API demand: aviation enters the radar
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The commercialisation of mobile network APIs has moved from early-stage exposure to wider distribution. Aggregators are playing a key role, targeting high-priority sectors. Understanding demand in different industries is important for operators, channel/distribution partners and developers. GSMA Intelligence’s Network API demand index report established a structured way to measure where API value is likely to concentrate across industries based on addressable revenue, demand signals and barriers.
The index now includes aviation as a dedicated vertical. This is timely, considering the growing interest from airports, airlines and low-altitude aviation ecosystems in programmable network capabilities. In aviation, demand is increasingly distributed across ground, airside and in-flight environments, making it one of the most strategically important, and potentially commercially valuable, API opportunities in the index.
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