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Sep 17, 2026
Brian KayPANELIST
But essentially here, so the scale of this cybercrime ecosystem, we know that it just continues to grow.
Brian KayPANELIST
So we were at Mobile World Congress a couple weeks ago here, and I thought one of the interesting pieces of research that was cited was that in 2025, the estimated global scam losses were around $450 billion worldwide.
Brian KayPANELIST
And I just mentioned that because I think it just gives you a sense of the scale that organizations are having to defend against.
Brian KayPANELIST
And we know that number is only going to increase.
Curt LairdGUEST
It had been stripped bare by the Taliban.
Curt LairdGUEST
And so we come in to build a national mobile phone company, and we were committed to build not only a world-class mobile phone company, which it won some awards from the World Mobile Congress, I think is what it was called, but also...
Curt LairdGUEST
To make it profitable.
Curt LairdGUEST
So the Aga Khan said to us, you need to build this at a 35% EBITDA ratio.
Lynette WongHOST
That's for IBM.
Lynette WongHOST
We made this for Mobile World Congress.
Lynette WongHOST
We made a choose your own action adventure thing.
Lynette WongHOST
product demo with mobile solutions because the insight was you know the usual you look at global web web index and they over index this audience of mobile solution buyers on a b2b lens on action movies they love action movies you know why because they want to feel like the action hero and so it's kind of yeah how do you how do you build and play into that which is great yeah you
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
We are engaging governments.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
Uh, we are having this podcast on the sidelines of MWC Barcelona, uh, the biggest connectivity event, um, globally, and a lot of the conversations we are going to be having with governments is around the implementation of some of these policy recommendations because they are backed by data with economic modeling showing economic impact.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
And so when we have those engagements on already going, the- the- the- there's a lot of receptiveness in, in what we are providing.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
There is openness to being able to, uh, learn, explore, see partnerships, and so that provide me that optimism that I'm saying that there is progress and we are seeing a lot more collaboration with different stakeholders.
Achim BenhamaraHOST
Mm.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
So this Handset Coalition, beyond just identifying the basic features of a 30 to $40 device, we have now identified pilot countries that now we'll be engaging the countries specifically.
Caroline MbuguaGUEST
And at MWC Barcelona, we actually have a roundtable with these countries and the investors in that country to be able to now agree how do we move forward b- after we have identified these features? How do we move forward to actually get the devices-
Achim BenhamaraHOST
Mm
Keith DyerGUEST
Yeah.
Monica PaoliniHOST
Mobile World Congress is even worse.
Monica PaoliniHOST
So this is nothing to do with them, but it's all about the industry.
Keith DyerGUEST
Yeah.
Aki AnastasiouHOST
What is this device? This is the most talked about device in the world at the moment.
Lionel ChenGUEST
Yes, we first announced, unveiled, I would say, this device in March at MWC Barcelona.
Lionel ChenGUEST
But we just had a commercial launch in China first, like two weeks ago.
Lionel ChenGUEST
So we can't wait to bring it to South African market to show to the consumers how innovative Honor can be.
Barbara PareglioGUEST
We will have also follow-up webinars.
Barbara PareglioGUEST
So also you can meet us at GSM events where the primary dual, I would say, is Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next year.
Barbara PareglioGUEST
So don't miss it.
Jim MorrishHOST
Absolutely.
Paul ThurrottHOST
If I'm being honest, you know, it's 99% better.
Leo LaporteHOST
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Paul ThurrottHOST
Exactly.
Leo LaporteHOST
Even Berlin.
Radhika GuptaGUEST
Also, it is worth mentioning that SK Telecom kind of had been the leading operator and pioneer in almost every technological innovation or advancement.
Radhika GuptaGUEST
I'm just trying to recall my booth visit at MWC Barcelona every single year.
Radhika GuptaGUEST
In the last two, three years, you remember, post COVID, there was this metaverse hype.
Radhika GuptaGUEST
And I remember going to SK Telecom booth and, you know, trying to get into those immersive worlds.
Ian MorrisHOST
Yeah, and this is where, yeah, you can give him some credit because he has come along and had some impact on this satellite space.
Ian MorrisHOST
And I remember seeing him actually being interviewed at Mobile World Congress a few years ago when they had one of their, they had sort of a remote edition almost with not that many people attending and a lot of it was done on screens and it's all to do with COVID, obviously.
Ian MorrisHOST
But he was being interviewed on screen by our friend Justin Springham.
Scott BichenoHOST
Yeah,
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Scott BichenoHOST
There have been very few new revenue streams that are explicitly associated with 5G.
Scott BichenoHOST
And one of the novel technologies within 5G was this network slicing.
Scott BichenoHOST
And then, you know, we've all had times when we've gone to, like, I don't know, the Ericsson stand at Mobile World Congress, and they've had some demo of a performance network slice for gamers.
Scott BichenoHOST
And we've all just gone, okay, that's very nice, but what's the market for that? Who's going to pay a premium for better 5G performance when hardly any gaming is done over cellular anyway? So there's all these sorts
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