It is with great pleasure that I present this special edition of Trends in Telecommunication Reform released on the occasion of the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) 2014. Since the first edition appeared more than a decade ago, Trends has documented “and in many cases predicted” a truly amazing era of technological advancement and market change in the global telecommunication sector. The world’s developing economies have been pioneers of much of this change “this edition’s chapter on digital transactions provides just one example” and certainly they have had much to do with the mobile service revolution that has defined our times. Trends has been there to help make sense of the rapid evolution of information and communications technologies (ICTs), focusing on the major actors and impacts across the globe.