What do the Great Wall of China, the Burj Khalifa, and the US interstate highway system have in common? If you search for the world‘s largest infrastructure, those are some of the answers. But there is another infrastructure that beats them all. It’s larger, costlier, and far more relevant. With 6 million towers and so many kilometres of cable, I can‘t even get the proper number. Mobile networks are one of the biggest, if not the biggest, infrastructures in the world. 5G: Last year we hit 2 billion connections. This makes 5G the fastest pickup of all the Gs. Today, there are over 300 5G networks, but only 61 of them have implemented 5G standalone. So, we have to finish the job. If we do this, we can enable enterprises to add \(4.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. That's a lot of money, actually three times the GDP of Spain. If that is not a reason to invest, I don't know what is. Open Gateway: Open Gateway is opening up our networks in an API era and unlocking markets that don't even exist today. So far, operators covering almost 80% of the global mobile connections have signed on. We have 52 commercial networks enabling over 200 APIs, and this is just after two years. Look at the revenues that we didn't have a year ago, 120% since June last year. AI: McKinsey estimates that generative AI could add up to \)5 trillion to the global economy and up to \(100 billion to the telecom industry annually. One great example of that is Bharti Airtel with India's first AI spam solution processing 1 trillion records in real time, flagging 100 million spam calls each day. Spectrum: Spectrum is our oxygen needed for faster networks and better coverage to drive economic growth. In the last 10 years, we have spent \)500 billion on spectrum. We’re happy to invest; we need oxygen. But the challenge comes when governments set high spectrum prices, creating a risk that it won‘t be sold and therefore a natural resource going to waste.
