Here are the stories we'll be following in 2025Here are the stories we'll be following in 2025

What's on the Light Reading editorial coverage list in 2025? Network slicing, AI in the RAN (and damn near everywhere else), data center transformation, 5G Advanced getting more advanced-ier, broadband policy, spectrum sharing, eSIMs, cable everything, pay TV's funeral, smartphones that fold, think and make you less reliant on telcos and much more.

Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief

January 2, 2025

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Welcome to the new year, Light Readers.

Here, in one place, is Light Reading's compilation of holiday stories – our annual review of the stories that stood out and the trends we're watching for the next 12 months. 

For our 2024 in review series, we covered essential, ongoing stories and where we see the industry's most prominent companies spending, making and sometimes losing money. 

For our 2025 preview, we've compiled a few of the ideas, companies and trends that could continue to reshape the global communications marketplace.

Enjoy the coverage review and forward-looking analysis, and let us know what we should cover more often. 

2024 in review

2025 preview

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About the Author

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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