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GSMA and BMZ Announce New Partnership to Drive Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development
Tuesday 29 September, 2020 | Press Release
29th September 2020, London: The GSMA and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring together their expertise in leveraging digital technologies to drive sustainable development. The ...
GSMA to Host MWC Africa in Kigali During 2021
Tuesday 29 September, 2020 | Press Release
News announced during GSMA Thrive Africa virtual conference Nearly half a billion people subscribe to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa 29 September 2020, London: GSMA has announced it will host MWC Africa in Kigali, Rwanda in 2021, bringing the leading global event ...
Driving the Digital Revolution: Collaboration is Key to Closing Coverage and Connectivity Gaps
Monday 28 September, 2020 | All Documents | Press Release
28 September 2020, London: Over the last decade, mobile has connected more than 2.5 billion people to the internet, with mobile broadband coverage reaching in excess of 90% of the world’s population. Despite this rapid expansion of mobile internet infrastructure, there is ...
Mobile Industry Continues to Close the Digital Divide Accelerating Global Impact Across All SDGs, Says GSMA Report
Friday 25 September, 2020 | Press Release
In 2019, the mobile industry increased impact across all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals for the 5th year in a row Mobile connectivity has driven significant economic, social and environmental gains To maximise the mobile industry’s contribution to the SDGs by 2030, ...
GSMA Announces Date Changes for its MWC21 Series
Wednesday 23 September, 2020 | Press Release
MWC Shanghai to Precede MWC Barcelona, MWC LA Remains as Planned 23 September 2020, London: GSMA today announced a rescheduling of its world-class MWC series for 2021. MWC21 Shanghai will now take place from 23 – 25 February 2021, and MWC21 Barcelona will now take place ...
GSMA Announces Progress on Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme
Monday 24 August, 2020 | Press Release
24 August 2020, London: The GSMA today announced that the world’s leading mobile network equipment vendors, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE, have successfully completed an assessment of their product development and lifecycle management processes using the GSMA’s Network ...
GSMA AND WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME ACCELERATE THE USE OF MOBILE FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
Thursday 6 August, 2020 | Press Release
6 August 2020, London: The GSMA and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their partnership to help the world’s most vulnerable people. Through the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation programme, which has been funded by the UK Department for ...
4YFN to Co-locate with MWC Barcelona in 2021
Tuesday 28 July, 2020 | Press Release
28 July 2020, London: The GSMA today announced that it is moving its 4YFN event from Fira Montjuïc and co-locating it with MWC Barcelona 2021 at Fira Gran Via. Combining these two influential events signals a new era and commitment to working together to fulfil the potential ...
GSMA Outlines Details of GSMA Thrive 2020 Virtual Platform Series
Tuesday 28 July, 2020 | Press Release
Pre-registration is Open for all GSMA Thrive Events 28 July 2020, London: After the hugely successful inaugural Thrive China event, the GSMA today announced full details of the GSMA Thrive 2020 series of events. Through GSMA Thrive, the virtual convening platform gives ...
GSMA Report Shows Mobile Industry Continues Asia Pacific Region Investment to Support Economic Recovery and Growth
Monday 6 July, 2020 | Press Release
Mobile Industry Generates $1.6 Trillion of Economic Value to Asia Pacific London: Asia Pacific mobile operators are to invest over $400 billion on their networks between 2020 and 2025, of which $331 billion will be spent on 5G deployments, according to the latest Asia ...
5G Stand Alone to Become Reality
Tuesday 30 June, 2020 | Press Release
GSMA Releases Guideline Document to Expedite the Deployment 5G Stand Alone Networks London: The GSMA convened pioneers in 5G to develop a guidelines document that provides technological, spectrum and regulatory support to operators in the deployment of 5G Stand Alone (5G SA) ...
GSMA Transitions Remaining Mobile 360 Series in 2020 to Virtual Events
Tuesday 23 June, 2020 | Statement
London: today the GSMA announced that for the balance of 2020, all remaining Mobile 360 2020 conferences will transition to a virtual series of events. Unfortunately, due to the global circumstances it is impossible to host in-person events. Health and safety remain our top ...
GSMA Statement on MWC Los Angeles 2020 from John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Limited
Monday 15 June, 2020 | Statement
Los Angeles: Since the first edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA has convened the industry, governments, ministers, policymakers, operators and industry leaders across the broader ecosystem. Our expansion to other cities around the world is our ...
GSMA Launches ‘GSMA Thrive’ Virtual Convening Platform
Tuesday 9 June, 2020 | Press Release
GSMA Thrive China First Event in Virtual Series London: the GSMA today announced the launch of the GSMA Thrive series, with the inaugural GSMA Thrive China event taking place 30 June – 2 July at www.mwcshanghai.com/gsmathrive. A virtual industry convening platform, GSMA ...
Stephanie Lynch-Habib Makes Capacity Magazine’s Power 100
Tuesday 2 June, 2020 | Press Release
GSMA CMO Hailed as ‘a driving force for the entire telecommunications industry’ London: GSMA Chief Marketing Officer, Stephanie Lynch-Habib, has been named one of Capacity Magazine’s Power 100 in its second annual ranking of the wholesale telecommunications industry’s ...
GSMA and O-RAN Alliance Collaborate on Opening up 5G Networks
Friday 29 May, 2020 | Press Release
Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Industry-Wide Consensus on the Adoption of Open, Interoperable Interfaces and Radio Access Network Virtualisation London: The GSMA and O-RAN ALLIANCE have joined forces to accelerate the adoption of Open Radio Access Network (RAN) products ...
COVID-19 Network Traffic Surge Isn’t Impacting Environment Confirm Telecom Operators
Friday 29 May, 2020 | COVID-19 | Press Release
More Energy Efficient Networks and Renewable Energy Usage are Negating Negative Environmental Impacts London: The energy consumption and carbon emissions of telecoms networks have remained mostly unchanged in recent weeks, despite significant increases in network traffic ...
The World Bank, WEF, GSMA and ITU Mobilized in the Fight Against COVID-19
Tuesday 21 April, 2020 | COVID-19 | Statement
Partners discussed a set of concrete actions to help governments and private sector cope with the pandemic. WASHINGTON —During a high-level dialogue, Finance and ICT ministers, ICT regulators, CEOs of telecom and technology companies from around the world discussed an ...
GSMA Statement on MWC Shanghai 2020
Friday 17 April, 2020 | Press Release
17 April 2020, Shanghai: In light of current government guidance1, the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel restrictions and other circumstances, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Shanghai 2020. The GSMA has been in regular contact with stakeholders, and sought ...
GSMA and Host City Parties Extend MWC Barcelona Agreement
Wednesday 15 April, 2020 | Statement
World’s Premier Mobile and Vertical Ecosystem Event Extended Through MWC2024 London: The GSMA today announced an agreement to extend MWC Barcelona through to 2024. In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the GSMA and the Host City Parties have been working through the ...