TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, take a look at recent developments in enterprise markets, including Telefónica Tech's acquisition of Incremental, Verizon's huge US Department of Defense contract win, BT's Division X and enterprise revenue growth in China. They also wonder why feature phones are making a return.

TM Forum's analysts Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay discuss trends at Mobile World Congress and consolidation in Europe as Orange and MasMovil enter exclusive talks to form a joint venture in Spain.

TM Forum’s chief analyst, Mark Newman, discusses Google’s $700M acquisition of a 1.28% stake in Bharti Airtel, which is part of a wider investment that could total $1bn, as well as its latest collaboration with Deutsche Telekom on messaging, sovereign networks and TV. 

Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum, takes a look at some of the latest news in the telecoms industry, including 5G deployment near US airports; what Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard means for communication service providers; NTT's collaboration with Airbus Space on Space RAN; and whether telcos are getting much more serious about creating greener businesses. 

Open RAN attracted a lot of attention from across the telecoms industry in 2021. Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum, discusses what helped spark the huge interest in Open RAN, as well as the current state of play and whether momentum will continue to build during 2022.

Adan Pope, CTO of Intrado, whose career spans leadership roles at Ciena, Ericsson and Telcordia, discusses what cloud-based systems and agile methodology mean for telecom leaders and how to get the best out of employees that span different generations and technology skills.

Adan Pope has spent more than 20 years as a chief technology officer in the telecoms industry. He drew on his experience of managing through periods of technological and business change to co-author the book 'Respect the Weeds', which looks at what makes digital transformation succeed – and fail. Adan talked to TM forum's Inform about how he perceives the industry today; the importance of principled leadership and how to enable employees to adapt and thrive amid transformation.

TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, discuss the implications of AWS' move into turnkey private networks, competition for the enterprise customer, and European telcos' call for big tech platforms to contribute to network costs and regulatory action on data spaces.

Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President, AI & Customer Experience at TM Forum, and Brian Smith, Accenture’s Global Comms & Media Innovation Lead, discuss why traditional telcos need to become techcos, strategies to bring about change, and what success might look like.

In this week’s QuickTalk podcast TM Forum’s CEO, Nik Willetts, and Steffen Roehn, Chairman of TM Forum and Expert Partner with Bain & Company, discuss the evolution of communication service providers' operational and business models; cross-sector partnerships; cloud native IT deployment and the pressing need for new skills within our industry.