Telecom news, 5G and AI infrastructure

Panel maps the 6G path from standalone 5G to agentic AI cores In sum – what we know: 6G has started moving from vision to engineering, and with it comes …

Speaking at RCR Wireless News’ 6G Forum 2026, Stéphane Téral, founder and chief analyst at Téral Research, said the standardization process was moving toward evaluation and consensus building In sum …

Ericsson chief Per Narvinger has defended the firm’s custom silicon strategy for AI RAN, quite robustly, citing immediate opportunities and 10% spectrum-efficiency gains, and future options for GPU adoption too. …

AI is shifting from training to inference, and two pressures now define the business: the end-user experience and the return on investment. RCR’s AI Infrastructure Forum returns to ask: can …

Plume has rebuilt its architecture, embraced industry standards and launched an AI agent workspace, shifting from Wi-Fi optimization to ISP-wide intelligence. The bet: lower support costs, reduced churn and new …

CCS Insight, Qualcomm and Elveo on how satellite reaches commercial scale Non-terrestrial networks have moved from proprietary islands to early commercial direct-to-device services in dozens of countries in the space …

From RAN Simulation Digital Twins to the Self-Aware, Agentic RAN How VIAVI AI RAN Scenario Generator (AI RSG), App Twin ADK, Application Validation Engine (AVE), and Claude Accelerate AI-Native Networks …

Matthew Iji, head of data modelling and forecasting at GSMA Intelligence, told RCR that 6G will move from selective launches to global scale gradually, with coexistence rather than wholesale replacement …

Ericsson is ‘dissolving’ its enterprise wireless unit but keeping its private and neutral-host 5G portfolios, betting on R&D synergies and indoor connectivity, notably with Starlink-style satellite systems. But with Nokia’s …

Ericsson beat Q3 earnings forecasts on seven percent organic sales growth, but warned AI-driven component costs will pressure margins through 2027, and said growth remains hard to come by – …

From the newsletter (October 14; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): AT&T has agreed to sell its Mexican business for $2bn, ending a decade-long expansion abroad to focus …

In sum, what to know: –Machine learning and large language models could help operators connect messaging failures, service degradation and user experience — but only if they first solve the …

Kenneth Hwang, vice president of platforms and client solutions at Singtel, said the operator’s experience has shown that preparing for quantum threats requires years of work across infrastructure, software, vendors, …

The alliance is expanding its focus on AI RAN services while tackling workload placement, infrastructure sharing, and the commercial case for turning mobile networks into distributed AI platforms. In sum …

Nokia’s sale of its campus private 5G business to Aurelius includes its MPW platform but excludes its drone unit, it turns out. The latter is under strategic review, as the …

In this episode, Mike Maniscalco, CEO of QumulusAI, shares how his background as a computer scientist and software entrepreneur led him into AI infrastructure and ultimately to QumulusAI. Mike explains …

From the newsletter (October 13; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Nokia’s sale of its ECE business gives Aurelius a 1,000-person industrial networking operation to grow, while simplifying …

Agentic AI applications can move from a text prompt to live audio or uplink video in moments. As these experiences become more interactive and context-aware, the connectivity they need can …

Speaking at Deutsche Telekom’s AI Investor Day, Telekom Deutschland’s chief executive officer Rodrigo Diehl said that entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley had told the German telco that network performance was already …

AI-RAN now has measurable radio gains, but the investment case changes sharply with where capacity is constrained. Software on the installed RAN has the clearest near-term economics, while accelerated platforms …