In this interview, Waqas Hassan, Regional Lead for Asia at the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP), reflects on Bangladesh’s progress in digital development and the challenges that remain in achieving truly meaningful connectivity. Drawing on his experience at the Pakistan...
Warren Finch is an Internet infrastructure specialist and trainer with more than three decades of experience in the information technology sector. Currently serving as an IXP Development Expert at the Internet Society, he works on supporting Internet infrastructure growth and strengthening...
The latest data from MEF shows that mobile spending is softening across markets between the 2025 and 2026 surveys, as higher energy prices, inflation and interest rates pressure consumers and businesses. This shock is external, but the effects are internal. Every crisis starts with the consumer:...
The term “enshittification”, coined by technology writer Cory Doctorow, captures a now-familiar phenomenon: the steady degradation of online services that once improved everyday life. If Facebook feels less like a social network and more like an advertising maze, if carefully crafted LinkedIn...
India’s Adani Group has announced plans to invest $100 billion by 2035 to develop hyperscale artificial intelligence-ready data centres, marking one of the largest infrastructure commitments in the country’s technology sector and reinforcing New Delhi’s ambition to emerge as a global AI hub....
Across the Mobile Ecosystem Forum’s (MEF) events, research and member dialogues, one theme stood out in 2025: mobile is being rebuilt around trust, automation and richer user experiences. In 2026, these trends will deepen, changing how networks are exposed, how brands engage customers, and how...
