A sudden pandemic disrupted all sectors of the economy in 2020, with countries taking various lockdown measures. For an international company like Whale Cloud, it became an unprecedented challenge to deliver global projects - especially digital transformation projects - on time.

In our latest Features Review video, DT Editor Manny Pham and Director of Content James Barton take a look back at featured articles from the past months.

Over the past few months, Developing Telecoms has been working hard to produce more analytical pieces focused on the exciting and unpredictable workings of emerging markets telecoms. We’ve now compiled these articles into our new Features section for ease of access.

In this interview, Developing Telecoms' James Barton speaks to Eric Festraets, the strategic marketing director for fixed networks at Nokia and President of the Fibre to the Home Council Europe, to discuss how fibre can be effectively monetized in emerging markets.

There has been a flurry of 5G activity over the past few years, leading to the emergence of new business models and industry ecosystems. But what are the opportunities in scaling 5G to B?

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) is a relatively new term in the communications field. Before this term was introduced, the more common term was Satellite networks, namely Geostationary Earth Orbits (GEO) satellites.

While the cost of deploying fibre has long been a sticking point for operators prioritising fast deployment and affordability, Ana Pesovic, Marketing Director at Nokia explained to us how the long-term value proposition of passive optical networking (PON) is already clear – both in rural and urban areas.

At Huawei’s Win-Win Innovation Week held recently, Chen Xuejun from Huawei's Carrier IT Marketing & Solution Sales Department delivered a keynote speech demonstrating how Huawei Cloud helps carriers accelerate cloud transformation to drive new growth.

At the recent MPLS, SD & AI Net World Congress 2022 Congress (also called the MPLS Forum) held in Paris, France, Ping Wu, CTO of Huawei Datacom Product Line European Branch delivered a keynote speech titled "IPv6 Enhanced, Unleashing Connectivity Potential.”

During keynote presentations at the recent IPv6 Summit held in Paris representatives from key organisations ETSI, ARCEP, IETF and EANTC, along with a number of operators and vendors, focused on the potential of IPv6 Enhanced to accelerate development of the digital economy through increased connectivity.

Intracom Telecom’s focus at MWC2022 was on 5G, network virtualisation and sustainability. We caught up with Marketing Director Sotiris Bithas to discuss these themes, as well as the vendor’s NFV-RI platform which boosts virtual network function performance.

Massamba Thioye from UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, gave a speech calling for embracing a green deal for sustainable development at Huawei’s Day0 Forum.

Several of Ericsson’s investors have rejected the vendor’s proposal to clear its CEO and certain board members of liability over the alleged payment of bribes to military groups in Iraq.

At MWC 2022, we spoke to John Tenidis of Intracom Telecom to discuss the solutions that the vendor was showcasing at the event.

At Mobile World Congress 2022, we attended Huawei’s Operation Transformation Forum Roundtable on the theme of Accelerating Digital Operations Transformation towards Business Success.

With the advent of new technologies such as 5G, IoT, cloud computing and big data, information and communications technologies (ICTs) are rapidly reshaping the world. Yet throughout this digital transformation, the global telecommunications industry is faced with many challenges.

There have been many misconceptions on green development and the ICT industry, which is holding back progress on the ultimate goal of running completely sustainable businesses, for the benefit of the planet.