CTO of the Year 2019

摘要

We're launching our search for Mobile Europe's CTO of 2019 Awards, which have become a fixture in the European telecoms industry since they began in 2013. They are designed to celebrate the achievements of two CTOs - one who has a centralised group role, the other who heads up technology strategy and deployment within a single country or territory. As we have discovered over the years, inspiration, dedication and innovation come in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes from the least expected places. Being a CTO has never been so demanding as it is right now. 5G is imminent and building out the network - and leveraging its capabilities - will require unprecedented levels of investment and ingenuity. Yet, as we explore in our annual readership survey (see page 26), figuring out use cases and business models are critical to 5G's roll-out, evolving the CTO's role still further down the path of driving operators' businesses and strategy, not simply facilitating them.