Anita Döhler, NGMN Alliance:
Ladies and gentlemen, dear audience, dear colleagues, dear friends, welcome to NGMN's annual Press and Industry Briefing at this Mobile World Congress in 2025. It is a great pleasure for me to provide Arash, a big, big thank you for his leadership to the NGMN Alliance. He's extremely passionate to provide value to the industry. He led the Alliance and the Board of Directors and also myself as a CEO through quite turbulent times in the last four years. Thank you very much, Arash.

Arash Ashouriha, Deutsche Telekom:
As an operator community, we have realized that our network infrastructure has a huge impact on the environment, so we better address not only energy efficiency, which is basically also you can count money, but also the overall sustainable aspect.

Anita Döhler, NGMN Alliance:
Welcome Laurent. Laurent Leboucher, our new chairman, Laurent, was elected by the board of directors just on this Sunday.

Laurent Leboucher, Orange:
It's not just a question of energy consumption, it's also a question of the food ecosystem, how we can bring together the supply also with operators and how we can really measure, understand scope. What is the most challenging is scope three, scope three and four, scope three. Clearly we need the whole industry to be fully engaged and fully committed.

Arash Ashouriha, Deutsche Telekom:
Personally super convinced that actually with AI, we are now going to supercharge the efforts because through AI, first of all, we are going to go with energy efficiency places we have never been, quoting Star Trek, I realized. And secondly, through AI, also the whole supply chain, the scope one, two, and three aspect in terms of how you understand it's going to be, which would have been a manual effort of thousand man-years, right? Could be handled a much more efficient way.

Laurent Leboucher, Orange:
2025 is really a critical year because this is the beginning of standards, so pre-studies in the context of 3GPP, and we definitely need to be extremely clear on the priorities, the requirements regarding this new, very important piece of standards for the industry.

Arash Ashouriha, Deutsche Telekom:
It's the first time I believe in humankind's history where technology is evolving faster than we can adopt it.

Anita Döhler, NGMN Alliance:
We really, at this moment in time, we need to collaborate. We need to move together, the industry into the right direction to create additional value to our customers. Thank you.