Telecom has a value capture problem, the chief executive of Paradise Mobile said at the inaugural Mobile Network Innovation Summit in England.

Sitting on a panel with industry players such as Nick Kingsbury, a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners and Peter Marshall of Joiner Platform, Sam Tabbara said for too long the industry has relied on vendor road maps as a proxy for innovation.

“At Paradise, we have broken that cycle,” he said. “By building a fully cloud-native, AI-native network from day one, we aren’t just carrying the traffic: we are participating in the value being created on top of it.”

Mr Tabbara joined industry leaders, investors and operators at Allianz Stadium in Twickenham to discuss the urgent evolution of the mobile sector.

The session, moderated by Gabriel Brown, senior principal analyst at Omdia, focused on where value creation is heading in an industry increasingly defined by AI and software-driven infrastructure.

Mr Tabbara said the telecom industry is at a critical transition point.

“While traditional operators have historically struggled to capture the value of the traffic they carry, Paradise Mobile’s greenfield thinking is setting the company apart from the traditional telcos by proving that agility and engineering-led culture are the new currencies of success,” he said.

The panel highlighted several key themes that align with Paradise Mobile’s disruptive mission: the shift to intelligence, engineering over integration, reclaiming innovation by building software-driven architectures and speed as a strategy.

Paradise Mobile said that by contributing to these high-level global conversations, it continues to put Bermuda on the map as a global hub for digital infrastructure and innovation.