NaaS for AI: Takeaways from Mplify Lisbon
How the NaaS world is preparing for agentic AI and its impact on internal operations, customer relationships, security and partnering across the ecosystem.
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Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
AI glasses: Is extended reality becoming real?
AI is driving the rebranding of smart glasses, but more importantly, it will drive the use cases that will see adoption of this personal device category finally take off.
Embracing AI without alienating customers
How telcos can employ artificial intelligence to enrich their interactions with customers, while protecting their brands and reputations.
Eight cybersecurity trends and their relevance for telcos
Infosecurity Europe is a barometer for the key topics and selling points in the cybersecurity industry. But telco representation at the event is low – a missed opportunity to build awareness of their role in this lucrative market.
Edge computing market sizing forecast: Fifth release
This report presents the main findings of our latest quantitative research on global demand for edge computing services through to 2030. In this forecast, we analyse demand for on-premises, network and regional edge infrastructure across 21 use cases and 16 industry verticals. This edition also examines key adoption trends emerging from real-world deployments and highlights pricing dynamics observed across the vendor ecosystem.
Private networks: Winning partnership and GTM strategies
Private networks are growing — but the market is becoming harder to read and harder to win. The latest update of STL Partners’ Private networks deployment tracks records publicly announced private network, up to May 2026.
The retrofitting roadmap: An evolution of liquid cooling
Rising demand for AI and HPC is accelerating the shift towards liquid cooling, but greenfield capacity cannot always keep pace. This report, kindly sponsored by Airedale, examines when retrofitting existing data centres makes strategic sense and how operators can move from assessment to execution.
Telcos’ sovereignty play
The various aspects of digital sovereignty and how telcos capitalise on the early demand for it
Skywatch telescope: Telco offerings in satellite connectivity
Skywatch telescope offers deep-dive coverage of telcos’ live satellite services, offering insights into how telcos are commercialising these offerings.
Telco as a platform index
As telcos move beyond connectivity, platform strategies are becoming a key route to growth. This report looks at how operators are approaching the shift, and the underlying capabilities and organisational traits that are shaping success across the industry.
The race to own liquid cooling for data centres
Liquid cooling is creating a new M&A battleground in data centres, where different buyer groups are pursuing distinct acquisition strategies to control an increasingly critical part of the infrastructure stack.
Network API pilots to profit: A commercial playbook for Quality on Demand
As the bottleneck shifts from commitment to commercial execution, telcos need an API-specific playbook not a one-size-fits-all approach. Drawing on extensive demand-side research, this series of reports delivers actionable guidance on pricing logic, charging models and GTM channel strategies for emerging APIs. This report focuses on Quality on Demand (QoD).
Scale, sovereignty and the promise of one B2B – Deutsche Telekom analyst day
Telekom used its B2B analyst day on 28 April 2026 to showcase a strategy that is increasingly coherent and founded on a solid base.
AI in telecoms networks: The state of play in 2026
In the run-up to FutureNet World London, we conducted a survey with telcos, vendors and analysts to assess the degree of adoption of AI in telcos’ operations and the impact of these capabilities in terms of cost savings and new service launch and revenue. Here we share the results.
How telcos generate AI revenue
How telcos are building revenue from AI-centric solutions for consumers, enterprises and the public sector.
Future Skills Tracker 2026
Insights from our Future skills tracker tool show that telcos remain behind technology companies (techcos) in the penetration of the key role types that would enable them to compete and add value like technology companies. The tracker provides direction on where telcos should learn from techcos and build capabilities to increase operational efficiency and enable new revenue streams going forward.
Edge Computing Ecosystem Tool
The Edge Computing Ecosystem Tool helps organisations navigate and expand their network of partners, customers and suppliers in the edge computing market.
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