Category: Magazine articles

George Malim finds that standardisation, automated provisioning and renewed focus on secure credentials are driving eSIM uptake.

Vincent Korstanje, the chief executive of Kigen, considers what is needed for a rich roadmap of system innovations across high reliability, device connectivity and cost. The bottom line is; security needs to be built in from the start.

As well as reducing the cost and complexity of deploying IoT, embedded SIM can become the root of trust to deliver critical IoT applications relying on rich edge-to-cloud deployments, writes Matt Hatton, the founding partner of Transforma Insights.

New technologies always bring new risks and often an expanded threat surface so has eSIM done enough with the latest IoT SAFE initiative and moves to enable it as a secure element, asks George Malim?

The telecoms industry has a bad reputation for innovation and is seen by many to have missed out on the major new, digital opportunities of the last three decades. This is broadly unfair as telecoms operators have provided the hyper-connectivity foundation that is enabling all of these services. Operators have worked within the constraints of the traditional market place, bringing ultra-robust, high-availability services to market rather than the best effort, beta products of the digital age that rely on customer-led development.

Jorn Vercamert is vice president of communications solutions at BICS, an international communications enabler headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The company focuses on providing global mobile connectivity to more than 150 million devices, as well as seamless roaming experiences with 50% of the world’s data roaming traffic flowing over BICS’ network. BICS also provides fraud prevention and authentication, as well as other services, from global messaging to the Internet of Things (IoT).

Application-to-person (A2P) messaging is an area where operators continue to see steady growth. An increasing number of enterprises are recognising the importance of SMS in their omnichannel strategies on account of its ubiquity and reach, and this rise in A2P messaging offers revenue potential for mobile operators that is yet to be realised today.

The advent of 5G will unlock new possibilities for cellular network-enabled solutions of all kinds, ranging from consumer broadband services and gaming propositions through to complex mission-critical IoT solutions and simpler low-bandwidth IoT monitoring solutions. Jim Morrish, a founding partner of Transforma Insights, explores the opportunities.

With 5G now emerging as a commercial reality in some markets, much of the early activity is happening in private networks. These provide an early opportunity for service providers of various types to monetise 5G. However, as public networks add further coverage, 5G will enable an even larger number of use cases. The technology enables opportunities from selling network slices for specific functions to enabling assured experiences.

5G offers the potential for tailored performance for the first time and this means CSPs can focus on the value they provide for each service rather than only the network access. Enabling new forms of monetisation is the key to 5G profitability and creating a sustainable market place for 5Gdependent services.

Unlike 3G and 4G, 5G is not a technology in search of a use case – there are plenty to go round. However, CSPs are in search of ways to effectively monetise 5G. Antony Savvas considers how they can do it.

Technology enabled solutions are becoming ever more critical to the day-to-day operations of many enterprises. Among the most impactful technologies are artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and next generation communication technologies such as 5G. Edge computing may garner fewer headlines, but it is a key enabler for many solutions that utilise the emerging technologies listed above, writes Jim Morrish, a founding partner at Transforma Insights.