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STL Partners updated (April 2022) its Telco Cloud Deployment Tracker with a more granular focus on Open RAN tracking the on-going shift towards disaggregation across vendor ecosystems. Overall, it is still very early days with open RAN and vRAN, with 33 deployments in total, but we expect this to accelerate …
Video analytics is the processing and analysis of visual data (images or videos). When artificial intelligence is used to extract information from the data, it is referred to as intelligent video analytics or computer vision, although video analytics is often still used as a shorthand. Video analytics stands out as a huge …
Private network operators need to be able to deploy, manage and optimise their operations more efficiently if they want to meet customer expectations and scale quickly. Operators will rely on AI and service automation to monitor the network closely and get a better understanding of how different components react during …
SK Telecom Stand at MWC 2022 – STL Partners GSMA’s Mobile World Congress – MWC 2022 revealed a subtle but significant shift taking place in the telco industry, showing how the market’s need is changing to ‘connecting technologies’ rather than ‘connectivity’. This has deep implications for the industry and telcos …
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is one of four major shifts that will have an impact on the Future of Work at telcos (others include societal and culture change, business environment change and pandemic related change) The term Fourth Industrial Revolution is often used interchangeably with the technologies involved in Industry 4.0. However, …
For telcos, live events present specific challenges and opportunities. Providing millions of people with high quality images and audio simultaneously can soak up large amounts of bandwidth on networks, forcing telcos to invest in additional capacity. Yet, it should be feasible to make a return on that investment: live events …
In 2018, the environmental team started considering sustainability from a finance perspective, and the finance team started to incorporate ESG targets. Telefónica saw the opportunity to enlarge its investor base, explore opportunities within sustainable financing, and to start conversations with its investors that had not happened before. After developing its …
VNFs on public cloud: Opportunity, not threat There have been very few significant deployments of VNFs on the public cloud, even by leading telco advocates of virtualisation and cloud-native. STL Partners recently outlined extent to which telco network functions (VNFs and CNFs) are being deployed on public cloud, and particularly …
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the severity of the digital divide globally, which cannot be solved by large telecoms operators alone. STL Partners’ research into regional ISPs demonstrates the role they can play.
AWS launched its private networks service to simplify the deployment for enterprise customers. This move further disrupts telcos’ position as the main cellular connectivity providers and lowers the entry barriers for bitstarz app emergent players. But to what extent can AWS service support the diverse enterprise requirements and compete with telcos …
While the telcos cited so far have demonstrated progressive learning practices, they are not equally progressive in all areas, or across the whole organisation. We’ve assessed the position of six telcos – Elisa, Spark, Telenor, TELUS Digital, Telia and Deutsche Telekom – on seven dimensions: The prominence of learning in …
Thanks to the “democratisation” of shared spectrum, virtualised networks, fibre and cloud – plus the demands of industry, government and local communities – a plethora of bitstarz app service providers are emerging in the 5G-era. New service provider types Source: STL Partners In a recent report, New telcos: A field guide, …
The seven stakeholder groups This report identifies seven stakeholder groups, and the ideal relationships within each group that lead to the best conditions for driving growth. Figure 1: An ideal growth company can demonstrate these relationships with their stakeholders Management To be successful, we believe that management needs to exhibit …
This January 2022, STL Partners has updated its 2020 report A3 for telcos: Mapping the financial value, published in May 2020, which estimated the financial value of A3 (analytics, artificial intelligence and automation) through bottom up analysis of potential capex/opex savings or revenue uplift from integrating A3 into 150+ processes …
5G promises to enable bitstarz app business models. CSPs will need to evolve their underlying systems, to maximise their monetisation potential.
Telecoms operators want to build their network edges where there is demand. In other words, where there is a sufficient number of end-users or customers that will benefit from the capabilities that come with edge. In general, the approach has been to create a plan for a network of edge …
As part of our study IoT security: The foundation for growth beyond connectivity, we looked at the IoT security services of 12 MNOs to see what they are doing to address enterprise IoT security needs beyond that of secure connectivity. The architecture stack for an IoT solution can be simplified …
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