Cerillion Blog - Digital Transformation

While operators race to deliver ever-faster connections to people who are already well-served, billions of potential customers remain without any reliable signal at all. Is ubiquitous coverage, not speed, where the opportunity lies?

Direct-to-device satellite connectivity is transforming satellite communications from a costly, niche solution into a mass-market capability. Leonardo Hodgson considers how telcos can monetise and scale hybrid terrestrial–satellite connectivity.

How can CSPs truly keep pace with customer demands and the rapid evolution of digital services? As the industry shifts from rigid, request-response architectures to flexible, event-driven integrations, Leonardo Hodgson explores how asynchronous APIs are unlocking new levels of efficiency and innovation across the telco ecosystem.

After months of breathless anticipation and increasing promises of GenAI, the release of GPT-5 served as an unexpected reality check for an industry high on its own supply. Perhaps it’s time to see AI for what it really is: not magic, but normal technology. Can we find this middle ground, or is the bubble about to dramatically pop?

In 1995, two futurologists made a series of projections for the state of telecoms in the 2020s. We revisit their forecasts in 2025 to see how well – or not – their predictions held up.

Headless BSS allows telcos to retain their existing customer-facing platforms, while modernising and integrating back-end functions, giving operators the flexibility to choose only the components they need, and benefitting from streamlined, pre-integrated deployment.

Digital transformation in the telecoms sector has proven to be a major challenge, with many CSPs having so far failed to realise its full potential. Can telcos revitalise their efforts, or are they doomed to over-promise and under-deliver?

What happens to the telecoms industry if mobile networks reach overcapacity and data traffic starts to fall? We might already be in that situation. Has cratering data traffic growth brought us to "the end of telecoms history?"