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GSMA CALLS ON GOVERNMENTS TO LICENSE 6 GHZ TO POWER 5G

5G’s economic potential at risk as countries diverge on critical 6 GHz spectrum 17 May 2021, London: The global future of 5G is at ...

Capacity to Power Innovation: 5G in the 6 GHz Band

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 ...

Plan your Route to a Successful 4G/5G Rollout

Access the device intelligence you need to time network rollout and sunset accurately. With more and more people using apps and social ...

MWC21 Barcelona Announces Event Highlights

Back to business, back to Barcelona for the world’s mobile ecosystem 6 May 2021, London: The GSMA has today announced event highlights ...

Over a Third of Mobile Industry Racing to Net Zero

UN ‘Race To Zero’ Celebrates Mobile ‘Breakthrough’ Almost Two-Thirds Mobile Industry Committed to Science-Based Carbon Reduction ...

GSMA Introduces MWC21 Travel Partner Gray Dawes

Travel service provided at no charge to MWC21 participants travelling to Barcelona 19 April 2021, London: Today, GSMA introduces Gray ...

Lessons from the pandemic: Planning a return to MWC Barcelona

The last 12 months have been a learning experience for all of us. Many have suffered great hardship or made sacrifices, personally and ...

GSMA Announces International Travel Authorisation for MWC21 Barcelona

Registered exhibitors and attendees to be permitted entry to Spain 7 April 2021, London: The GSMA and Ministry of the Interior of the ...

GSMA & UNDP announce an ‘Impact Partnership’ Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals at MWC Barcelona 2021

31 March 2021, London: The GSMA and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today a new partnership that will ...

GSMA Partners with Leading Medical Provider for Delivery of MWC21 Barcelona

Partner Updates for MWC’s health and safety plan, Committed Community 24 March 2021, London: The GSMA has shared further details ...

Mobile Money Accounts Grow to 1.2 Billion in 2020

Driven by the global pandemic, international transactions increased by 65% during 2020 24 March 2021, London: The GSMA has today ...

GSMA Statement on Connectivity and Network Disruptions

The GSMA is deeply concerned about the impact that government/authorities’ restrictions on connectivity and internet services are ...

GSMA ANNOUNCES TELCODR AS A MAJOR EXHIBITOR AT MWC BARCELONA 2021

12 March 2021, London: GSMA introduces TelcoDR, the public cloud transformation specialist, as one of the largest exhibitors by floor ...

GSMA PRESENTS HEALTH AND SAFETY PLAN FOR MWC21

A multi-layered plan to ensure a safe environment for everyone MWC21 takes place 28 June – 1 July 2021 in Barcelona 8 March 2021, ...

MWC Shanghai 2021 Makes a Dramatic Return With 200,000 Representatives as an International Physical & Digital Event

4 March 2021, Hong Kong: Connected Impact was the theme of MWC Shanghai 2021 and the GSMA has just revealed that the event held in ...

GSMA Heralds a New Era Of Connected Impact as MWC Shanghai Returns as a Hybrid Event

China continues its rapid uptake of 5G with 200m additional connections in the last year 23 February, Shanghai: GSMA is celebrating a ...

MWC Shanghai 2021 Launches Dedicated Virtual Portal Bringing Together an In-Person and Online Audience

A HYBRID EVENT FOR OUR NEW NORMAL 18 February, Shanghai: GSMA has announced that MWC Shanghai 2021 will be the first large-scale ...

GSMA Reveals Shortlist for 2021 Asia Mobile Awards

5 February 2021, Shanghai: The GSMA announced this week the shortlist of nominees for the 2021 Asia Mobile Awards (AMO Awards). The AMO ...

Sovereignty, Resilience and Trust: Strengthening Europe’s Digital Economy after COVID-19

The GSMA, on behalf of its European members, presents the mobile industry’s vision for 2021 and beyond in its latest report. Top ...

How Successful Spectrum Awards Can Accelerate Digital Agendas Across Africa

Blog attributed to Akinwale Goodluck, Head of Africa, GSMA The benefits of mobile broadband are clear to see all across Africa. For ...

GSMA Intelligence Shares ‘Global Mobile Trends 2021’

Navigating Covid-19 and Beyond: Trends and Updates for Global Mobile Markets 15 December 2020, London: GSMA Intelligence has published ...

GSMA Announces MWC Shanghai is Back for 2021

MWC Shanghai 2021 runs from 23 to 25 February exploring how technology and connectivity can lead the global recovery 15 December 2020, ...

GSMA Wins WEPs Award

11th December 2020, London: The GSMA was honoured to receive the 2020 G7-EU Women’s Empowerment Principles Award in the Best Network ...

