In Africa, the 5G FWA opportunity is substantial, considering the addressable market for household broadband and the importance of the MSME sector to the region's GDP. Despite issues with device costs and technical hurdles, 5G FWA holds significant potential if the remaining challenges can be addressed collaboratively by stakeholders.

Indonesia is among the largest and fastest-growing digital economies in Asia-Pacific. While the government's digital roadmap for 2021-2024 recognises ICT infrastructure as a key enabler of digital transformation, realising this vision will only be possible if the country's operators have access to the right amount and type of affordable spectrum.

Smart utilities have been a prime area for IoT, including applications such as smart metering. The recent acceleration in deployments and adoption of cellular-based IoT, notably NB-IoT, is making smart utilities an even more attractive opportunity for operators.

Sub-Saharan Africa is seeing growing momentum behind 5G, with 27 operators in 16 markets offering commercial 5G services in the region as of September 2023. FWA is also emerging as an important use case. This spotlight examines the implications ahead for the ecosystem as 5G expands its reach and role in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Open RAN is a network strategy with growing appeal, but still only adopted by a small proportion of operators and mostly on a small scale. Despite this, there is a surprisingly strong vote of confidence in open RAN's power efficiency. Little has been reported in the way of actual results, so is this confidence justified?

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Sub-Saharan Africa for Q2 2023.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in North America for Q2 2023.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in the Middle East and North Africa for Q2 2023.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Latin America for Q2 2023.

This report is the final of a three-part series on the technological and business implications of sustainability in the telecoms industry. The focus of this report is reputation and external relations, and how perceptions among all touchpoints for telecoms operators are realigning towards a green set of priorities.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Greater China for Q2 2023.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Europe for Q2 2023.

The Region in Focus series provides an essential quarterly briefing on industry developments, market insights and country KPIs for mobile markets around the world. This edition outlines the key market trends and developments in Asia Pacific for Q2 2023.

Advanced forms of artificial intelligence such as generative AI are increasingly being used in digital consumer services across a range of verticals to optimise processes and innovate with services. For the end user, the impact is new or improved functionality, a more personalised service experience, better service accessibility and more context-aware services.

GSMA Intelligence's Chart of the Month is a visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. In this edition, we examine expectations among operators of the revenue split for private 5G by 2025, between connectivity, IoT, professional services, security, cloud and spectrum management.

Momentum in telco-satellite convergence has continued in 2023. This research explores the competitive landscape, and potential revenue uplift available to telcos and satellite operators. It also examines the resurgence of D2D, and potential standards pathways (and risks) for non-terrestrial networks as part of 3GPP.

Monitoring 5G B2B developments in the Chinese ecosystem provides useful indicators that global mobile operators can use in their enterprise 5G strategies. However, there are important factors that such operators need to bear in mind if using China as a benchmark, which we explore in this report.

To understand the performance of universal service funds (USFs) in Africa, the GSMA conducted an extensive study. This included a survey of stakeholders, including USF authorities, government ministries and service providers. The results highlight structural and operational challenges requiring urgent attention from policymakers and USF authorities.

Assigning radio spectrum to those who can make the most efficient use of it is crucial to maximise the socioeconomic benefits derived from digital services and infrastructure. In Latin America, mobile connectivity remains the foremost form of internet connectivity, particularly because for many it is the only form of connectivity. However, to provide mobile internet services, operators need access to spectrum licences.

This study is the first to establish a causal link between the adoption of digital financial services and long-term economic growth. It shows that mobile money had a positive and significant impact on GDP growth between 2013 and 2022.