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...
AI's voracious appetite is straining energy grids, prompting new power strategies and longer planning horizons
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The gating factor: Power is now the biggest gating factor for AI infrastructure, with water to follow next.
Bring your own...
New alliance including AT&T and AMD aims to fix the reliability gap in telecom AI
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Open Telco AI - Global initiative announced at MWC 2026 to develop telco-grade artificial intelligence through open collaboration.
Founding partners - AT&T providing open models...
At the Autonomous Network Summit during MWC Barcelona 2026, Cyient outlined how autonomy is reshaping network operations for telcos
On the opening day of MWC in Barcelona, Cyient brought together industry leaders, operators, and technology experts to tackle one of...
Scindia noted that India had one of the fastest rollouts of 5G in the world, with 500,000 base stations already deployed in the country
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AI transforming networks – Scindia said the industry is entering an...
According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the spectrum auction sold most of the 597 megahertz of spectrum offered across multiple bands
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$507M raised in spectrum sale – Pakistan sold 480 megahertz of spectrum in...
Cyberattacks, outages, and AI-scale workloads are exposing the limits of legacy enterprise networks. As costs soar and threats evolve, IT services company Kyndryl says organizations must move beyond basic automation toward secure, AI-native infrastructure capable of autonomous operations, continuous...
Luma seeks to modernize traditional approaches to root cause analysis with a powerful combination of agentic and GenAI
The rapid advances in agentic AI has stirred strong interest among network and service assurance providers, many of whom, mired in slow,...
Ericsson has new tie-ups with system integrators Future Technologies and NTT Data to combine private 5G and physical AI in Industry 4.0. Ericsson appears to be picking up where Nokia has dropped off; Future Technologies is growing 35% per...