How to Navigate the Era of Responsible Leadership in Today’s World

Fifty years ago, the economist Milton Friedman proclaimed that “there is one and only social responsibility of business – to use its ...

GSMA Launches Framework to Improve Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

3rd December 2020, London: To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GSMA is launching the ‘Principles for ...

Latin America Enters the 5G Era with 15 million Connections Expected by 2022

5G productivity boost in the enterprise segment set to improve further the mobile industry’s contribution to the regional economy, ...

The Nation of Shopkeepers Turns to Their Smartphones – Brits More Likely to Use Their Smartphones to Shop

Blog attributed to Jason Reed, Lead Analyst, Digital Consumer at GSMA Intelligence Cancelled seasonal parties, remembering face masks ...

GSMA Board Re-Elects Chair and Elects New Deputy Chair

Orange’s Stéphane Richard Continues as GSMA Board Chair; Verizon’s Rima Qureshi Elected Deputy Chair; Both to Serve from January 2021 ...

New perspectives: How COVID-19 has shifted sustainability priorities in the mobile sector

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an unprecedented human and economic crisis, affecting all corners of the world. As ...

Children’s rights in the time of COVID-19: How can mobile play its part

Today is World Children’s Day – a day designated to children’s welfare. Celebrating child rights defines who we are and ...

GSMA Elects New Board Members

GSMA Names 26-Member Board to Serve from January 2021 through December 2022 16 November 2020, London: The GSMA has elected new members ...

Achieving Russia’s 5G Goals

Restrictive Radio Frequency Limits Should be Aligned with International Guidelines 12 November 2020, Moscow: 5G, the next generation of ...

Mobile Operators Set to Invest $25bn in Infrastructure Across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Region

Mobile technologies and services contributed $137b to region’s GDP in 2019 11 November 2020, London: The latest GSMA Intelligence ...

GSMA Signs Digital Development Agreements with Malaysia, Pakistan, Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association

Announcements made at Thrive Asia Pacific; event registrations are open 3 November 2020, London: To help foster and accelerate digital ...

Asia Pacific Digital Leaders Meet Online at Thrive Asia Pacific to Discuss Digital Transformation for the Region

GSMA Intelligence research shows a whole-of-government approach practiced by Asia Pacific countries is advancing their progress to ...

5G to Account for Half of North America’s Mobile Connections by 2025

Mobile’s contribution to the North American economy reached $1tn in 2019 27 October 2020, Los Angeles: 5G will account for more than ...

Mobile’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: Good progress to date and much more to do

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 ...

Thrive North America Convenes Mobile Industry Leaders with Focus on Connected Recovery for the COVID-19 Era

Speaker line-up includes CEOs from mobile operators, carriers as well as L.A. business leaders and national policymakers Registrations ...

Equal Access to Digital Technologies: A Key to Resilient Recovery

This blog was written in partnership with the World Bank. Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA Mari Pangestu, Managing Director, ...

GSMA and BMZ Announce New Partnership to Drive Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development

29th September 2020, London: The GSMA and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) have recently ...

GSMA to Host MWC Africa in Kigali During 2021

News announced during GSMA Thrive Africa virtual conference Nearly half a billion people subscribe to mobile services in Sub-Saharan ...

Driving the Digital Revolution: Collaboration is Key to Closing Coverage and Connectivity Gaps

28 September 2020, London: Over the last decade, mobile has connected more than 2.5 billion people to the internet, with mobile ...

Mobile Industry Continues to Close the Digital Divide Accelerating Global Impact Across All SDGs, Says GSMA Report

In 2019, the mobile industry increased impact across all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals for the 5th year in a row Mobile ...

GSMA Announces Date Changes for its MWC21 Series

MWC Shanghai to Precede MWC Barcelona, MWC LA Remains as Planned 23 September 2020, London: GSMA today announced a rescheduling of its ...

Collaboration key to beating coverage and connectivity gaps

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 ...

U.N. Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing for the SDGs

Since the start of the global pandemic, the world has witnessed the benefits of being connected and the danger of being left out. For ...

GSMA Announces Progress on Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme

24 August 2020, London: The GSMA today announced that the world’s leading mobile network equipment vendors, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and ...

GSMA AND WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ACCELERATE THE USE OF MOBILE FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

6 August 2020, London: The GSMA and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their partnership to help the world’s most ...

Using mobile big data to help inform the fight against COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 epidemic. The country is already dealing with ...

4YFN to Co-locate with MWC Barcelona in 2021

28 July 2020, London: The GSMA today announced that it is moving its 4YFN event from Fira Montjuïc and co-locating it with MWC ...

