Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
Skywatch tracker monitors public announcements of collaborations between telcos and satellite/non-terrestrial networks (NTN) players publicly announced since 1 January 2024. It also highlights where satellite operators are collaborating and competing with telcos.
This report presents quantitative analysis of the global demand for private networks over a five-year period. We explore the revenue trends across the value chain and provide insights into different deployment models and technologies across 15 verticals.
A global database of innovative telco consumer services beyond connectivity
Headlines suggest AI drives headcount reductions. This report examines the real impact that AI is having on employees and how telcos can help their workforce become part of AI transformations that benefit the business.
Orange Business is entering a more mature phase of its transformation. This report explores why its pragmatic approach to partnerships, trust and platform orchestration may prove to be a more significant differentiator than any individual product announcement.
At a show led by China’s telecom players, tokenisation, embodied AI and satellite connectivity sat at the centre of the agenda, each revealing how China’s AI and connectivity market is taking its own distinctive shape.
The industry has accepted the destination that is AI-driven autonomous networks. The challenge now is to build systems that operators can trust to make decisions across real networks. And to make every step create actual business benefits.
STL Partners’ analysts share their bite-sized expert opinions on the key topics in telecoms in the last quarter
Trends and insights from our database of quantum technology trials and deployments within telcos worldwide
How the NaaS world is preparing for agentic AI and its impact on internal operations, customer relationships, security and partnering across the ecosystem.
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.
How telcos can employ artificial intelligence to enrich their interactions with customers, while protecting their brands and reputations.
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.
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 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 Telco generative AI adoption tracker is a database of deployments of generative AI by telcos around the world. It also features STL’s assessment of key telcos’ progress with AI
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.
Our research focuses on how telcos and their partners can embrace industry disruption.
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