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Operator strategies continue to evolve in the digital era as the telecoms industry seeks to capture new growth opportunities in the consumer and enterprise markets. GSMA Intelligence's operator case studies provide a concise and consistent way to shine a light on and analyse operators' strategies and business models, as well as how they are launching new services. This edition highlights Telefonica's smart home service focused on security, which is part of its digital services push.

The security threat landscape across telecoms and the broader technology industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. This report, focused on Europe, is the last in a five-part series. The series aims to evaluate the threat landscape for telecoms operators; track where and why things have changed in the threat landscape for better or worse; discuss innovation and best practice in solutions to mitigate or repel threats; and examine potential future scenarios and how to get ahead of the curve.

The security threat landscape across telecoms and the broader technology industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. This report series aims to evaluate the threat landscape for telecoms operators; track where and why things have changed in the threat landscape for better or worse; discuss innovation and best practice in solutions to mitigate or repel threats; and examine potential future scenarios and how to get ahead of the curve.

The security threat landscape across telecoms and the broader technology industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. This is the third report in a five-part series. The series aims to evaluate the threat landscape for telecoms operators; track where and why things have changed in the threat landscape for better or worse; discuss innovation and best practice in solutions to mitigate or repel threats; and examine potential future scenarios and how to get ahead of the curve.

The security threat landscape across telecoms and the broader technology industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. This is the second in a five-part series on security innovations in the telecoms industry. This edition focuses on Northern Africa.

The security threat landscape across telecoms and the broader technology industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace. This is the first report in a five-part series on security innovations. The series aims to evaluate the threat landscape for telecoms operators; track where and why things have changed in the threat landscape for better or worse; discuss innovation and best practice in solutions to mitigate or repel threats; and examine potential future scenarios and how to get ahead of the curve.

New tech and market developments promise to help accelerate eSIM adoption. In this context, we surveyed 100 operators globally in December 2023 to understand their views on three main areas of eSIM: eSIM benefits for enterprise customers; demands for eSIM-enabled solutions from industry verticals; and eSIM market share by 2030.

GSMA Intelligence's Chart of the Month is a visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. From the shape and size of markets to trends in consumer behaviour, we aim to provide food for thought through informative visuals designed to bring colour and clarity to complex issues facing the industry. In this edition, we look at the increasing importance of security as a part of operators' enterprise strategies.

Operator strategies continue to evolve in the digital era as the telecoms industry seeks to capture new growth opportunities in the consumer and enterprise markets. Assessing innovation and achievements is more important than ever before. GSMA Intelligence's operator case studies provide a concise and consistent way to shine a light on and analyse operators' strategies and business models, as well as how they are launching new services. In this edition, we examine the launch of Bharti Airtel's new home surveillance solution, Xsafe, against the backdrop of growing demand for smart home security in India.

Each year, GSMA Intelligence surveys operators across the globe to understand their network transformation priorities and plans. The survey focuses on strategic and technology priorities. Here we examine how the two priorities of open RAN and security are linked, assess operators' views and concerns around them, and highlight what they should be worried about.

GSMA Intelligence's Chart of the Month is a visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. From the shape and size of markets to trends in consumer behaviour, we aim to provide food for thought through informative visuals designed to bring colour and clarity to complex issues facing the industry. In this edition, we look at how operators rank their operational priorities in terms of achieving their long-term enterprise revenue goals.

The combination of cloud, data and IoT security threats means security risks are greater in the 5G era. A key challenge for operators offering 5G-based services is ensuring that they have sufficient knowledge or tools to tackle upcoming security vulnerabilities. Having a strategy for building up security credentials will be crucial in supporting these plans.

We surveyed operators to see which services experienced the strongest growth in demand from enterprises due to Covid-19. While 2020 firmly put cloud computing on the roadmap for enterprises, security was the area of biggest growth in this latest survey. We examine the implications of this security priority for operators' plans and portfolios.