GSMA Outlines Details of GSMA Thrive 2020 Virtual Platform Series

Pre-registration is Open for all GSMA Thrive Events 28 July 2020, London: After the hugely successful inaugural Thrive China event, the ...

GSMA Report Shows Mobile Industry Continues Asia Pacific Region Investment to Support Economic Recovery and Growth

Mobile Industry Generates $1.6 Trillion of Economic Value to Asia Pacific London: Asia Pacific mobile operators are to invest over ...

How the emergence of connected drones is helping the fight against COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us all to adapt at speed, and ask some deeply unwelcome questions – among the most difficult of ...

5G Stand Alone to Become Reality

GSMA Releases Guideline Document to Expedite the Deployment 5G Stand Alone Networks London: The GSMA convened pioneers in 5G to develop ...

AI4I Webinar series : Using Mobile Big Data Analytics to combat global challenges inc. COVID-19

An overview of Mobile Big Data Analytics With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, governments are seeking innovative and ...

AI for Impact : Mobile Big Data Analytics to combat challenges including COVID-19

Using Mobile Big Data Analytics to combat global challenges including COVID-19 With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, ...

GSMA Transitions Remaining Mobile 360 Series in 2020 to Virtual Events

London: today the GSMA announced that for the balance of 2020, all remaining Mobile 360 2020 conferences will transition to a virtual ...

GSMA Statement on MWC Los Angeles 2020 from John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Limited

Los Angeles: Since the first edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA has convened the industry, governments, ...

GSMA Launches ‘GSMA Thrive’ Virtual Convening Platform

GSMA Thrive China First Event in Virtual Series London: the GSMA today announced the launch of the GSMA Thrive series, with the ...

5G: Empowering Recovery and Fighting Misinformation in Europe

On 3 June, the GSMA, alongside ETNO, hosted an online event on 5G: Empowering Recovery and Fighting Misinformation, garnering over 700 ...

COVID-19: Digital Contact Tracing Applications

As the world works around the clock and across many fronts to combat COVID-19, the mobile industry is playing a critical role. Mobile ...

Stephanie Lynch-Habib Makes Capacity Magazine’s Power 100

GSMA CMO Hailed as ‘a driving force for the entire telecommunications industry’ London: GSMA Chief Marketing Officer, Stephanie ...

GSMA and O-RAN Alliance Collaborate on Opening up 5G Networks

Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Industry-Wide Consensus on the Adoption of Open, Interoperable Interfaces and Radio Access Network ...

COVID-19 Network Traffic Surge Isn’t Impacting Environment Confirm Telecom Operators

More Energy Efficient Networks and Renewable Energy Usage are Negating Negative Environmental Impacts London: The energy consumption ...

Driving Digital Transformation for Women and Girls through Mobile: Unlocking the Potential of Small States

The 2019 Sustainable Development Goals Report from the United Nations Secretary General points to the fact none of the Sustainable ...

Digital Declaration signatories: companies’ response to COVID-19

It’s being said a lot: we are living in unprecedented times. It is precisely when we face the unknown, or a new endeavour, the need for ...

A message from the GSMA Leadership Team on the mobile industry during COVID-19

Hear from the GSMA Leadership Team on how the mobile industry is supporting emerging technology, protecting privacy, connecting ...

Joint Statement of the UNI Europa ICTS and the Telecom Industry Representatives: Attacks against telecom employees must stop now

Brussels, 19 May 2020 – The European trade union federation representing telecom workers, UNI Europa ICTS, and the Associations ...

The Role of AI for Impact in the Fight against COVID-19

It is difficult to overstate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families, industries, and governments across the globe. The disease ...

5G: A Backbone for Europe’s Economic Recovery

One of the biggest strengths of the GSMA – our ability to convene 110,000 people from 90 countries for the annual MWC in Barcelona – ...

Adjusting mobile tax policy in light of COVID-19: How fiscal policy can keep us connected

As countries battle with the coronavirus outbreak, governments around the world are taking unprecedented fiscal and economic measures ...

The Mobile Industry: Keeping us connected during COVID-19

Mobile operators are working around the clock; strengthening their networks, connecting the unconnected and supporting all of us during ...

COVID-19 Crisis Response: Digital Development Joint Action Plan and Call for Action

Agreed by the World Bank, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the GSMA and the World Economic Forum (WEF) this Joint ...

The World Bank, WEF, GSMA and ITU Mobilized in the Fight Against COVID-19

Partners discussed a set of concrete actions to help governments and private sector cope with the pandemic. WASHINGTON —During a ...

