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GSMA Intelligence's Chart of the Month is a visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. From the shape and size of markets to trends in consumer behaviour, we aim to provide food for thought through informative visuals designed to bring colour and clarity to complex issues facing the industry. This edition looks at how much more enterprises are willing to pay for 6G over other network technologies.

With a 33% rise in international visitors this year, MWC Shanghai speaks to China’s influence and gravitational pull on the regional Asian tech economy and reciprocal demand from buyers to see and be seen on the MWC stage in an already busy event calendar. The analysis here highlights the key takeaways and implications from the meetings, summits and announcements at the event.

Digital transformation of enterprises is accelerating across all vertical sectors, with next-generation connectivity being an important driver and enabler and a top area of investment. GSMA Intelligence surveyed 5,320 enterprises across 32 countries and 10 vertical sectors to gain relevant insights into their digital transformation across a range of technologies. This report analyses the key findings and implications for 5G and/or private networks technologies.

It is well understood that running multiple network generations is a burden on operators. Add to that a future focus on diverse technology evolutions and the problem could be exponentially worse, even if some are still years away. While this might have been a theoretical concern in the past, it's likely to come to the fore in 2023 as 5G standalone (SA), 5G-Advanced and 6G all clamour for attention.

This report is the second in a two-part series from GSMA Intelligence in partnership with Microsoft on the sustainable design and operation of telecoms networks in the 5G era. It explores the energy implications of a broad shift in computing workloads to the cloud and, in the context of enterprise digitisation, edge computing using both 5G and localised datacentres.

In this snapshot, GSMA Intelligence examines the key announcements and innovations in 5G and 6G at MWC22, and what they mean for the industry. For the full analysis of topics covered at MWC22, see "MWC22 Barcelona: insights beyond the headlines".

If operators are planning for 6G to make a commercial appearance sometime around 2030 but recognise that 5G improvements will be realised before then, it stands to reason that a mid-point advancement is coming. With an expected arrival in 2025, that advancement is 5G-Advanced. What 5G-Advanced will deliver will reflect operator expectations of network demands in the medium term, as well as the mobile network innovations and messaging we can expect to hear about over the next few years.