GSMA
The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry and society thrive. We operate through three main pillars: ✔️ Connectivity for Good engages members, governments and civil society, to advance positive policy and spectrum outcomes, facilitate digital innovation to reduce inequalities in our world, and tackle today’s biggest societal challenges such as digital inclusion, climate change and sustainability. ✔️ Industry Solutions supports the technology and interoperability that make mobile work. For instance, we assist the industry’s development in areas such as 5G, Mobile IoT, fraud and security, through our projects, working groups and other collaborative activities. ✔️ Our events provide successful ways of bringing the ecosystem and adjacent industries together, to make strong business connections and drive positive impact. From the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, MWC, in Barcelona, Shanghai, Las Vegas, Kigali & Doha, to the growing M360 series that has a more regional focus.www.gsma.com
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Sep 16, 2026
Peter JarichHOST
Hi, everyone, and welcome to Intelligence and Noise, the GSMA Intelligence Podcast, where we take a look at the week's news, talk about what you're probably already talking about, and giving some our insights, some of our insights into why what you're talking about matters, and then maybe what you're not talking about and maybe why you should be.
Peter JarichHOST
We build that off of the GSMA CEO newsletter, which if you're getting it means you're important.
Peter JarichHOST
Congratulations.
Peter JarichHOST
If not, we're doing the heavy lifting to tell you about it.
Peter JarichHOST
I'm Peter Jarich, the head of GSMA Intelligence, and as often, I've got Tim Hatt with me.
Peter JarichHOST
As is always the case, I'm going to, uh, take my privilege of kicking off with a bit of an anecdote.
Peter JarichHOST
Um, if you find these cringey, let us know.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
It's about talking about the tools that African women can use as they chart their way in this space and trying to create what they call value.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
And today I'm joined by one incredible woman, none other than Angela Wamola, the head of Africa, the GSMA, somebody that I deeply respect, to help us unpack this conversation around potential.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
So I'll come to you, Angela.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
Thank you very much for joining us.
19 MINS LATER
Caroline MbuguaHOST
Great.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
Fantastic.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
Angela, there's one interesting phrase we like to say at the GSMA, which is unleashing the full potential of technology.
Caroline MbuguaHOST
I cannot let you off the hook before we discuss that.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
My name is Achim Benhamara, and I'm your host.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
I'm very happy to welcome a truly insightful guest today, Caroline Mbugua, Senior Director of Public Policy and Communications at GSMA.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
Hello, Caroline.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
Hello, Achim, and thank you for having me.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
Look, your work involves a lot of, a lot of things in Africa.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
It, it has a deep, deep impact as we learned even through the, let's say, the latest editions of the Digital Africa Summit and your, uh, digitalization reports.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
Can you just give us a nutshell and overview what is your role at GSMA and, uh, how you would define the impact?
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
Um, so the GSMA is an association of mobile operators, and, um, our biggest objective is, of course, to, on the continent at least in Africa, is to drive the digitalization narrative and ensure that we are supporting governments with insights-
Ian GinnHOST
[upbeat music] My name is Ian Guin, and I'm the host of Digital Talk.
Ian GinnHOST
I'm delighted to have, as my guest, Azeema Dhanji from ConnectHere, who we came across at a shout-out of one of our more recent podcasts with Kimberly Brown from the GSMA, and you'll find more about that in our backlog.
Ian GinnHOST
Azeema is co-founder and CEO of ConnectHere, and an intriguing fact about her is that her mother tongue is sign language.
Ian GinnHOST
Welcome to the podcast, Azeema.
14 MINS LATER
Azima DhanjeeGUEST
Just like that, sign language interpretation, translation is important for deaf people.
Azima DhanjeeGUEST
And how can we do that using AI has been something we are working very, very fastly on, very focused on it as well.
Azima DhanjeeGUEST
Just last year with GSMA, our first focus area was for disaster preparedness.
Azima DhanjeeGUEST
In Pakistan, we have been facing tremendous amount of disasters, and around 1.32 million displaced individuals are people with hearing impairment, which means that this huge population do not know or never receive timely information in sign language to know how to protect themselves.
