The mobile market is maturing as a vertical, limiting new revenue opportunities, but technological innovation also creates opportunities to improve network efficiency and capabilities (while increasing complexity, however).
In this Sparring Partners, I talked with Itsuma Tanaka, CEO of Docomo Euro-Labs, about how MNOs in Japan and elsewhere are changing in response to user expectations, new competition and new technology.
Among the topics we discussed:
- The role of basic connectivity and new services that expand it
- AI optimization, satellite, ISAC
- Different impact of geopolitical environment in Japan, Europe and the US
- Reducing network complexity to facilitate adoption of new technologies
You can watch the video of this podcast on Sparring Partners on Substack
