With 5G on the horizon, how is investment stepping up in research and development? Are carriers taking an active role, or is the drive coming largely from the vendor community? Guy Matthews reports from the frontiers of cellular innovation.

The ubiquitous nature of SMS makes it an obvious add-on service across a wide range of industry verticals. Capacity explores the verticals that are ripe for growth.

Revelations about US government surveillance are widely believed to be costing US telecoms and tech firms revenue. It is difficult to determine, however, whether perceptions match reality.

As SDN moves from tentative sandbox trial to real-life deployment, we put the spotlight on some of the carriers showing the way forward. In partnership with vendors, these players are helping to forge the networking services market of tomorrow.

As SDN moves from tentative sandbox trial to real-life deployment, we put the spotlight on some of the carriers showing the way forward. In partnership with vendors, these players are helping to forge the networking services market of tomorrow.

SDN is being talked of as a great leveller among the different tiers of the carrier community. But is it really the battlefield on which Tier-2 and Tier-3 players could go after Tier-1 carriers?

The migration away from static, hardware-defined networking to a more programmable, virtual and automated future is fragmented. The world’s network operators are all moving at their own pace and with their own priorities, while vendors are anything but unanimous in their vision of what SDN should look like.

Is there a first-mover benefit for carriers adopting early-to-market SDN strategies? If so, does this mean a future where pioneers will only want to do business with other SDN-enabled organisations?

A sovereign state and the largest archipelagic nation in the world, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and – after a period of political instability – its developing telecommunications market is beginning to reflect this.

It has been a long time coming, but network providers might finally have found a new market for ultra-fast connectivity.

The next big thing in ultra-low latency is lasers. But will lawmakers stop trading firms from using them to play the financial markets?

The most important event of the year for wholesale telecoms was held in May. Capacity looks back at the defining moments from ITW 2014.