Financial services is a strong and growing vertical sector for the eSIM and global connectivity team at Telecom26 as businesses look to cut the cost of keeping their employees connected as they travel around the world.

Our team of maritime connectivity experts recently wrote about How maritime connectivity and new technologies are enabling the global shipping industry to decarbonise and, in many previous blogs, we have talked about how the shipping industry is booming, after the logistical issues posed by COVID and adopting new processes to tackle inefficiencies and waste.

Private networks are attracting considerable attention and investment – but what is a private network and what security advantages can they offer? For our purposes, a private network is a cellular network that is self-contained and isolated from public network infrastructure. They are sometimes also known as “non-public networks” or NPNs.

September is here and many of us who reduce our business travel during the summer will be back in normal post-holiday work mode. Whilst for those who use their personal phone abroad during their summer breaks, well, they might well be experiencing bill shock when they look at the costs of all those calls, text and WhatsApps to their family and friends from the beach.

Our maritime connectivity team was very interested to read this recent interview between McKinsey, the global management consultancy, and the COO of ZeroNorth, which “uses data to help shipping companies become more efficient and, by extension, greener”.  

Earlier in the year we wrote about 5G and the thoughts of Cisco, GSMA and Telecom26 which you can read here.