Peter JarichHOST
Hi, everyone, and welcome to Intelligence and Noise, the GSMA Intelligence podcast where we take a look at what's going on in the industry.
Peter JarichHOST
We sort through the noise to try and provide some intelligence.
Peter JarichHOST
I am Peter Jarek, the head of GSMA Intelligence.
Peter JarichHOST
I've got with me Tim.
Peter JarichHOST
Hey, Tim.
Peter JarichHOST
Good, good, good.
Peter JarichHOST
So I've been off for a few weeks of holiday.
Peter JarichHOST
When I left, the GSMA's CEO newsletter had just taken a break, which was a problem for us because we used that as a launchpad to dig into some of the news using what was chosen to go into that newsletter to talk about things that may be going a little bit deeper, things that we're not talking about, but I am back.
John BrunerGUEST
For example, each market has different verification requirements.
John BrunerGUEST
And so from that perspective, we've got people like the GSMA trying to drive a global standard, which every country is participating as saying, yeah, we're going to have our own standard.
John BrunerGUEST
So do you drive a minimum standard? Then you've got other things that we're learning where the submission processes around RCS are much more complicated because the brand has assets that need to be verified.
John BrunerGUEST
But there's also complications because of all the players that are involved and how do we create a secure process where we're sure that changes are being made or are authorized by the brand itself and that all of the players in the market are getting the data that they need to do so.
Jim MorrishHOST
Unfortunately, we're running a little short on remaining time for our podcasts.
Jim MorrishHOST
What I'd like to do, though, Barbara, is ask you just tell us a little about the GSMA's activities in the physical AI space.
Barbara PareglioGUEST
So in the physical area, as I said, it's quite a new area, but we've been looking at different aspects.
Barbara PareglioGUEST
Obviously, in smart mobility, it's one of the communities where we work and where we look at autonomy in the general aspects and how we need to think about the connectivity.
Jim MorrishHOST
We're delighted to have you listening in and part of the growing audience around the world.
Jim MorrishHOST
We'll be back with another edition soon.
Jim MorrishHOST
There will definitely be another edition with the GSMA, with Barbara, and we'll be talking about another aspect of physical AI.
Jim MorrishHOST
And I'm looking forward to that conversation.
speaker_0HOST
It synthesizes data from massive global trackers like GWI, which maps out specific consumer digital behaviors worldwide.
speaker_1HOST
And GSMA intelligence, too, tracking global mobile network adoption.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
So Kemp is dealing with the heaviest, most authoritative data available.
Robert DohertyHOST
A Senior Advisor to the Federal Government Communications Minister and Senior Associate at Asia Pacific Technology Law Firm Gilbert and Tobin Lawyers.
Robert DohertyHOST
He's previously been a director of the UK India Business Council and GSMA's Chief Regulatory Officers Group.
Robert DohertyHOST
He's a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has chaired Vodafone and TPG Telecom Foundations and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Alliance.
Robert DohertyHOST
He's currently a non-executive director of infoxchange.org and is also more recently on the First Nations Digital Inclusion Panel for the Federal Government.
Tim HattHOST
Hi, everybody, and welcome to this week's edition of Intelligence and Noise, the GSMA intelligence podcast of all things great and good and telco and tech, where we look to sift through the huge amounts of noise that are happening in the industry to pull out the intelligence that matters.
Tim HattHOST
Great to see you all again.
Tim HattHOST
we are coming back from the summer holiday.
Tim HattHOST
And so you can probably notice first off that, uh, I am not Peter, uh, may sound a bit like him cause we're from the same continent, but he is still enjoying a last week of break.
Tim HattHOST
Uh, so he, he's got the week off this week.
Tim HattHOST
So, um, I'm here in his place and, and very delighted though to be joined, um, by one of our, uh, great analysts and longtime GSMAI members, Radhika Gupta, who is going to be guest podcasting with us this week.
Tim HattHOST
So Radhika, how's it going?
Radhika GuptaGUEST
It's going good, Tim.
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