Looking Ahead: Shaping the Future of the Telecom Industry The telecom industry is at a pivotal moment, facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities as it evolves to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world. From rising costs to stricter sustainability...
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Telecoms Equipment Procurement and ESG in 2025: What Your Network Needs to Know
Telecoms Equipment Procurement and ESG: what your network needs to know (and do!) ESG (which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance) is a framework gaining more and more traction in the telecoms industry. It’s no longer enough for companies to solely focus on...
Faster, Lower-Cost, and Greener Telecom Equipment For Reliable Networks
Telecom Equipment Procurement: Delivered Faster, Costing Less, Lasting Longer Running a network in 2024 can be stressful – maintaining the standard of your operations, the rising cost of telecom equipment, the mandatory green targets you have to hit. What you don’t...
6 Unmissable Lessons in Profitable, Sustainable Network Management
Celebrating 45 years of Shields: here are the greatest green insights we’ve learnt along the way As Shields marks its 45th anniversary, we don’t just celebrate our rich history, but also the invaluable lessons we've learned in making telecom networks more...
Unlocking millions: how to streamline asset management (and transform your network’s obsolete assets into unrestrained revenues)
How Shields has saved networks $600 million and generated them a previously untapped $300 million so far… Whether you’re managing network equipment for a city, country, continent or the entire globe, it’s an intricate landscape out there and navigating it is a...
How to Master Today’s Telecom Supply Chain: Empowering Networks for Success
Networks are facing major challenges when it comes to maintaining inventories and managing equipment stock. The semiconductor shortage and the Covid pandemic proved no-one knows what’s around the corner, and if your network wasn’t keen on the long-drawn-out lead times...
Silent screams: the unseen impact of telecoms manufacturing on wildlife conservation
On International Wildlife Conservation Day, we take a look at the hard truth about telecoms manufacturing and its impact on the planet – and show you how your network can keep doing everything it needs to, without contributing to the problem. In the pursuit of...
5 ways telecoms networks can become their own biggest suppliers, slash spending and maximise budgets
Equipment planning is a high-pressure business. With purchasing spend to manage, critical spares to review and sitting inventory volumes to maintain, you’ve got many parts at play, and only so much time to contend with them. Which is why we've made it as simple as can...
No tricks, just treats: 5 reasons your network should not be spooked by the circular economy
We're myth-busting the reasons why networks need to stop worrying about redeploying decommissioned equipment and, instead, should get on joining the circular economy, saving money, the planet, and increasing quality and revenues simultaneously with MarketPlace! ...
Building a Sustainable Future: The Circular Economy, ESG, Recycling and Telecoms
Find out how Shields' ESG strategies and MarketPlace software are driving efficiency, sustainability, and profitability in the telecoms industry. Telecommunications companies are aware of the crucial role they play in connecting people and businesses worldwide....