At this year's (virtual) CES, industry leaders discussed how Covid-19 has impacted their operations. We also saw lots of tech innovation addressing the 'new normal', such as smart masks, disinfecting robots and touchless doorbells. Here we present our key CES takeaways for IoT, 5G and media & entertainment, and examine the implications for operators and vendors on the road ahead.

There were a record number of visitors to MWC Barcelona 2019. The event once again provided a platform for the industry to unveil a range of new products and initiatives. The GSMA Intelligence team was in Barcelona to make sense of all the latest developments. In this in-depth review, we have organised our analysis around the key themes at the show: new devices, 5G, IoT, content and media, and enabling technology (blockchain, edge).

To help navigate the year ahead, we have released a series of reports that highlight the key trends to watch in 2025 and the implications for ecosystem players. The analysis covers five key areas: 5G and network transformation; spectrum; IoT and the wider enterprise market; the digital consumer; and fixed and pay-TV markets.

Throughout 2024, we have analysed important developments and trends spanning all areas of the telecoms industry and wider digital ecosystem. As the industry will continue to evolve in 2025, how will our Research Themes change? This document outlines the 11 themes set to shape the industry and drive our 2025 Research Agenda.

MWC Shanghai 2024 attracted nearly 40,000 attendees and 6,500 companies. GSMA Intelligence's engagement across the event spanned summits, sessions and meetings with companies. A key theme across these was the urgency around monetising 5G infrastructure and how that can be done, rather than talking about technology alone.

This report examines operators' engagement at MWC 2024, highlighting their announcements and innovations, strategy updates and messaging. We show our findings for 18 major operators across 12 areas of focus.

MWC Barcelona 2024 attracted over 2,700 exhibitors, including telecoms operators, vendors and firms from across the broader technology ecosystem. GSMA Intelligence looks beneath the surface to identify what was unexpected, how developments relate to big-picture trends and what it all means for the wider TMT industry.

This is a preliminary overview of the GSMA Intelligence dataset for smartphone usage by operating system (OS). Data is provided at the global level and for seven regions around the world.

Globally, 5G adoption will scale from 1 billion mobile connections in 2022 to 1.5 billion in 2023, which is significant progress - but is 5G helping drive growth of average revenue per user (ARPU)? In this report, we attempt to answer the question, comparing 5G adoption and ARPU trends in leading 5G markets.

MWC21 Barcelona saw many important announcements across all the themes and topics shaping the future of the industry. This report goes beyond the headlines to provide an insightful view of the event from an analyst perspective, examining what took centre stage and reflecting on the expected and unexpected developments. Importantly, it provides a view on why these matter, and what they mean for the industry.

The onset of the 5G era presents a new opportunity for how RCS messaging can be enhanced and repositioned in the eyes of consumers and brands. For business verticals in particular, 5G messaging offers incremental revenues for operators and brands through engagement and outcomes-based pricing, backed by scale, interactivity and security.

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 which topics telecoms operators focused on at MWC Barcelona 2025.

The definitive guide to the biggest shifts shaping mobile, AI and telecoms. How will AI reshape telecoms? What’s next for 5G, satellites and enterprise networks?

Over the past two years, GSMA Intelligence has investigated the value of mmWave spectrum in great depth, with a focus on cost savings from a network efficiency perspective. However, there could also be a revenue opportunity for operators if consumers are willing to pay more for new or improved services. This was the main reason for developing a series of three reports investigating how consumers view the value of mmWave to improve 5G services. This final report quantifies the extent to which consumers are willing to pay to obtain the experiences they really want from mmWave 5G.

Building on the research delivered in 2022, this document outlines the key industry themes set to shape the industry and drive the GSMA Intelligence research agenda in 2023. The 2023 research themes address the key trends and questions shaping the evolution of the telecoms ecosystem in 2023 and beyond, and what they mean for players across the industry. The themes set the direction of our 2023 research agenda and will be addressed throughout the year by means of reports, blogs, webinars, presentations, infographics and briefings with clients.

How do consumers view the value of mmWave in support of 5G. What problems does it solve? How much do consumers value it? This report forms part of a series, in collaboration with Qualcomm, to better understand the mmWave value proposition for consumers. The series begins with the pain points mmWave can address.

More than 61,000 attendees from almost 200 countries convened in-person to reconnect with industry partners and set their business agendas for 2022 and beyond. In this report, GSMA Intelligence examines the key announcements and innovations that took centre stage at MWC22, and what they mean for the industry.

Building on content published in 2020, this document outlines the key research themes GSMA Intelligence will focus on in 2021. Our 2021 research themes address the key trends and questions shaping the evolution of the telecoms industry in 2021 and beyond, and what they mean for players across the ecosystem. These themes set the direction of our Research Agenda and will be addressed throughout the year by means of reports, blogs, webinars, presentations, infographics and briefings with our clients.

The telecoms sector has undergone significant structural change in the last five years, including changes to network ownership models (from tower sell-offs and virtualisation), media convergence, and the push to sell 5G and IoT products into enterprise verticals. Covid-19 has introduced new considerations and further altered the existing outlook - in general, it has shifted the balance of risks towards factors that are evident but whose potential impacts are not fully understood (the so-called 'known unknowns').

In this edition of the Radar, the first of 2020, we examine possible sources of disruption for the year ahead. We consider the renewed satellite market and the potential of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites; question whether the era of tech firms – and so-called tech exceptionalism – is coming to an end; explore the vast implications of digitisation in healthcare; and observe the possible shift to cloud in gaming.