While supply chain issues have dominated the mainstream news over the past few years, the shortage of skilled staff throughout the supply chain continues to present challenges to the telecoms industry.
While chip shortages and supply chain issues have been big news over the past two years, one of the other major challenges affecting telecoms is the shortage of skilled staff throughout the supply chain.
In its recent report, Future of Work: The Global Talent Crunch, consulting firm Korn Ferry forecasts that by 2030 the deficit of skilled workers in the global technology, media, and telecommunications sector will reach 4.3 million workers.
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A look at the market for access equipment and some of the products and solutions available
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Abigail Williams offers a market update on fibre network deployments in the Middle East And North Africa (MENA) region
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Richard Thorpe, chief delivery officer at CityFibre
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According to Liam Taylor, the answer lies in the detail
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Railway networks not only make for great people and freight transport networks, they also make for great optical transport networks. Jonathan Homa explains what the railway industry needs to consider when building out optical transport links.