Enterprises continue to deem security among the top three challenges to IoT adoption (along with integration with legacy systems and cost), according to our Enterprise in Focus Survey. The fragmentation of the IoT ecosystem makes securing IoT a difficult task. In this report, we examine how eSIM can address some of the challenges around IoT security. We also highlight a range of vendors offering IoT security solutions.

Understanding of IoT security among enterprises is on the rise. A higher proportion of enterprises rate security as a key purchasing factor in 2020 compared to 2018. This increase in understanding also occurs at a time when enterprises are aiming to adopt a security-first approach as their USP. However, they are only at the start of this journey.

GSMA Intelligence's Chart of the Month is a new visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. In this edition, we reveal attitudes among enterprises towards changing their security practices in light of their IoT deployments.

In the 5G era security risks are amplified, but many enterprises are still uncertain of their security risk tolerance and, unless they are risk aware, will overestimate the business benefits of 5G that they are testing for. Operators are in a strong position to help enterprises become resilient, as they can offer both advisory services to help enterprises identify risks, and security metrics for monitoring and responding to risks.

On 14 July, the UK government announced that mobile operators would be banned from buying new 5G network equipment from Huawei after 31 December 2020 and would need to remove all Huawei 5G kit from their networks by 2027. The UK government attempted to quantify the impact, including delays of up to three years to the rollout of 5G in the UK and a cost of up to 2 billion. But these factors are only a piece of the puzzle: other considerations include services beyond 5G, vendor dynamics beyond the obvious, and networks outside of the UK.

With consumers buying connected entertainment and smart home devices off-the-shelf and adding them to their home networks themselves, ISPs and consumers alike are facing a number of challenges. Home network security and internet management solutions can help ISPs achieve operational costs savings and, by creating a reliable user experience, enable service differentiation and incremental revenue.

GSMA Intelligence’s Chart of the Month is a new visual way of telling an important story in the mobile and broader tech ecosystem. From the shape and size of markets to trends in consumer behaviour, we aim to provide food for thought through informative visuals designed to bring colour and clarity to complex issues facing the industry. In this edition, we look at the paradox that exists in how consumers respond to perceived risks about the security of their personal data online.

The more data a device gathers, the better the insights. It appears that consumers are willing to accept this trade-off, even against a backdrop of mounting privacy concerns: this is the tech paradox. Despite this apparent contradiction, privacy remains a crucial concern, as confirmed by our consumer survey. On top of this, there has been no slowdown on the regulatory front, as a wave of new data rules is imminent.

The Radar continues to throw light on a handful of emerging topics and trends that the telecoms industry is affected by. In this edition, we explore the rise of targeted advertising, look at how data hubs can power the public good, and examine the growing dangers of cyberwarfare.

In among the 5G topics at the recent Mobile 360 event was IoT security, with speakers sharing how they safeguard networks as IoT is deployed. We argue that operators can draw lessons from ensuring security in their IoT portfolios as a foundation for their 5G propositions for enterprises.

IoT stakeholders have different approaches to enabling secure IoT deployments. Practising secure-by-design principles is a default position required by legislation. Beyond that, providing security features at each of the four IoT deployment stages (manufacturing, development, launch and usage) is the key focus for providers of security solutions – but it is also the most competitive space. This report examines which players are best-placed to capture the IoT security opportunity.

This GSMA Intelligence report looks at current and future developments in the eSIM ecosystem across several perspectives: technology, use cases, market outlook and challenges, and policy & regulation. The report offers a global perspective before focusing on the eSIM market in China. We look at the future outlook for eSIM across three segments: consumer electronics (wearables, tablets and laptops), smartphones and IoT.

Remote provisioning technology and embedded form factors represent a major development in the history of the SIM. This report looks at the implications from a market perspective. For consumers, SIM developments are likely to be unambiguously positive; for businesses, the implications are more nuanced, bringing both opportunities and challenges.

This report provides an overview of recent developments in the SIM card market, underlining the industry’s efforts to work towards defining a new approach to the SIM that will serve both the M2M and consumer markets. It covers the history of the SIM from the earliest days of mobile technology to the present day - and discusses new SIM solutions such as Embedded SIM and Remote Provisioning.