T-Mobile and its majority shareholder Deutsche Telekom are bringing some much-needed innovation to the telco sector’s more recent pet project: application programming interfaces (APIs). The pair are hosting a global API competition, which should bring more developer interest to the area. Many operators’ hopes are pinned on network APIs, in fact they have been pitched as the salvation of the sector. This is because they can allow developers the opportunity to create applications that will interact with and monetize networks. The use of APIs is not new; they have been in action for at least 10 years, but the desire to collate a framework of common APIs has been having more success in the last 18 months. The latest iteration of…