The telecoms industry and wider digital ecosystem are evolving at an unprecedented pace, with new technologies and market dynamics reshaping the landscape daily. In this fast-moving market, understanding key trends is essential to staying competitive and capturing emerging opportunities.

Our 2025 Research Themes focus on three critical areas driving advancements and innovation: technology, monetisation, and impact. Across these areas, the themes aim to explore the key trends and address pressing questions shaping the digital landscape, highlighting their implications for stakeholders. In this complimentary webinar, our experts Peter Jarich and Pablo Iacopino discussed 2025 topics shaping the industry and driving our focus:

• 5G-Advanced and its role in unlocking new use cases.
• The transformational impact of AI in telecoms and beyond.
• The outlook for new technologies such as Network APIs, Open RAN, NTNs and eSIM.
• The rise of Digital Industries and the associated opportunity.
• The evolution of consumer technology and its impact on telcos.
• Monetisation paths for B2C and B2B

Sustainability and energy efficiency recently became a fundamental part of network development and network operations and is expected to remain in constant consideration in the future. However, efficiency remains difficult to quantify, measure and benchmark effectively.

The complexity of reorienting network strategy around sustainability means a clear framework is key for prioritising when and where actions should be taken

This datapoint is from Emanuel Kolta, Lead Research Analyst at GSMA Intelligence, exploring green network evolution among 16 different elements.

Check out our latest report True north: a guide to green network evolution which includes a framework and a set of KPIs offering telecoms operators and their suppliers a guide to decision-making at https://data.gsmaintelligence.com/research/research/research-2024/true-north-a-guide-to-green-network-evolution