The COP27 climate summit held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022 brought world leaders together once again to decide on action to tackle the climate emergency. However, as shown in Analysys Mason’s latest consumer survey, consumer interest in sustainability has temporarily plateaued against the backdrop of greater energy and financial instability. 

Martin Scott (Principal Analyst) and Maria Tunberg (Principal) discuss some of the initiatives that operators have put in place to help realise their own and their customers’ aspirations for greater sustainability.

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SASE solutions bring together SD-WAN with cloud security to form an integrated service. The combined SD-WAN and cloud security markets will generate over USD110 billion in revenue by 2027; SASE will account for 15% of this. 

Catherine Hammond (Principal Analyst) and Matt Small (Research Analyst) discuss recent SASE and SD-WAN trends and forecasts. 

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The biggest issue for telecoms operators in 2023 will be coping with inflation and particularly rising energy costs. After a decade of low inflation and low interest rates, telecoms operators, like other businesses face the problem of managing rising costs and uncertainty about how much they can increase their own prices to cope. 

Larry Goldman (Chief Analyst) and Tom Rebbeck (Partner) discuss our 10 most-compelling predictions for the telecoms, media and technology sector in 2023. 

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The future of spectrum will require long-term investment and long-term decision processes, the economics of which are not always clear.

Janette Stewart (Partner) and Larry Goldman (Chief Analyst) discuss recent spectrum shifts in North America and how that relates to future 5G and 6G spectrum policy.

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Operator digital advertising revenue amounts to 2.4% of total mobile service revenue as of 2022.

Inigo Barker (Senior Analyst) and Tom Rebbeck (Partner) discuss the structural changes to the digital advertising market that have put operators in a stronger position to capitalise on their first-party user data assets and share in the growth of the market.

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SMBs are no longer focusing on just surviving the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they are now ‘getting back to business’ while dealing with rising interest rates, inflation, supply chain disruptions, geopolitical uncertainties and labour shortages.

In this podcast, Larry Goldman (Chief Analyst) and Bob Takacs (Research Director) discuss our latest release of the Analysys Mason Technology Forecaster and associated report on SMB spending priorities, and opportunities for telecoms operators and IT vendors. 

To learn more about the Analysys Mason Technology Forecaster and to download the associated report, click here. 

In this podcast, Chief Analyst Larry Goldman interviews Principal Analyst Martin Scott about the several announcements that were made at Meta Connect 2022. Meta’s announcements were well-aligned with Analysys Mason’s metaverse framework, but there were notable absences in areas where communications service providers can take the lead.

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Larry Goldman (Chief Analyst) and Dr. Franck Chevalier (co-head of technology consulting) talk about continuing growth in the volume of data traffic and the need for low latency leading operators to deploy hollow-core fibre networks. 

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Patrick Kidney (partner) and Larry Goldman (chief analyst) talk about how rural broadband opens up opportunities for citizens, governments, operators and suppliers.

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In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck (Partner) and Catherine Hammond (Principal Analyst) discuss the different options for operators to provide PSTN voice for Microsoft Teams and why this is important.

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