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Shiv Putcha
Mar 13, 202412 min read
Mobile World Congress 2024 - Flying Taxis and other, more earthy Takeaways
Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Beyond the Next Billion newsletter. In this edition, we take the opportunity to share some of our key...
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Shiv Putcha
Jan 30, 20248 min read
A new year, new possibilities and obligatory predictions
This was originally posted on January 17th in the "Beyond the Next Billion" newsletter on LinkedIn and adapted here. India in 2024: 3...
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Shiv Putcha
Jan 30, 20245 min read
AT&T embraces OpenRAN, maybe, sort of; and other stories
This was originally posted on December 13th in the "Beyond the Next Billion" newsletter on LinkedIn and adapted here. December 4th, 2023...
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Shiv Putcha
Nov 7, 20239 min read
Road Diaries: US Broadband, FutureNet Asia and India Mobile Congress
Welcome to edition #19 of the Beyond the Next Billion newsletter. We are back after a few weeks on the road followed by the inevitable...
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Shiv Putcha
Nov 7, 20233 min read
TELCO APIs AND THE 5G MONETIZATION CHALLENGE
One of the hot topics to 2023 is 5G monetization, driven by the increasing levels of anxiety and cognitive dissonance that seems to have...
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Shiv Putcha
Jul 11, 20234 min read
Satellite connectivity is the final frontier
We have covered the momentum behind low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations over the last year, with an initial post digging into...
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Shiv Putcha
Jul 11, 20234 min read
GenAI, Google Cloud, Disruption, and the Global South
Without a doubt, generative AI (GenAI) is the biggest buzzword of 2023! Indeed, it seems difficult to have a conversation, even about...
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Shiv Putcha
Jun 13, 20234 min read
The Apple Vision Pro and the spatial computing pitch
The tech and telecom sectors certainly keep churning our new announcements at a rapid clip. The biggest of these stories was, yes, you...
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Shiv Putcha
Mar 31, 20235 min read
India sets the pace with 5G deployment
We had the opportunity to attend a conference recently in New Delhi, the 5G India Congress, hosted by the Economic Times. It was well...
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Shiv Putcha
Mar 22, 202311 min read
Mobile World Congress 2023 Part 4: FWA, NTN and the shrinking Digital Divide
In the first two parts of our roundup of MWC 2023, we spent a fair bit of time highlighting the key issues facing the telco community...
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Shiv Putcha
Mar 13, 20239 min read
Mobile World Congress 2023 Part 3: Private 5G and the Zulu charge
In the first two parts of our roundup of MWC 2023, we spent a fair bit of time highlighting the key issues facing the telco community...
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Shiv Putcha
Mar 7, 20238 min read
Mobile World Congress 2023 Part 2: Telco infrastructure and the Gordian Knot
In the first part of our MWC series, we had opined at some length about the telco “burning platform” and the tough choices that they need...
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Shiv Putcha
Mar 6, 20235 min read
Mobile World Congress 2023 Part 1: The Telco “burning platform”
MWC23 has just ended after a busy week interspersed with chilly weather, countless meetings, both planned and impromptu, and several...
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Shiv Putcha
Feb 22, 20237 min read
India’s Telecom Market and its Janus moment
In ancient Roman mythology, Janus was depicted as the God of “transitions and dualities” and symbolic of new beginnings. Janus was...
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Shiv Putcha
Feb 3, 20235 min read
2023 Predictions or Things we are looking out for – part 2
Recently, we took the opportunity to highlight some of the key trends that we will be tracking through the coming year. However, as soon...
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Shiv Putcha
Jan 12, 20238 min read
2023 Predictions or Things we are looking out for
Right at the outset, here’s wishing everyone a happy and wonderful 2023 to come. As the world of tech and telecom churns endlessly, there...
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Shiv Putcha
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Google Cloud continues its momentum in India
Recently, we had the opportunity to attend Google Next 2022. To be more specific, we had the chance to catch up with Google Cloud execs...
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Shiv Putcha
Oct 27, 20227 min read
Industrial Transformation in the Asia-Pacific region is accelerating
We recently had the opportunity to attend the Industrial Transformation Asia-Pacific 2022 trade show held in Singapore. ITAP2022 is a...
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Shiv Putcha
Sep 14, 20224 min read
Siemens launches its Xcelerator platform in India
Siemens AG, the German industrial technology giant, has launched its new Xcelerator “digital business platform” in India on September...
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Shiv Putcha
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Asia’s rapidly changing political economy is a big driver for the Digital Agenda
A recent opportunity to attend a GSMA conference in Singapore allowed for many meaningful interactions and a number of takeaways about...
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