neXt Curve in partnership with Transforma Insights bring you our joint recap of Mobile World Congress 2024, which occurred last week in Barcelona, Spain, drawing over 100K attendees. This recap is presented by Matt Hatton, Co-founder and Principal at Transforma Insights and Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst at neXt Curve.

neXt Curve was very excited to partner with Transforma Insights to bring what we call Essential Validated Insights to our clients and the industry from MWC 2024. neXt Curve and Transforma Insights collaborated on a broad research agenda that touched on the following Transition Topics for 2024:

* IoT and data regulations
* Market segmentation, channels, and partner programs
* eSIM, particularly SGP.32
* Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) and hybrid connectivity
* The new data landscape and impact on IoT
* Contextualization
* 2G/3G sunsetting and implications for IoT
* Evolving mobile private networks (MPNs)
* IoT Application Enablement Platforms (AEPs)
* Video analytics enabled by AI
* 5G opportunities in IoT
* Cellular LPWA

Matt and Leonard share the following impressions and takes from MWC 2024:
* The IoT customer is not always right (5:20)
* The need for a new scaling thesis for IoT (6:50)
* Does private 5G need to be as easy as Wi-Fi? (7:54)
* Is private 5G looking for a new mojo? (11:09)
* eSIM and the SPG.32 standard - progress? Commercial viability? (14:13)
* Open & shared concepts of Open Gateway and eSIM roaming tested (17:00)
* The Water Bed Effect (20:25)
* Non-terrestrial ready for commercial prime time? (21:30)
* AI, an MWC 2024 bright spot thanks to Gen AI? (26:19)
* Regulation missing in action at MWC 2024 (29:31)
* The polarization of ICT - bifurcation or trifurcation? (31:10)
* Chinese ICT vendors take a very different tone at MWC 2024 (33:46)
* What do we expect or hope for from MWC 2025? (36:40)

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