Telecom has always been an industry that defines itself by what comes next. But right now, the market finds itself at a genuine crossroads, not just navigating one disruption, but several at once.
AI's promise of operational efficiency and new service delivery models looms large, but it's far from the only force reshaping the industry. Carriers and operators must simultaneously manage the immense capital demands of 5G rollouts and future 6G investment, mounting security pressures, and intensifying competition from hyperscalers encroaching on their patch with cloud and edge services.
To mark Mobile World Congress – the industry's defining annual gathering – the latest supplement from the team at SDxCentral looks at the telecom market beyond just AI: the revenue questions that remain unanswered, the agentic workhorses that might finally pay the bills, and the connectivity technologies quietly rewriting the rules of wireless backhaul.
Read now for articles covering:
- Whether telecom API opportunities are set to surge or die on arrival
- How carriers are moving from generative AI experiments to autonomous network operations
- The free space optics technology that could revolutionize wireless backhaul
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