The company’s Q3 earnings show AI boom pushing up demand for semiconductor test equipment
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Strong Q3 showing: Advantest posts record quarterly sales amid soaring AI chip demand
AI drives growth: The company says strong market demand...
I saw this headline today: Amazon launched its “AWS European Sovereign cloud” with its first region in Brandenburg, Germany. I had to chuckle at the absurdity of the focus on local staffing, as if a local technician’s paycheck is...
Folding smartphones have been around for many years and are almost on the verge of becoming mainstream. But what these foldable screens mean for laptops was not clear. But thanks to some bold steps taken by PC market leader...
Nokia saw net sales rise by three percent last quarter and two percent in the whole of last year, even as margins slipped, partly because of investments and restructuring. Revenue growth came mostly from strong fiber-optic and data center...
The deployment will support growing demand for cloud services, AI-driven workloads, and high-speed connectivity across the Indo-Pacific
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Pacific upgrades – TPN is deploying Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme and RLS platforms to boost capacity, efficiency, and...
SoftBank and Ericsson said that 5G downlink throughput improved by approximately 24% with the deployment
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AI optimization – The system automatically adapts massive MIMO beam patterns based on real-time user distribution, delivering a 24% increase...
Virgin Media O2 launched its 5G SA network in February 2024
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5G SA rollout in Dorset – The Dorset rollout brings Virgin Media O2’s total 5G SA coverage to over 500 sites across the U.K.,...
Scientists worry that Leo's high reflectivity can pose a problem for astronomical studies
If you look up in the night sky, you can see satellites with bare eyes. That fascinating phenomenon now has become a cause of worry for the...
AI-native air interfaces could play a major role in 6G
When people talk about AI in telecommunications, the conversation usually gravitates toward network management, whether it AI handling traffic flows, making routing decisions, or allocating resources more intelligently. These are...
AT&T reported strong fourth-quarter and full-year results, meeting or exceeding its 2025 guidance as it doubled down on fiber and 5G expansion with deals for Lumen and EchoStar assets, plus sharpened its focus on higher-margin enterprise services, and restructured...
The 6G air interface is being purposefully designed to unlock more value from spectrum for all
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Giga-MIMO unlocks wideband channels in upper-midband spectrum for wide-area coverage with high throughput.
Subband full duplex (SBFD) increases uplink duty cycles, reduces uplink and...
The new air-to-ground communication system is designed to deliver 5G connectivity from a HAPS aircraft in stratosphere for improved maritime intelligence
Airspan teams up with Space Compass: The companies are designing a system that will deliver 5G connectivity from...
Experts believe that digital twins have the potential to revolutionize mobile networks, and will play a critical role in amping 6G’s performance
A digital twin is a virtual rendering of a physical or digital object, so accurate that it...
BSNL already deployed 98,000 4G sites across the Asian nation
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22,000 new 4G sites – The Indian government is considering an additional BSNL 4G expansion, with final technical specifications still being processed before a fresh...
Dell’Oro noted that RAN spending is expected to remain subdued until 6G-related capex gradually ramps up toward the end of the decade
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RAN market stabilizing post-5G peak – After shedding nearly $10 billion in revenue...
At PTC’26 in Hawaii, a panel of hyperscale and wholesale operators comprising Google, Meta, EXA, and SCCN dissected the mounting pressures on Atlantic subsea infrastructure. With spiralling AI traffic, impending end-of-life systems, and hyperscalers dominating new builds, the industry...
In this episode, Robert Bye, Founder and President of Zenture Partners, unpacks why enterprise telecom remains stuck in a reactive, spreadsheet-driven world and how his company is using data, automation, and AI to change that. With a background spanning...
Major ecosystem overhaul replaces Gold status with new tiers and unified incentives to drive AI readiness.
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The new program - Cisco 360 Partner Program has officially launched, replacing a 25-year-old framework to consolidate programs and drive...
From historic AI spendings to ambitious 6G roadmaps, test and measurement players are setting sights on some of the biggest trends of 2026
The top technology trends of 2026 are not isolated events — but tightly interwoven themes representing a...
NEC plans an initial Japan launch in early fiscal 2026, followed by international versions later in the year
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Throughput and efficiency gains – NEC’s new massive MIMO RU delivers up to 54% downlink and 48%...
Entel said the added capacity will support use cases that depend on low latency and high reliability, including telemedicine, connected education, and industrial automation
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Up to 100 MHz activated – Entel increased its usable 5G...
As AI workloads move from centralised training to distributed inference, the industry’s infrastructure challenge is changing shape. Power and land matter, but Nvidia, SUBCO, and Zayo – on a panel at PTC'26 – argue that connectivity, latency, and scale...
January 27, 2026 - RCR Wireless News has announced the launch of the Defense Communications Forum, a new event dedicated to addressing the evolving communications challenges defense organizations face as they modernize critical infrastructure.
Defense and goverment agencies worldwide are...
The demonstration shows live delivery of television content and added services to Motorola smartphones
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5G Broadcast PoC: R&S, Qualcomm and Motorola showcased a proof of concept (PoC) of 5G Broadcast at the SET Expo 2025...
Open RAN promises innovation and freedom, but only if performance, timing, and security work flawlessly together.
Join experts Owen O’Donnell, Wireless Product Marketing Manager at VIAVI and Paul Norris, Strategic Account Director at Calnex Solutions to learn how the strategic...
