The tower JV between TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone builds on a preliminary RAN sharing agreement signed earlier this year
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Up to 6,000 towers planned – TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone aim to expand...
AT&T said the solution combines its IoT core network with Cisco’s mobility services platform, allowing localized data routing, predictable performance, and secure connectivity for enterprise and industrial environments
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Edge AI moves into networks – AT&T...
As cellular IoT deployments grow from thousands to millions, the limits of hardware, not software, come into focus, writes IoT connectivity provider Onomondo. Until connectivity infrastructure evolves to adapt to constrained devices – rather than forcing them into legacy...
The partnership between Huawei and du also includes work on AI-based network management and automation to improve efficiency and spectrum utilization
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5G-A speed target – du and Huawei plan Phase-2 upgrades to deliver peak 10Gbps...
Jeff Heynen, VP at Dell’Oro Group, told RCR Wireless that cable infrastructure upgrades will play a central role in the recovery of the broadband access equipment market this year
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Market rebound – Broadband access...
Christel Heydemann, CEO at Orange Group, emphasized the company’s internal use of its own platforms
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Sovereign enterprise – Orange Business launched collaboration, AI, and voice solutions built on European infrastructure, targeting data control and regulatory...
The message from Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at GTC this week is that AI is no longer about models or chips alone, but about monetizing inference at scale – where tokens become the core unit of value, and data...
For Red Hat, the takeaway from this year’s MWC is clear: the telco to techco transformation is well underway
At MWC Barcelona, the “telco to techco” transformation felt less like a buzzword and more like a reality.
For those of you...
GlobalData told RCR Wireless News that despite high fiber penetration, growth will continue to be driven by network upgrades, premium high-speed plans, and the gradual migration away from legacy copper infrastructure
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Fiber growth offsets decline...
Nvidia’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure forecast set the tone at GTC yesterday, framing its AI-RAN partnerships with Nokia and T-Mobile (part of a $2tn industry) as a new frontier for low-latency inference at the edge.
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Robotics...
Wi-Fi 8 will support future networks as traffic shifts from human-initiated applications to machine-driven, agentic AI applications
Wi-Fi 8 is designed to build directly on the performance gains introduced with Wi-Fi 7. Extending them by delivering higher and more consistent...
Creator-led MVNOs highlight a new path for telecom growth, where community, identity and brand loyalty drive adoption more than price or coverage. Telecom tech company Circles says that by leveraging existing audiences and niche segments, operators can experiment with...
The 2Africa system, hit by the war in the Middle East, will be the largest subsea cable network ever built, spanning 45,000 kilometers
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Project halted – Work on the Persian Gulf portion of the cable...
‘Frontier’ telcos like Vodafone, AT&T, and Telefónica are deploying hundreds of AI agents across their operations, says Microsoft – to automate processes, accelerate sales, and drive a new kind of operational agility. It has a weeks–to-minutes use-case with Vodafone....
The eSIM is rapidly becoming the default across flagship smartphones, smart glasses, smart watches, and other companion devices. This is increasingly raising an important question, says telecom software provider Motive: are operators truly ready to offer and activate the...
Service assurance is officially graduating from an era of dashboards, tickets, and engineers scrambling to find what’s gone wrong to swift root cause analysis and proactive fixes
As AI moves deeper into the network stack, a burst of experimentation has...
Huawei is proposing a new method to evaluate service quality for AI applications called AI MOS, modeled after the Mean Opinion Score used to measure voice service quality
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Traffic shift ahead – Huawei expects AI...
One of the strategies announced by True centers on embedding AI across network operations, customer service, and internal systems
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Three-year plan – True Corporation has introduced “Four Big Moves” to shift from a traditional telecom...
The CEO of TIM outlined how the telecom sector’s priorities are shifting as new digital applications place different demands on networks
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AI is interconnected – TIM CEO Pietro Labriola told MWC that telecoms infrastructure, cloud...
Agentic AI, sustainability mandates, edge-native infrastructure, and AI-augmented workforces are reshaping how operators run networks and serve customers, says enterprise software company IFS.
In recent years, the industry has undergone significant changes, whether in network services, infrastructure, or regulations. 2026...
The new Telco AI Cloud architecture integrates large-scale GPU data centers with edge AI-RAN
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Technical architecture - Combines large-scale GPU data centers for training with edge AI-RAN for real-time inference, managed by Infrinia AI Cloud OS.
AITRAS...
As AI workloads splinter across the fragmented cloud-infrastructure landspace, enterprises are scrambling to keep performance, governance, and costs in check. Equinix reckons the answer is in neutral interconnection hubs that simplify last-mile access, orchestrate distributed infrastructure, and bring inference...
EXFO’s Olivier Côté digs into testing challenges — and outlines how methods are evolving to accommodate hollow core fiber's physical peculiarities
One of hottest trends coming out of the optical fiber industry today is hollow core fiber (HCF).
HCF had a...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a foundational capability for telecommunications operators, shaping network operations, service delivery, customer experience, and national digital competitiveness. As AI becomes central to economic growth and critical infrastructure, telecom operators must adopt AI in a...
As AI adoption accelerates, telecom operators have a chance to claim a central role in the AI economy, says Spirent (now part of Keysight). To seize it, they must move beyond connectivity and deliver trusted, high-performance AI infrastructure and...
