Envision Associates

30/12/2022

As our founder Tomas Lamanauskas is moving to his new role as ITU Deputy Secretary-General, we proudly announce that Dr. Mohamed Tayeb Mahmood will take over the management of Envision Associates.

"Huge thanks to Mohamed, Dalsie, Jordan, Lew and Gehrman for an amazing team-work in setting up Envision Associates, and delivering high quality advise to our clients," said Tomas. "It's great to leave our joint creation in experienced and trusted hands."

"It has been a true pleasure working with Tomas together at Envision. I am honoured to lead this organization forward", noted Mohamed. "Best success to Tomas in his exciting new chapter".

Envision Associates is an advisory firm that aims to enable its clients to achieve their , , and goals in and technology sectors – with a mission to contribute to creating and enhancing sustainable for everyone.

22/06/2022

Pleasure to moderate a panel on : Data-Gateway Platforms and the at .

Clear that the and autonomy can only be achieved through connections and partnerships with others.

Big thanks to panelists for great insights and to Manuel Costa Cabral of ANACOM - Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações for putting it all together!

European External Action Service

21/10/2021

Vodafone is planning to add 7,000 software engineers by 2025 to develop more of its own across Europe and Africa. The operator is saying it is building a “global software brand” to provide superfast and products for its customers.

TelecomTV reports that this will added to the existing 9,000 software engineers Vodafone already employs and, by 2025, at least half of the Vodafone Technology R&D team will be software engineers, up from about 30% currently.

Another phase in an insource - outsource, build - buy/partner, digital/tech company - core cycle? Or this time it is different?

Vodafone said it would add nearly 7,000 software engineers to its workforce by 2025 to develop more of its own digital services across Europe and Africa.

21/10/2021

Equinix Global Index 2021 release provides another evidence of the . Yes, pandemic seems to have fuelled it - but people seem to start getting tired of this statement :).

Specifically, as businesses digitize their business models and demand for increases, worldwide interconnection bandwidth is forecast to grow at 44% annual rate (CAGR) by 2024, resulting in 4x of the 2020 global total by then.

Americas seems to continue being the largest region in this regard, contributing 47% of global interconnection bandwidth.

Note: Interconnection bandwidth is a measure, calculated in bits/sec, of the capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic between two parties (enterprises, service providers), inside carrier-neutral colocation data centers. Equinix says it is forecast to be 15x larger than the Internet.

GXI Vol. 5 reveals why cloudifying business as usual is not enough

11/10/2021

providers announce a joint commitment to , calling for governments to support cross-border , and emphasizing:

- ;

- support to governments obligation to protect and security; and

- aim to avoid being caught in international .

Beyond the three cloud giants, signatories include Atlassian, Cisco, IBM, Salesforce + Slack, and SAP.

07/10/2021

Worrying news from - with a high risk that networks may need to shut down due to the challenges to procure fuel to power them.

As it’s demonstrated starkly by pandemic, if it wasn’t obvious before, is essential to keep the economy and society going. Keeping people needs to be a priority in facing the crisis in Lebanon as well.

The worsening financial crisis in Lebanon has made diesel scarce – so much so that state-run network operators may soon have to shut down

07/10/2021

Day Two of the and workshop - on , , and .

Very encouraging to:

- see an enthusiastic response from Pacific and to a call for our industry to do its bit in the fight against ;

- get to know that countries like and are already working on national policies;

- hear a call for such organizations as the International Telecommunication Union and Asia-Pacific Telecommunity to further enhance support to the region in addressing matters.

Our Managing Partner Tomas Lamanauskas noted: "if we lose the planet, everything else will not matter". This message seemed to resonate very strongly in the Pacific.

02/10/2021

Still time to register for an online and Workshop, hosted by the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association ( ) - for 5-6 October 2021.

Envision Associates along with our partners LS telcom will be contributing to the following sessions:

- Tomas Lamanauskas, Managing Partner, Envision Associates:
o October 5 - Industry Trends Affecting Regulatory Strategies
o October 6 - Achieving Sustainable Impacts

- Richard Womersley, Managing Director at LS Telecom UK:
o October 5 -

- Emanuela Lecchii, Senior Associated Consultant at Envision Associates / Law Lecturer at University of Dundee:
o October 6 - in the Era, why bother?

- Jordan Weinstock, Senior Consultant at Envision Associates:
o October 5: Roundtable: Small Island Issues, Handling Data with growing Business and Digital Applications

Big thanks to Dalsie Green Baniala, our Head of Pacific, for making this happen!

Looking forward to sharing our insights with and learning from the Pacific telecom community!

This session forms part of the series of pocket development meetings by PITA with partners, with this particular one for regulatory and policy players, organised for the further opportunity of discussing and networking on developments and need. It is an informal roundtable for the Pacific members an...

29/09/2021

Euroconsult predicts a surge in non-geostationary ( ) capacity and market valuation - tighter integration between satellite and terrestrial networks seems to be a key in achieving that though.

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29/09/2021

Another aspect of - : INWIT S.p.A. shows how they could be made greener with the launch of a wooden tower

Inwit claimed it had constructed Italy’s first wooden mobile telecoms tower, using 100 per cent sustainable material.