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.

Analysis of the latest news from Orange; Nokia's industrial edge solution, tower asset sales, data governance and partnering.

TM Forum's Chief Analyst, Mark Newman, and Principal Analyst, Dean Ramsay, delve into the stories behind the recent headlines in our new podcast series Two weeks in telecoms.