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This new insights report from Kaleido Intelligence provides an examination of the current state of innovation in Steering of Roaming, covering requirements for the facilitation of 5G services and emerging demands from mobile operators.

Kaleido’s innovation-focused assessment explores the latest developments in roaming steering, highlighting vendor advancements and key trends shaped by 5G and AI. The report includes an Impact Assessment that evaluates the potential of each innovation area as a transformative investment, measuring how effectively they enhance, reshape, and future-proof steering of roaming solutions.

It also brings together key findings from Kaleido’s latest Vendor Hub research, assessing vendor approaches to steering innovation to deliver clear, actionable insights. Combined with input from MNO and service provider surveys, it helps guide investment decisions by outlining the benefits of different approaches and their potential impact on ROI.

This concise 25-page report delivers clear insight into emerging customer demands and 5G-era steering requirements. It explores current vendor approaches to SoR innovation and provides structured impact ratings across key areas, enabling direct comparison of different strategies. The analysis also offers practical investment guidance to help MNOs and service providers make informed, high-value decisions as 5G continues to reshape the roaming landscape.

Readers will receive the following insights:

• Market assessment based on input from leading roaming and wholesale vendors including Cellusys, Mobileum, TOMIA, Telcovas, TNS, Tata Communications and others.
• Feedback from 68 MNOs surveyed in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026 on SoR priorities and market challenges, QoS-based steering outlook, investment and innovation outlook for SoR in 2026.
• A list of emerging wants and needs among operators, latest developments and innovation aggregated from several SoR solution vendors who participated in Kaleido's SoR vendor hub research.
• Overview of recent and increasingly relevant product trends in SoR, based on developments over four key innovation areas including slicing, 5G & IoT readiness, AI utilisation, as well as analytics and quality-based steering.
• The benefits, scope, and impact of key innovation domains, supported by Impact Scores to clarify their significance.

Clients with access to our Data Hub will receive full roaming data metrics, including forecasts for 110+ global roaming markets and 222 travel markets, totalling over 500,000 data points.  

Clients with access to Kaleido’s Vendor Hub will receive full details on leading roaming VAS and SoR vendors to aid any RFP/RFQs.

Members will be able to access the research directly.

For more information on accessing this research, or having membership access, please contact [email protected].