Pre-packaged bundles for PC/Device-as-a-Service (PC/DaaS) are often not ideal because vendors and partners must customise each contract to individual business needs and budgets. However, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide are increasing their spending on DaaS by 12.2% year-on-year from 2022 to 2023. 

In this podcast, Bob Takacs (Research Director) and Li Lin (Senior Analyst) discuss the significant growth in PC/DaaS solutions.

The associated article can be found here.

In this podcast, Caroline Chappell (Partner) and Adaora Okeleke (Principal Analyst) discuss the need for transformed data environments and AI to support cloud native automation.

For further insights on this subject, watch our recent webinar covering the trends and challenges associated with the adoption of cloud-native networks.

Don’t forget to check out our curated resources on cloud-native network transformation and automation, here.

To drive scale and openness in Open RAN, stakeholders must strive to simplify integration while also putting the building blocks in place to drive maturity in both neutral and in-house systems integration.

In this podcast, Caroline Gabriel (Research Director) and James Kirby (Senior Analyst) discuss the role of system integration in Open RAN.

The associated article can be accessed here. And don’t forget to check out our curated resources on vRAN and Open RAN, here.

For enterprise-focused mobile operators, IoT is perhaps the most-crucial service for achieving revenue growth over the next 5 years.

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck (Partner) and Catherine Hammond (Research Director) discuss the enterprise revenue trends and the importance of IoT revenue to enterprise divisions of operators.

The associated article can be accessed here.

In this podcast, Caroline Chappell (Partner) and Daniel Beazer (Senior Analyst) discuss how cloud native networks need to run on edge native clouds and how this presents an opportunity for operators to generate new revenue streams.

For more content on this subject, watch our recent webinar covering the trends and challenges associated with the adoption of cloud-native networks.

Don’t forget to check out our curated resources on cloud-native network transformation and automation, here.

Challenger operators Digi, Free and Iliad have been more successful than their competitors at gaining subscribers in their respective countries.

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck (Partner) and Erik Ottosson (Associate Consultant) discuss mobile pricing strategies.

The associated article can be accessed here and the Telecoms Market Matrix is available here.

Catherine Hammond (Research Director) and Matt Small (Research Analyst) discuss how environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations have become increasingly important for businesses recently and a major component of the request for proposal (RFP) scorecard. 

The associated article can be accessed here. 

For more information on this subject, learn more from our case studies report and our insights into sustainability. 

The Orange-Telenet-VOO deals in Belgium show that European operators are following strategies for offering FMC services that go beyond the historical approach of owning fixed and mobile infrastructure.

In this podcast, Stefano Porto Bonacci (Senior Analyst) and Tom Rebbeck (Partner) discuss how operators are making greater use of wholesale connectivity services and taking advantage of the roll-out of open-access networks from infrastructure players.

The associated article can be accessed here. 

Read more in this report, Fixed–mobile convergence in Belgium: trends and forecasts 2023–2028

For more insights into fixed-mobile convergence, click here.

The merger is an attempt to gain some market share and mobile economies of scale to help to overcome the weaknesses of the mobile-only model.

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck (Partner) and Eulalia Marin (Principal Analyst) discuss the merger between Vodafone and Three UK.

The associated article can be accessed here.

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck, partner, and Ibraheem Kasujee, senior analyst for IoT Services and Private Networks, talk to Romil Bahl, president and CEO of KORE. 

Romil last appeared on the podcast in August 2021. 

Today's podcast looks at how things have progressed at KORE. Tom, Ibraheem and Romil discuss KORE’s recent acquisition of Twilio’s IoT unit, how the economy and 2G/3G shutdowns have affected KORE, and KORE’s share price since the public listing.

You can find the previous podcast with KORE here. You can also find a recent investor presentation outlining KORE’s recent results and strategy in further detail here.