Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast

Tackling the latest telecom questions with today's network and communications business leaders

Inside Out: Is Open RAN going to plan? 06/06/2024

Inside Out: Is Open RAN going to plan? Patrick Lopez, Founder and CEO, Core Analysis and Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum, discuss the global telecoms market's current commitment to the development of Open RAN and where the Open RAN market is heading. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/31630042

DTW24 - Ignite: The Executive preview 05/22/2024

DTW24 - Ignite: The Executive preview 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/31415362

Building skills for a techco future 05/10/2024

Building skills for a techco future 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/31227457

Inside Out: Are telcos ready to harness AI's potential? 04/26/2024

Inside Out: Are telcos ready to harness AI's potential? 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/30999913

TM Forum's Inside Out: What's next for MVNOs? 04/05/2024

TM Forum's Inside Out: What's next for MVNOs? 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 /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/30695268

DTW 2022: Omdia's Roz Roseboro on what's changed in three years 09/22/2022

DTW 2022: Omdia's Roz Roseboro on what's changed in three years 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/24458010

DTW 2022: The analysts' take on telco industry transformation 09/21/2022

DTW 2022: The analysts' take on telco industry transformation 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/24443559

DTW 2022: TM Forum Excellence Awards 09/20/2022

DTW 2022: TM Forum Excellence Awards 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/24433620

Telco to techco - what does it mean for capex and opex? 04/27/2022

Telco to techco - what does it mean for capex and opex? 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’. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/22927961

Enterprise developments: Telefónica, Verizon and BT make moves 03/24/2022

Enterprise developments: Telefónica, Verizon and BT make moves 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/22556885

Quick Talk: MWC and Orange/MasMovil JV talks 03/09/2022

Quick Talk: MWC and Orange/MasMovil JV talks 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/22390121

Quick Talk: Google’s stake in Bharti Airtel and collaboration with Deutsche Telekom 02/03/2022

Quick Talk: Google’s stake in Bharti Airtel and collaboration with Deutsche Telekom 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/22011185

Quick Talk: Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard; US 5G airports spat; Space RAN and sustainability 01/20/2022

Quick Talk: Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard; US 5G airports spat; Space RAN and sustainability 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21834899

Will Open RAN maintain momentum in 2022? 01/14/2022

Will Open RAN maintain momentum in 2022? 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21774113

Spanning the generations: how to get the best out of a diverse workforce 01/13/2022

Spanning the generations: how to get the best out of a diverse workforce 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21763634

Quick Talk: Veteran CTO discusses why telco transformation succeeds - and fails 12/14/2021

Quick Talk: Veteran CTO discusses why telco transformation succeeds - and fails 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21484526

Quick Talk: AWS, private networks and competing for the enterprise 12/02/2021

Quick Talk: AWS, private networks and competing for the enterprise 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21352544

The journey from telco to techco 11/24/2021

The journey from telco to techco 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, how they go about it, and what success might look like. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/21273539

TM Forum's CEO and Chairman take the pulse of telco industry 10/21/2021

TM Forum's CEO and Chairman take the pulse of telco industry 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20891903

QuickTalk: News analysis of Orange, Nokia and IHS Towers IPO 10/08/2021

QuickTalk: News analysis of Orange, Nokia and IHS Towers IPO Analysis of the latest news from Orange; Nokia’s industrial edge solution, tower asset sales, data governance and partnering. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20751767

Quick Talk: DTWS: The analysts' round up 09/24/2021

Quick Talk: DTWS: The analysts' round up 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. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20587364

Quick Talk: Two weeks in telecoms 09/10/2021

Quick Talk: Two weeks in telecoms TM Forum's Chief Analyst, Mark Newman, and Principal Analyst, Dean Ramsay, delve into the stories behind the recent headlines in our new podcast series Two weeks in telecoms. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20429543

Why diversity & inclusion is a board-level issue 08/25/2021

Why diversity & inclusion is a board-level issue Vicky Sleight, TM Forum’s Global Director of Human Factor and D&I, discusses why diversity & inclusion is of strategic importance for the telecoms industry and shares news of upcoming initiatives to facilitate and benchmark D&I. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20256245

Mapping a path to telco growth 08/19/2021

Mapping a path to telco growth 5G offers communication service providers (CSP) the possibility to develop new business lines. But which strategies and services are likely to deliver the revenue growth that has proven so elusive in recent years? Mark Newman, chief analyst, TM Forum and Dean Ramsay, principal analyst, TM Forum are undertaking extensive research to find some answers for an upcoming report Mapping the Path to Telco Growth. They talk about the approach they are taking and why in Inform’s latest Quick Talk podcast. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/20193134

Cloud Native for Telco vendors 04/27/2021

Cloud Native for Telco vendors In this final episode of Cloud Talk, Mark Newmand and Mark Collins spend time looking at exactly what is cloud native and how telcos can go about choosing the right vendor to partner with them on their migration journey /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/18877058

TM Forum & MEF Buddy Up on Telco APIs 10/08/2020

TM Forum & MEF Buddy Up on Telco APIs This episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, is all about how Open APIs save telcos time and money. Host Liz Coyne, TM Forum's CTO, George Glass, and MEF's CTO Pascal Menezes discuss the two industry association's joint efforts to align their APIs per the request of their largest telco members. TM Forum announced the collaboration as part of its Digital Transformation World Series event happening online until November 12, 2020. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/16325786

Taming your AI 09/23/2020

Taming your AI On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's AI and customer experience VP, Aaron Boasman-Patel, talks about how telcos can keep their AI in check at speed and scale -- especially when something goes wrong. He also talks about how collaboration projects inside TM Forum are helping to solve AI challenges with a new API suite, AI check lists and more. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/16132463

Orange "Googles IT," TikTok Boom! and Telco Earnings Insight 08/12/2020

Orange "Googles IT," TikTok Boom! and Telco Earnings Insight On this episode of Quick Talk, a TM Forum podcast, host Liz Coyne and TM Forum's chief analyst, Mark Newman, discuss the partnership of Orange and Google and their thoughts around public cloud, edge computing and 5G. They also chat about telco Q1 2020 earnings and even talk about Trump taking on TikTok and Microsoft's interest in owning the social media platform's US business. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/15584597

The Human Factor 08/05/2020

The Human Factor In this episode of Quick Talk, host Liz Coyne talks to Vicky Sleight who heads up TM Forum’s new Diversity and Inclusion Council and runs collaboration projects focused on Diversity and Inclusion specifically. Vicky not only talks about how diversity and inclusion can accelerate business transformation, but also discusses the difficult role of today's Chief Diversity Officers and offers perspective on what companies need to do to set these new C-Level folks up for success. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/15494978

Mission Possible: Pushing 5G in the UK 07/30/2020

Mission Possible: Pushing 5G in the UK In this episode of Quick Talk, Liz Coyne talks to Ros Singleton, chair of the advisory board of . UK5G is the UK’s national innovation network dedicated to the promotion of research, collaboration and the industrial application of 5G in the UK. is one of the core delivery partners alongside Cambridge Wireless and Knowledge Transfer Network. As the organization’s mission is to ensure that the UK is at the forefront of global 5G development, Ros provides insight into the latest projects and programs going on under the organization’s umbrella. /episode/index/show/tmfpodcasts/id/15412892

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