COVID-19: Mobile Cyber Security & Fraud Threat Observations and Incidents

This report has been prepared by members of the GSMA Fraud and Security Group (FASG) management team which comprises the various ...

GSMA Statement on MWC Shanghai 2020

17 April 2020, Shanghai: In light of current government guidance1, the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel ...

A message from the GSMA Leadership Team during COVID-19

A message of thanks from the GSMA Leadership Team to mobile operators and key workers during the current global pandemic.

GSMA and Host City Parties Extend MWC Barcelona Agreement

World’s Premier Mobile and Vertical Ecosystem Event Extended Through MWC2024 London: The GSMA today announced an agreement to extend ...

GSMA Opens Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion

GSMA Calls for Applications to Develop Digital Access Solutions in Africa and Asia London: the GSMA today opened applications for the ...

Keeping Everyone and Everything Connected in Europe: European Mobile Network Operators respond to COVID-19 pandemic

The breakout of novel coronavirus in Europe has paralysed the lives of many European citizens and businesses. As Europe and the world ...

Do biological viruses affect digital security?

We are living in times of global uncertainty with un-precedented levels of disruption to daily routine, travel, social interaction and ...

Mobile Industry Response to COVID-19 in China

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions globally, affecting people’s lives, their health and safety, as well as ...

Maintaining consumer trust in the fight against COVID-19

COVID-19 continues to fundamentally change the global landscape. Responding to this crisis situation, mobile network operators are ...

Eleven Regulatory Recommendations to Sustain Connectivity During the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis shared by all, requiring consumers, companies and governments to adapt to new ...

GSMA Condemns Attacks Against Mobile Phone Masts

Health Experts Confirm No Link Between 5G and COVID-19 London: Police and counter-terrorism authorities are investigating acts of ...

Keeping North America Connected During COVID-19

More than ever, reliable connectivity is a necessity. In the wake of COVID-19, people across North America are socially distancing and ...

Keeping the world connected: Development challenges in times of COVID-19

The role of mobile technology in these trying times has never been more pivotal. Mobile technology is serving as a connectivity tool ...

Keeping everyone and everything connected: How temporary access to spectrum can ease congestion during the COVID-19 crisis

In the wake of the social restrictions in place to help manage the threat of COVID-19, billions of people worldwide are relying on ...

Mobile industry has never been more important to world’s citizens and global economy

I would like to recognise the contributions that mobile operators around the world are making to help their communities meet the ...

Japan’s RCS Service Seeing Strong Momentum and Growing Business Messaging Opportunity

More Than 40m Users of Japan’s +Message Service Forecast by 2021 Tokyo: Japan’s RCS-based ‘+Message’ service is demonstrating strong ...

GSMA Statement on Financial Package for MWC Barcelona 2020

London: Following the cancellation of MWC Barcelona 2020, the GSMA has given much consideration to a financial package for its clients ...

GSMA Report Highlights That Mobile Money Accounts Now Exceed One Billion Worldwide

Mobile Money Industry Processed US$2 Billion in Transactions Per Day in 2019 London: The GSMA today unveiled the annual ‘State of the ...

Reform Policy to Boost Kenya’s Mobile Connectivity Says GSMA

48 Per Cent of the Population of Kenya Remains Unconnected to Mobile Networks Nairobi: Kenya is making excellent progress to achieve ...

GSMA: China Maintains 5G Leadership Role in the Face of COVID-19

GSMA Partners with Mobile Industry in China to Highlight 5G Momentum Beijing: China has cemented its position as a global 5G leader as ...

New Radio Frequency Guidelines Good News for 5G

The debate on health concerns related to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure has been ongoing through every generation of mobile ...

GTI & GSMA Call for Governments to Facilitate the 5G Era

White Paper in Collaboration with the GSMA Highlights Best Practice from National 5G Plans London: Countries must step up their efforts ...

GSMA: 5G Moves from Hype to Reality – but 4G Still King

Global Mobile Economy Valued at $4.9 Trillion by 2024 as 5G Ramps Up London: 5G has gained significant traction over the past year and ...

GSMA Study Finds Over Half of Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Now Access Mobile Internet

Mobile Industry Renews its Commitment to Reduce the Persisting Mobile Gender Gap London: A new GSMA study launched today shows that ...

5G Driving Edge Computing Momentum in China Finds New GSMA Study

100+ Edge Projects Deployed in China Leveraging 5G and IoT Infrastructure Shanghai: Almost 90 per cent of mobile ecosystem players in ...

Telecom Operators Collaborate to Build the Telco Edge Cloud Platform with GSMA Support

Shared Approach Aims to Bring Applications Closer to End-Users and Enable the Implementation of Innovative Enterprise Services London: ...

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