To make a good return on investment, operators need to pick the right use cases. Senior figures from gaming, broadcasting, transport and smart cities explain what they need.

Stefano Gastaut, CEO, Vodafone IoT, talks to Annie Turner about the key role of telecom infrastructure in smart cities, and how well the two parties understand each other.

Mobile operators target consumers and enterprises with 5G, but return on investment and backhaul costs are big concerns.

This was the message from Martin Brynskov, Chairman, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), who stressed smart cities are a huge market for telcos. By Sarah Wray.

After a year’s investigation, John Strand of Strand Consult explains how Europe’s net neutrality law is doing far more harm than good to operators and consumers alike, and is built on many wrong-headed assumptions.

Security is central to the Internet of Things success and not a peripheral issue, an Executive Member of the IoT Council has claimed.

2G will prove an important technology in the future of IoT connectivity, despite the rise of LPWAN technology, an Orange executive has claimed.

Machine learning, automation and artificial intelligence will be crucial to sifting through the multitude of data produced by the Internet of Things, the GSMA has claimed.

Operators need to commit fully to the Internet of Things if they are to win the battle for the consumer market, an Arthur D Little executive has claimed.

The Internet of Things' strength will be in the breadth of services it offers, rather than a deep dive into specific verticals, TIM has claimed.

The broad church of the Internet of Things could actually be holding it back by making its identity muddled, according to industry watchers.

The Internet of Things can revolutionise how businesses operate by opening up new revenue streams, Proximus has claimed.

Vodafone's Director of IoT has dismissed suggestions operators will become the dumb pipe of the Internet of Things as "fundamentally wrong".

Take-up of the Internet of Things has fallen short of expectations, but “maturity is coming”, according to execs from Orange and Proximus.