U Mobile said its 5G rollout is targeting 80% population coverage by the second half of 2026
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Three-year wholesale agreement – U Mobile will provide 5G MOCN services to Telekom Malaysia, covering provisioning, integration, and...
MasOrange evaluated bids from several vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE, and Mavenir
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Unified 5G SA core deployment – MasOrange will replace dual legacy cores with a single Ericsson-supplied 5G SA core under a six-year...
The acquisitions of UScellular and Cox Communications largely spell the end of the medium-sized carrier
There are no more medium-sized wireless carriers and soon, there will no longer be any medium-sized cable companies. Also, the number of telcos of medium...
As the industry gears up for its biggest annual show at MWC, it is (perhaps) worth looking back at another major 2026 telco gathering: PTC in Hawaii in January. Once a regional telecom meet, PTC has evolved into a...
The WBA argues that AI and ML are becoming foundational to Wi-Fi operations as network complexity grows
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Frameworks, not algorithms - A new Wireless Broadband Alliance report argues the success of AI-driven Wi-Fi depends on...
Q-Day, the moment quantum machines can break today’s cryptography, is moving from theory into telecom planning cycles. RSA. ECC. Authentication systems. SIM security. Identity management. All at risk.
For CSPs, this is not a future problem. Encrypted traffic captured today...
Europe’s five biggest mobile operators – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, and Vodafone Group – are building a pan-European “federated edge continuum”, stitching together their national edge assets into a single regional platform. But what is a federated edge...
From air-interface foundations to AI-native services, Qualcomm's MWC technology demonstrations show how they are engineering 6G for intelligence and efficiency
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As 3GPP’s 6G study activities define requirements, KPIs and evaluation approaches, 6G systems are moving from concept...
Agentic and generative AI applications and workloads are testing the limits of legacy connectivity infrastructure from edge to cloud. The explosion of data and telemetry that feeds underlying large and small language models across domains – for training and...
The setup combined FDD and TDD single user MIMO under 3GPP Release 17 specifications
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Uplink milestone – The companies achieved 682 Mbps on a live 5G SA network in Queensland, up from 516 Mbps recorded...
AT&T Fiber has received Ookla’s first-ever Best Home Internet award in the United States
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Strategy validated – AT&T said Ookla’s first-ever Best Home Internet award confirms its existing fiber expansion approach rather than signaling...
Network capacity will be required to double in the next few years in order to cope with 5G adoption and AI demand, reckons American Tower – as its revenues rise on new 5G infrastructure investments
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In this episode, Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank, shares how he has helped transform a six–data center platform into one of the largest and most geographically diverse data center operators in the United States. With three decades in digital...
The collaboration focuses on integrating updated processing platforms into Orange’s network infrastructure
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More sites – Following pilot projects that have been underway since 2023, Samsung and Orange announced plans to extend the number of vRAN...
After some years of caution and pilots, US manufacturing giant Cargill has scaled private 5G to 50 sites in just six months with NTT Data and Celona – reframing the technology not as a single-use Industry 4.0 fix, but...
AI is becoming a key part of how modern telecom networks work—especially with 5G and upcoming 6G. Instead of just helping with small tasks, AI is now being built into the core of the network, making smart decisions in...
Under the ATHENA architecture, SK Telecom plans to gradually apply AI- and cloud-based automation across all network layers
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6G roadmap – SK Telecom’s ATHENA paper outlines its post-2030 network evolution strategy, continuing a 6G series...
How is AI reshaping modern network infrastructure? And what role can Europe play?
It’s no secret that there’s been a steep rise in data generation, driven largely by the growth in connected devices, cloud computing, digital services, and new AI...
As well as Rakuten Mobile, KDDI has started to deploy open vRAN, and SoftBank is also interested – says Omdia
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Leading APAC – Japan is Asia-Pacific’s leading Open vRAN market, with Rakuten operating the largest...
Pre-MWC, Telefónica has detailed advances in AI-driven network automation and enterprise edge. It has 12 level-4 autonomous use cases across Spain, Germany and Brazil (targeting level 4 across its operations by 2030), and has partnered Mavenir on core AI,...
According to Telefónica's Alex Harmand, agentic AI changes how network APIs generate revenue by shifting pricing away from individual API calls
Telefónica and Nokia have recently collaborated to test how AI software agents could support the use of network APIs,...
From real-time 5G slice validation to next-gen AI RAN software, Ericsson has highlighted a number of innovations ahead of MWC – spanning network performance, autonomous operations, and 6G readiness; with collaborations from Ookla, Apple, MediaTek, Swisscom, and Mistral AI.
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During the tests, Samsung and KT said they recorded peak downlink speeds of up to 3 Gbps in the 7 GHz band using X-MIMO
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3 Gbps at 7 GHz – Field testing using X-MIMO delivered...
Richard Gilhooley, director of public affairs at Telus, told RCR Wireless News that the telco's 5G coverage currently reaches 90% of the country's population
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90% coverage – Telus says its 5G network already reaches 90%...
Could AI dramatically change how DSS works?
Radio spectrum is pricey. Operators drop billions at auction to lock down licensed frequency bands, and every single frequency counts. Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) was built to address exactly this, enabling new technological...
