Beyond the inner workings of mostly-public telecoms, about the navel gazing of open RAN and open APIs to re-make operators as ‘digital natives’ in the post-digital era, what will be the hottest topic at MWC next week? Sustainability? Well, yes; but that is a global challenge, and – in the flashy corporate power-play that is MWC – environmental sustainability is a noisy consequence of economic sustainability, and of desperate growth. No, the hottest topic will be generative AI, clearly; followed, arguably (says RCR Wireless), by the developing narrative around private 5G.
