Mobile operators have been criticised by some for their slow response to the cloud but, for the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, the cloud represents a new opportunity for MNOs to make the most of their assets and change their place in the value chain. In his keynote at Mobile World Congress this year, Rene Obermann strongly refuted any suggestion that operators would continue to provide the “dumb pipe” in a cloud world, saying that the more complex demands from different cloud services ranging from M2M to the “Internet of Things” will lead to a new way of evaluating connectivity.