Making Connected Cities a Reality

The challenges that operators face today when evolving their networks, operations, and business models are complex. Service providers are having to transform their mobile network to address the growing demand for high-speed data traffic and improve their subscriber experience to remain competitive. This results in a lot of questions. How do market-leading APAC operators succeed by improving their business performance in specific areas? How does the operator overcome their network, operational, and business challenges and build a scalable network to provide the best customer experience to their subscribers? Ken Lim, VP of Sales, APAC at RFS, discusses how RFS offers solutions, driven by customer challenges that align with operators' business objectives and help operators address the key issues that keep them awake at night.

Only this week, research from the UK Met Office predicted that the probability of one of the next five years surpassing the 1.5°C global heating limit set by international governments is now 50%, up from 20% in 2020. This highlights why it is more important than ever that businesses double down on the climate ambition pledges that many have made and focus on taking positive action to ensure that, for the good of the planet, the 1.5°C limit is not breached. Neil Gibson, who is leading our 1.5°C Climate Ambition project, looks at how the telecommunications industry in particular can take action now.

We’re more than halfway through H1 and it has been a busy and productive year so far for both the wireless industry and RFS. In our latest round up, the RFS team looks at some of the big developments over the past two months from smart cities to 5G investment.