The mobile industry is about to enter a period of innovation that will require investment to achieve the necessary economies of scale, said chairman and CEO of Telecom Italia and GSMA chairman Franco Bernabe at last month’s GSMA Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai. “We are at the verge of a new wave of innovation and its enablement requires significant investments,” he said in his keynote presentation, adding that Asia – and China in particular – is well placed to play a major role in this innovation due to its “human potential”.