This Market Perspective provides a detailed analysis of the main areas addressed at Mobile World Congress 2024 at Barcelona. This annual event gathers the key players in the telecom sector, including operators, network equipment providers, technology companies, systems integrators, and cloud providers. The strategic messages shared during the event, along with the product and commercial announcements, will shape the year in the telecom world."MWC continues to be the milestone of the telecom industry, where the key drivers, challenges, and strategies are shared and discussed. OpenAPIs are the key topic to keep an eye on, already in a commercial state and presented as an industry standard followed by the diversity of use cases of AI in the technology world and the big challenge that the sector has around monetization, to be solved thanks to 5G capabilities." — Associate Vice President of Telco Mobility and IoT Alejandro Cadenas, IDC Europe
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Executive Snapshot
New Market Developments and Dynamics
Sectorial Transformation, Telco Cloud, and Regulation
OpenAPIs — the Key Topic of the Event
Networking Sustainability Is the Main Challenge
The Technology Is Ready, Now It Is Monetization Time
Conclusion
Advice for the Technology Supplier and Services Provider