
Q-Beat: Telco quantum deployment tracker
Insights from our database that tracks deployments of quantum technology within telcos worldwide
Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
Insights from our database that tracks deployments of quantum technology within telcos worldwide
DTW Ignite 2025 showed a telco industry that is truly embracing AI and trying to use it as a platform for accelerated transformation. We hope it succeeds.
The data centre industry stands at an inflection point: poised for rapid AI-driven growth, but only if it can navigate key challenges.
To successfully commercialise APIs, the telecom industry must reach new customers – application developers – and sell significantly different services than traditional voice and data. We outline how telcos can meet developers where they are and identify strategies for operators to maximise their share of value creation from API capabilities.
As real-time, AI-driven workloads scale, cloud-native systems are falling short at the edge. This report explores why edge-native platforms that are lightweight, modular and purpose-built for decentralised environments are emerging as the architectural foundation for the next generation of intelligent, autonomous systems.
This research note presents STL Partners’ forecast for the number of active private network sites over a 7-year period. It details site numbers across seven regions and acts as a complement to our Private network market forecast 2024–2030.
Telcos leading the development of mobile network APIs must set strategies now to scale the market beyond the first wave of customers and use cases. We explore three potential pathways for growth: courting new customers, creating new capabilities and a combination of both.
The Telco generative AI adoption tracker is a database of announcements, trials and deployments of generative AI within telcos around the world. It also includes a list of generative AI solutions targeted at telcos.
As CSPs transition into the Coordination Age, they face critical challenges in adopting cloud-native architectures and transforming operational models to meet the demands of enhanced connectivity and resource optimisation. This report provides practical strategies to navigate these challenges, with a focus on simplifying RAN transformation, enabling agility and unlocking new opportunities for innovation and growth.
As telcos team up to expand into new markets, what are the key lessons from existing joint ventures?
Recently, several telcos made the news with AI factory initiatives. We outline the reasons and the approaches to these investments.
This report presents quantitative analysis of the global demand for private networks over a 7-year period. We explore the revenue trends across the value chain and provide insights into different deployment models and technologies across 14 verticals.
No one can foresee how and when import tariffs will stabilise – but some
long-term implications are starting to arise.
Mobile operators have used intelligence in their networks and OSS for a while. What has changed recently is how new techniques (e.g., generative AI and/or agentic AI) can be applied, often on top of traditional methods, to accelerate the use of AI in the network domain and move telcos along their journey to higher levels of network autonomy. This forecast estimates the value for vendors of selling AI-enabled solutions to mobile operators to support their network and OSS processes.
Most large-scale deployments of virtualised RAN (vRAN) at Tier 1 telcos are currently based on single-vendor architecture. But operators are deploying vRAN in innovative ways that aim to preserve many open RAN benefits. This report looks at the current status of vRAN and open RAN deployments as well as the increasing awareness of the importance of deploying cloud-native RAN across multiple containers-as-a-service (CaaS) layers.
Consumers need protection from fast-evolving cyber threats. Telcos are in a position to deliver credible solutions to this attractive market, building both increased consumer loyalty and new revenue streams.
Taken in isolation, investment in 5G has thus far failed to deliver on its promises – both technically and commercially. In this combined market forecast for edge computing, private networks and telecom APIs until 2030, we identify how telcos can leverage all their assets to help deliver on the original ambitions of 5G.
Our research focuses on how telcos and their partners can embrace industry disruption.
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