Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast

In the run up to DTW24 – Ignite, which is taking place 18-20 June in Copenhagen, Nik Willetts, CEO, TM Forum, Dr. Steffen Roehn, Partner at Bain & Company and Chairman TM Forum, and Dean Ramsay, Principal Analyst at TM Forum, discuss what to expect from this year’s event as the industry seeks new growth avenues, while adapting to the rise of AI. Listen to the podcast to find out more.

Ayedime Amadi, Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture & Customer Channels for MTN Group, talks about her passion for helping people develop technology and leadership skills, which in turn help MTN Group transform from a telco to a techco.

Sami Luukkonen, Managing Partner of Telco+ at Singtel Group NCS, shares his learnings from AI and generative AI (GenAI) deployment and how the technology can help transform the telecoms industry.

Jacques Bonifay, CEO of Transatel NTT, has played an integral role in developing the global MVNO market since co-founding Transatel in 2000. In this podcast Bonifay discusses how global MVNO services have developed, including in the IoT space, and where he sees future opportunities for growth with Mark Newman, chief analyst, TM Forum

Roz Roseboro, principal analyst, Omdia and Mark Newman, chief analyst, TM Forum took time out from DTW 2022 to dissect what's happening on the show floor, including the softwarization of networks, how AI is being used to solve business problems and how the industry how the industry is getting better at measuring success.

Justin van der Lande, Research Director, Analysys Mason; Andrew Baldock, Product Marketing Director, Infovista; and Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum, got together to unpick proceedings from the first day of TM Forum’s DTW 2022 event in Copenhagen. Their discussion delves into major telco industry trends, including hyperscaler-telco relationships, changing industry business models and AI adoption.

Camille Mendler, Chief Analyst, Service Provider Enterprise, Omdia, and head external judge of this year's TM Forum's Excellence Awards, discusses the winning entries with Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum, and shares which category provoked the most debate between judges.

TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, discuss some of the industry trends they are identifying as they research their upcoming benchmark report ‘Telco to techco: capex and opex implications’.

TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, take a look at recent developments in enterprise markets, including Telefónica Tech's acquisition of Incremental, Verizon's huge US Department of Defense contract win, BT's Division X and enterprise revenue growth in China. They also wonder why feature phones are making a return.

TM Forum's analysts Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay discuss trends at Mobile World Congress and consolidation in Europe as Orange and MasMovil enter exclusive talks to form a joint venture in Spain.

TM Forum’s chief analyst, Mark Newman, discusses Google’s $700M acquisition of a 1.28% stake in Bharti Airtel, which is part of a wider investment that could total $1bn, as well as its latest collaboration with Deutsche Telekom on messaging, sovereign networks and TV.

Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum, takes a look at some of the latest news in the telecoms industry, including 5G deployment near US airports; what Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard means for communication service providers; NTT's collaboration with Airbus Space on Space RAN; and whether telcos are getting much more serious about creating greener businesses.

Open RAN attracted a lot of attention from across the telecoms industry in 2021. Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum, discusses what helped spark the huge interest in Open RAN, as well as the current state of play and whether momentum will continue to build during 2022.

Adan Pope, CTO of Intrado, whose career spans leadership roles at Ciena, Ericsson and Telcordia, discusses what cloud-based systems and agile methodology mean for telecom leaders and how to get the best out of employees that span different generations and technology skills.

Adan Pope has spent more than 20 years as a chief technology officer in the telecoms industry. He drew on his experience of managing through periods of technological and business change to co-author the book 'Respect the Weeds', which looks at what makes digital transformation succeed – and fail. Adan talked to TM forum's Inform about how he perceives the industry today; the importance of principled leadership and how to enable employees to adapt and thrive amid transformation.

TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, discuss the implications of AWS' move into turnkey private networks, competition for the enterprise customer, and European telcos' call for big tech platforms to contribute to network costs and regulatory action on data spaces.

Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President, AI & Customer Experience at TM Forum, and Brian Smith, Accenture’s Global Comms & Media Innovation Lead, discuss why traditional telcos need to become techcos, strategies to bring about change, and what success might look like.

In this week’s QuickTalk podcast TM Forum’s CEO, Nik Willetts, and Steffen Roehn, Chairman of TM Forum and Expert Partner with Bain & Company, discuss the evolution of communication service providers' operational and business models; cross-sector partnerships; cloud native IT deployment and the pressing need for new skills within our industry.

Analysis of the latest news from Orange; Nokia’s industrial edge solution, tower asset sales, data governance and partnering.

TM Forum analysts, Mark Newman and Dean Ramsay, discuss trends from the first week of C-level presentations at the Digital Transformation World Series, including partnerships, 5G monetization, cultural change and operational simplification.