Convergence and collaboration emerged as key themes at the recent Mobile World Congress Las Vegas 2022 as attendance recovered some, but not all, of the decline from pre-pandemic levels when the event was held in Los Angeles. Under the show’s theme of ‘Connectivity Unleashed’, major industry players were seen to be joining forces to address challenges faced by operators as they embrace virtualization and cloud computing principles in search of elusive efficiency savings and greater agility in deployment of new services. At the same time, there was growing appreciation that mobile networks cannot by themselves achieve global coverage without assistance from satellite constellations over the oceans and remote land areas. Such ubiquity is becoming essential as mobile networks are relied…