The GLF is a membership organisation that provides a single voice to the broader digital ecosystem, ensuring alignment amongst international connectivity leaders for industry transformation. Our mission is to provide leadership to the industry that is #KeepingTheWorldConnected based on the principles of interoperability, connectivity, and value creation.
The GLF Community represents the ecosystem of companies, partners and industries that underpin global digital infrastructure. The aim is to facilitate an open dialogue amongst the C-Levels of the leading global ICT ecosystem players to advance technical and commercial interoperability as an enabler for future connected businesses, societies and economies.
The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) is a Board representing a global network of leaders from the world’s largest International Carriers, who convene to discuss strategic issues and to agree collaborative activities, with the aim of upholding the principle of interoperability and ubiquitous international and technological coverage.
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Tomorrow's Telco
The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) has released a collaboratively produced thought piece “Tomorrow’s Telco” that outlines a consensus view on network architecture, capabilities, and requirements needed to meet customer expectations and create value in the coming years. This thought piece has prompted the redesign of the GLF’s programmes and working groups in order to specify key areas for collaborative action and focus.

GLF Fraud Report 2022 and Carrier Code of Conduct Attestation against Fraud
The GLF has published its fifth annual report on international wholesale telecoms fraud. The report is prepared in order to measure the impact the global carrier community is having in their collective effort in reducing and eradicating fraud and it is one of the key priorities for the GLF to create a world that is free from fraud for the benefit of not only the industry, but the wider society. This year, we have also published the names of the organisations that had been attested as being compliant with the GLF Code of Conduct to prevent fraud in international telecommunications for the second year.

GLF elects Obaid Rahman of Axiata as Vice Chair of the Board
The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) announced that its members have elected Obaid Rahman, Head of Wholesale at Axiata Group as the Vice Chair of the GLF Board.