telecommunications industry applauds EU legislators for making progress this week on two key regulatory initiatives that have the potential to reshape the socioeconomic dynamics of digital platform ecosystems. The recent European Parliament’s vote on the Digital ...
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation: Open now
Tuesday 9 November, 2021
This week, during the Science and Innovation day at COP26, the GSMA, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and ...
Planning for 5G success in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wednesday 29 September, 2021
Blog attributed to GSMA’s Head of Sub Sahara Africa, Angela Wamola Spectrum planning is key to the successful rollout of mobile services. While the rollout of 5G is only growing, what happens now with spectrum policy will have a massive impact on the success of 5G and ...
Mobile’s crucial role tackling our pandemic recovery and the climate crisis
Monday 27 September, 2021
Blog attributed to Daniel Pataki, Head of Europe, GSMA The insights from our annual Mobile Economy Europe Report, published this month, are particularly pertinent as Europe embarks on post-pandemic recovery while tackling the climate crisis. The report shows the crucial role ...
How the rise of eSIM can grow MNO and OEM business
Thursday 2 September, 2021
Customer and operator demand for eSIM has never been higher, and its growth is accelerating. Soon eSIM will be part of the mobile industry’s day-to-day business, thanks to digitisation strategies, along with the need to facilitate the use of IoT devices. Therefore, knowing ...
GSMA and ETNO call for a more equitable and balanced approach towards taxation of the telecommunications sector under the new tax rules proposed by OECD/G20, August 2021
Tuesday 17 August, 2021
GSMA, ETNO and their members welcome the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework landmark agreement for taxation of the digitalizing economy. However, the industry is concerned that the current proposal fails to recognise the essential contribution of the telecommunications sector to ...
Keeping everyone and everything connected: How temporary access to spectrum can ease congestion during the COVID-19 crisis
Thursday 12 August, 2021
During the pandemic, mobile broadband, fixed wireless connections and mobile apps have become the main tools to remain operational and in contact with medical professionals, work colleagues and loved ones. The work of some role model countries can act as inspiration in parts ...
Capacity to Power Innovation: 5G in the 6 GHz Band
Monday 17 May, 2021
Spectrum in the 6 GHz range (5925-7125 MHz) provides the bandwidth to allow affordable connectivity for a 5G society. 5G is a pillar of digital transformation. Its integration into our lives and work has the potential to impact communities and economies, and as it delivers ...
Plan your Route to a Successful 4G/5G Rollout
Wednesday 12 May, 2021
Access the device intelligence you need to time network rollout and sunset accurately. With more and more people using apps and social media platforms for communication, cloud services and streaming content, cellular networks are under increasing strain. Those networks that ...
How Successful Spectrum Awards Can Accelerate Digital Agendas Across Africa
Friday 29 January, 2021
Blog attributed to Akinwale Goodluck, Head of Africa, GSMA The benefits of mobile broadband are clear to see all across Africa. For governments that want to continue to expand coverage and maximise the benefits from connectivity, making sure there is more affordable spectrum ...
How to Navigate the Era of Responsible Leadership in Today’s World
Wednesday 9 December, 2020
Fifty years ago, the economist Milton Friedman proclaimed that “there is one and only social responsibility of business – to use its resources to engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”[1] He decried as “unwitting puppets” those executives that take ...
The Nation of Shopkeepers Turns to Their Smartphones – Brits More Likely to Use Their Smartphones to Shop
Wednesday 25 November, 2020
Blog attributed to Jason Reed, Lead Analyst, Digital Consumer at GSMA Intelligence Cancelled seasonal parties, remembering face masks and hand sanitisers, nervous coughs, WFH, closed stores except for essential shopping. There are a lot good reasons to hunker down this ...
Children’s rights in the time of COVID-19: How can mobile play its part
Friday 20 November, 2020
Today is World Children’s Day – a day designated to children’s welfare. Celebrating child rights defines who we are and what we aspire to be as a global society. It is an opportunity to take stock on what we can do, both at an individual and organisational level, ...
Mobile’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: Good progress to date and much more to do
Monday 26 October, 2020
This blog was written by Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA “Even pre-COVID, the world was not on track to meet the SDGs.” This was the sobering statement from Sanda Ojiambo, CEO of the United Nations’ Global Compact, in her keynote at our recent webinar exploring the ...
Equal Access to Digital Technologies: A Key to Resilient Recovery
Thursday 22 October, 2020
This blog was written in partnership with the World Bank. Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA Mari Pangestu, Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Group A global pandemic was far from Loretta Ibrahim’s mind when she signed up for the Click-On ...
Collaboration key to beating coverage and connectivity gaps
Wednesday 16 September, 2020
In the last decade mobile has connected over 2.5 billion people to the internet and mobile broadband coverage is not over 90 per cent of the world’s population. As impressive as that is, 600 million people still live in areas with no coverage whatsoever. A second ...
U.N. Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing for the SDGs
Wednesday 26 August, 2020
Since the start of the global pandemic, the world has witnessed the benefits of being connected and the danger of being left out. For nearly 6 billion mobile subscribers, mobile technology has proven a lifeline that keeps loved ones connected, facilitates remote access to ...