From post-proof of concept use cases of generative AI and adoption rates of fixed wireless access to missed ROI opportunities of 5G and the vision of 6G, in this episode of “TBR Talks” Telecom Principal Analyst Chris Antlitz joins Patrick to highlight his top takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2025. Chris considers the implications for the global telecom market and how the market must change. Additionally, he discusses the foundational challenges of global telecom operators and traditional telecom vendors, where governments must interview, and what role hyperscalers will play.

Senior Analyst John Caucis and Analyst James Wichert, of TBR’s U.S. Public Sector Professional Services research team, share key challenges our clients in the space — including four of the top six federal systems integrators — and their partners face amid uncertainty in funding as the Trump Administration implements funding reviews and contract cancellations stemming from the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

TBR Principal Analyst Chris Antlitz dives deep into the stark reality of 6G rollout and the implications of the technology for telecom operators and vendors as well as other over-the-top data and service providers. Additionally, Chris discusses the implications of these investments for consumers, enterprises, governments and IT vendors.

TBR Principal Analyst Bozhidar Hristov and TBR Analyst Alex Demeule share insights into the partnerships between cloud vendors and software vendors as well as with their systems integrator partners, including the increase in collaboration to deliver modernization, cloud migration and GenAI solutions to the world’s leading enterprises. Alliance highlights in this episode include Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and Accenture

TBR Talks host Patrick Heffernan gives his unique perspective on how Saudi Arabia may be changing the way in which it operates with global firms.

Astadia CEO Scott Silk joins Patrick for a discussion on cloud migration and the mainframe modernization needs of enterprises globally.

SoftwareOne Global Head of Industry Analyst Relations Dr. Jochen Wolf joins TBR for a discussion on developing a successful career in analyst relations and building an effective analyst relations team

Securing recompetes and maximizing execution on existing bookings are driving leading federal systems integrators (FSIs) ManTech and Peraton to success. From the challenges of private equity involvement to bidding on key government technology investments, TBR Senior Analyst James Wichert joins Patrick to discusses key trends leading into 2025.     Listen and learn with TBR […]

In this episode of TBR Talks, Principal Analyst Chris Antlitz details how 6G will be rolled out in light of 5G having not delivered commercialization successes to date. Chris also reviews takeaways from the recent 6G Summit hosted by Nokia and looks at energy and sustainability, funding and commercialization challenges as well as the still […]