A Very Mobile Magazine Christmas - January 2024

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The mobile industry hit the ground running in January 2024
To conclude 2024, we look at some of the largest stories within the telco sector. From Google, to Vodafone, here is our look at January…
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At the start of 2024, we teased Samsung announcing its plans for 2024 as part of Galaxy Unpacked. The company stated that it was eager to open a new era of Mobile AI, with its January 2024 event hoping to unveil the latest premium Galaxy innovations, which will include providing an all-new mobile experience powered by AI.

This teaser is part of a wider global reaction as enterprises are increasingly using AI to innovate mobile devices and launch more AI-enabled smartphones in 2024.

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In line with the announced event, Samsung expected to unveil its latest line of Galaxy mobile phones with AI functions. The company stated that the handsets will offer an all-new mobile experience powered by AI, with AI and machine learning running solely on a device or working alongside cloud services.

The much-anticipated S24 smartphone series was teased to include powerful new AI features, in addition to other routine upgrades. Samsung’s new devices were anticipated to be the first new phones to include Galaxy AI, which aims to offer a comprehensive mobile AI experience.

Three UK & Vodafone UK Merger Unlocks £11bn 5G Investment

Robert Finnegan, CEO of Three UK and Ireland and Ahmed Essam, CEO of Vodafone UK

After an initial announcement in June 2023, CK Hutchinson and Vodafone Group formally notified the proposed merger of Three UK and Vodafone UK to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The timing was apt, as 2023 Opensignal research has ranked the UK the 39th out of 56 countries in terms of active 5G connections and has found the UK to have the slowest data download speeds in the G7. 

The merger, which will make the biggest waves that the UK mobile industry has seen in over a decade, is due to significantly improve 5G in the UK.

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“We look forward to continuing the constructive conversations now that the formal process has begun,” shares Ahmed Essam, CEO of Vodafone UK. 

Essam has worked as CEO of the Group’s Europe Cluster – which includes Albania, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, and Romania — as well as Vodafone Group’s Chief Commercial Operations and Strategy Officer before taking the reins as CEO in February 2021.

The merger was officially approved in December 2024.

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