In the new edition of the Tecnodesayunos de Ignacio del Castillo we will have the only presence of Mr. Meinrad Spenger, CEO of MásMóvil who will talk with Ignacio del Castillo about the role of MásMóvil in the Telecommunications market in Spain.

MásMóvil, the fourth Spanish operator, has become the main disruptor of the Spanish telecommunications market and one of the fourth most powerful operators in Europe due to its wide presence in fixed and mobile infrastructures. Its arrival on the convergent market in 2017 triggered a dynamic that has oriented the bulk of the market towards the medium and low cost and has shown that it is possible to grow without a content offer.

In the new edition of the Tecnodesayunos of Ignacio del Castillo we will have the only presence of Mr. António Coimbra, President and CEO of Vodafone Spain, who will talk with Ignacio del Castillo about the challenges of the transformation of the sector.

The telecoms market is facing new challenges caused by technology, customer preferences and market dynamics. The boom in low and medium cost tariffs, the decoupling of terminal sales from services, the unstoppable growth of online sales, or the multiplication of independent content providers, are forcing operators to reinvent themselves

In the future, telco networks will undergo a great evolution, not only because of the arrival of 5G, but also because of other processes that are occurring in parallel.

The growing role of wholesale operators, virtualisation and the impact it will have on creating new services faster and more tailored to customers, open networks and the time it will take to arrive, or Edge Computing with the distribution and capillarisation of the cloud to lower application latency. All of these will push changes in business models.

The networks need significant investments in fibre and 5G and the incumbents have limited resources. This is why wholesale network operators, or netcos, are set to become increasingly important in the sector, both in fixed and mobile networks.

5G is going to change everything, including the operators' ecosystem. It will allow telco networks to be used for more applications and processes than ever before.

From that point of view, there are huge opportunities for operators to win new markets: in healthcare, industrial automation, Smart Cities, Edge Computing, etc. But at the same time, the large deployments, very capillary and extensive in the territory, are a challenge for the operators. On the one hand, they imply large investments, which it is not evident can be addressed by all operators in each country. On the other hand, they can allow the entry of new players, competing with the operators in their own markets: from the internet giants for Big Data activities, born from the Internet of Things, to the entry of neutral infrastructure operators such as Cellnex or even the creation of private data networks for industrial automation by large industrial consortia

Are we entering a new paradigm of telecommunications offers after six years of only fixed-mobile-television offers?

There are recent signs that point to profound changes in the sector's practices: The appearance of the first flat rate for data by the challenger and prudent initial responses by the incumbents taking advantage of their zero rating practices; uncertainty about the continuity of some of the most demanded television content such as football and the possible consequences of a greater focus on aid for the sale of terminals to take advantage of the economic resources that would be released and fill the loyalty gap left by football; consequences of these changes on regulation (network neutrality) and on the level of network saturation if there is an additional and unforeseen explosion in traffic.