The esports organisation, which commands roughly 55 million followers and more than 600 million views per month across its platforms, argues that the infrastructure now exists to host world-class tournaments anywhere from airports to motorsport fan zones, provided operators deploy the right tools.

The case was made convincingly at MWC Doha 2025, where Veloce partnered with GSMA Fusion to run four live Formula 1 racing simulators over Ooredoo’s 5G Standalone network. The results were striking: end-to-end latency of just 7 milliseconds, download speeds of approximately 1 Gbps, and stable, jitter-free connectivity throughout. The event marked what the group describes as the first fully live competitive esports competition staged on a public commercial 5G network.

Veloce is now pressing operators across eleven priority markets, including the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, India and the UAE to make programmable Quality on Demand APIs available for gaming use.

These standardised tools, developed under GSMA’s Open Gateway framework, would allow tournament organisers, game publishers and broadcasters to guarantee consistent network performance without requiring bespoke arrangements with individual operators.

The group’s requirements are specific: sub-10 millisecond latency, near-zero jitter, guaranteed high throughput for cloud gaming and live broadcast, and the ability to separate network traffic across gameplay, voice, player inputs and production uplinks simultaneously.

Beyond competitive play, Veloce highlights the surging demand for live “in real life” streaming, a format requiring sustained high-definition video uplink from public venues. The company notes that creators within its network are already expanding into the space, placing fresh pressure on mobile bandwidth.

With mobile gaming forecast to exceed $122 billion in annual revenue by 2026, Veloce warns that the window for operators to establish themselves as foundational partners to the esports industry is open but will not remain so indefinitely.

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