One of the major themes for MWC 2024 was the mainstream appearance of 5G standalone (5G SA). According to the GSMA, of the 261 commercial 5G services available today, 47 are provided by 5G SA networks, and 89 are planned for deployment in the near term. The ability to assure the new services that 5G SA will enable was, therefore, a key discussion point in the conference with three focus areas:

• Assurance as part of service orchestration
• The need for observability – within domains, across domains and across vertical stacks
• The need for observability – across customers