Building on the foundation of the Digital Societies series, this report marks the inaugural edition of the Digital Nations series. It explores the aspiration of governments in Asia Pacific to leverage digital technologies as a means to achieve sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic growth, based on the development of five key components of a digital nation: infrastructure, innovation, data governance, security and people.

Insight Highlights offer an opportunity to view some of the premium research and data offered by GSMA Intelligence to subscribers. This edition focuses on the smartphone market, examining OEM market shares and the evolution of consumer behaviour, leveraging data from GSMA Intelligence's OEMs in Focus: Smartphone Market Shares Dashboard and the GSMA Intelligence Consumers in Focus Survey December 2023.

Fixed and pay-TV markets continue to evolve around the world, with M&A, competition (including from OTT players) and technology investments being major drivers. This quarterly series outlines the latest market developments and the key trends to watch, charting the period to 2030.

This report tracks data and developments from telcos and satellite companies in pursuit of monetisation in the consumer, B2B and government sectors.

IBC 2024 recently took place in Amsterdam. Among the developments and trends seen at the show were content monetisation through enhanced visibility and advertising; cost reduction through increased efficiency and combating piracy; and the growing use of 5G in broadcasting.

The digital needs of industry, businesses and consumers have a clear impact on spectrum management considerations. To assist policymakers in their decision-making for the evolution of mobile spectrum, including the 6 GHz band, this report provides new evidence on data traffic growth, the utilisation of mobile and Wi-Fi in different scenarios and frequency bands, and how efficiently mobile and Wi-Fi technologies are currently utilising their existing spectrum.

As the convergence of financial services and mobile technology keeps growing, financial services companies are increasingly working with operators to accelerate digital transformation, including leveraging industry-wide activities that bring the ecosystem together. This report looks at current and future developments of financial services across multiple areas, leveraging insights from our new global operator survey.

GSMA Intelligence surveyed operators across more than 60 countries to get relevant insights into how they are working with financial services companies, how they are supporting the digital transformation of financial services, how enterprises can benefit from it and the outlook for growth.

This quarterly series leverages the GSMA Intelligence Spectrum Navigator tool to identify key trends and insights. The report outlines the latest important developments in the spectrum world and the key trends to watch going forward.

This Insight Spotlight is the third part of a series - called 5G Next - to help better understand the promising 5G technology innovations shaping mobile networks. This edition explores the future of antennas and the potential impact of the digitalisation of antennas on operator finances and service quality.

AI was everywhere at IFA 2024, dominating company showcases of consumer devices and appliances. The show also saw notable developments across sustainability, smart homes, smartphones, wearables and gaming. IFA also served as a reminder of the challenges in the AI era, including consumer concerns around data privacy and the issue of security.

Private 5G is growing at an impressive rate as enterprises are increasingly engaging ecosystem players, including telcos and systems integrators, to set up private wireless networks. Industry attention is increasingly focused on filling the gaps in the private wireless proposition, and in this sense, this is also a maturing industry segment. In 2024, the private network opportunity will become increasingly attractive while momentum continues to build, with multiple vendors further increasing their investments. But the value points are shifting away from radios and mobile cores, which are now table stakes, towards the distributed edge and seamless orchestration of workloads across enterprise IT/OT environments.

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. In this edition, we look at the changing mix of pay-TV subscribers amid increased levels of cord-cutting.

AI is a transformative technology, but it is important to look beyond the hype and identify the parts of the innovation cycle that matter most. How do they translate into commercial activity and possible changes in corporate strategy?

For 5G monetisation, the primary challenge is to drive a higher price premium for tariffs linked to content or speed, with consumers being willing to pay and sustain this level of payment over time. This comes down to people feeling 5G delivers something new or better than what is possible using an existing 4G service. This analysis shows that FWA and speed-linked tariffs are the best means of doing that, with content-linked offers a more market-specific play.

OEM smartphone market shares have been shifting in recent years due to multiple factors. As smartphone sales return to growth, getting granular insights into competitive dynamics, including analysing the leaders, followers and challengers, is key to capitalise on sales recovery, especially at regional and country levels.

This dashboard provides granular data on OEM smartphone market shares, highlighting leaders, followers and challengers in each country and region. It is a valuable asset not only for OEMs looking to adjust their growth strategies and targets, but also for other players whose businesses heavily rely on smartphone dynamics, including operators and providers of digital services.

Manufacturing, production and industrial companies are increasingly working with operators to accelerate their digital transformation, including leveraging industry-wide activities that bring the ecosystem together. While using connectivity services is an established practice, a growing number of companies are benefiting from services beyond connectivity offered by operators. This reports looks at current and future developments across multiple areas, leveraging insights from our new global operator survey.

GSMA Intelligence surveyed operators across more than 50 countries to get relevant insights into how they are supporting the digital transformation of manufacturing, production and industrial sectors, how enterprises can benefit from it and the outlook for growth. This dashboard presents the full survey data.

Insight Highlights offer an opportunity to view some of the premium research and data offered by GSMA Intelligence to subscribers. This edition focuses on the pay-TV market, examining consumer behaviour and the outlook for adoption. It leverages GSMA Intelligence's global forecast for pay TV, and the Pay-TV and Video Services User Behaviour Dashboard.