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  • Ericsson named sole global tech partner in SK Telecom-led AI-RAN pilot

    by Christian de Looper August 7, 2026
    by Christian de Looper August 7, 2026

    Ericsson set to deploy AI-RAN at KG Mobility under South Korea’s AI Highway plan In sum – what we know: Ericsson has been named the sole global technology partner in an SK …

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  • SK Telecom’s A.X K2 is South Korea’s biggest bet yet on sovereign AI

    by Christian de Looper July 30, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 30, 2026

    A.X K2 packs 688 billion parameters and open weights In sum – what we know: SK Telecom has unveiled A.X K2, a 688-billion-parameter large language model that the company is positioning …

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  • AT&T says its network is already built for the agentic AI wave

    by Christian de Looper July 25, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 25, 2026

    AT&T is optimizing for upstream traffic, not download speeds In sum – what we know: AT&T is apparently prepared for the “agentic AI wave.” On AT&T’s Q2 2026 earnings call, …

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  • AT&T and Ericsson use network sensing to spot drones with ordinary 5G towers

    by Christian de Looper July 24, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 24, 2026

    Network sensing tracked an unconnected drone without radar In sum – what we know: AT&T and Ericsson have built a new drone-detection system that was shown off in a demo at AT&T …

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  • SoftBank is deploying OpenAI-powered security agents across Japan’s critical infrastructure

    by Christian de Looper July 16, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 16, 2026

    SoftBank’s “Patching as a Service” targets 3,000 government-designated companies In sum – what we know: SoftBank Group and its telecom arm SoftBank Corp. are rolling out “Patching as a Service,” an AI-powered …

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  • Nokia and Taiwan Mobile are building an AI-native 5G network

    by Christian de Looper July 15, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 15, 2026

    Nokia’s new deal leans on software, not just refreshed radios In sum – what we know: Nokia and Taiwan Mobile have signed a new agreement that extends their long-running 5G partnership — …

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  • Deutsche Telekom’s OpenAI partnership has scaled from pilot to full production

    by Christian de Looper July 14, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 14, 2026

    Deutsche Telekom now runs AI across live calls, networks, and 200,000 employees In sum – what we know: Deutsche Telekom’s collaboration with OpenAI has moved past the pilot stage. What was announced …

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  • NestAI and Nokia debut AI defense tech for denied battlefields

    by Christian de Looper July 10, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 10, 2026

    NestAI and Nokia fuse 5G, AI, and sensing for NATO forces In sum – what we know: Nokia Defense and Finnish AI lab NestAI have announced a set of new integrated operational …

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  • Samsung’s AI RAN optimizer boosts KDDI 5G speeds up to 52% in live trial

    by Christian de Looper July 3, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 3, 2026

    Real-time AI RAN tuning lifted peak downlink throughput 31% network-wide across Tokyo In sum – what we know: Samsung and KDDI have completed a months-long trial of Samsung’s AI-powered RAN …

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  • Tencent Cloud used AI agents for XLSMART migration

    by Christian de Looper July 1, 2026
    by Christian de Looper July 1, 2026

    Tencent Cloud claims zero downtime moving 1,200 microservices for XLSMART In sum – what we know: Tencent Cloud has completed a large-scale public cloud migration for Indonesian telecom operator XLSMART in 4.5 …

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  • Ericsson puts agentic AI at the core of its OSS/BSS operations

    by Christian de Looper June 26, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 26, 2026

    Ericsson’s architectural blueprint adds an agentic service experience layer In sum – what we know: Ericsson has put agentic AI at the center of its operations and business support stack …

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  • Nokia and Google Cloud are embedding Gemini AI agents into network operations software

    by Christian de Looper June 24, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 24, 2026

    Six specialized Nokia agents will roll out through 2027 In sum – what we know: Google Cloud and Nokia have expanded their partnership to push Gemini-powered AI agents directly into Nokia’s network …

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  • TelcoAgent grounds 5G network forecasting in 3GPP standards

    by Christian de Looper June 23, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 23, 2026

    TelcoAgent pairs zero-shot KPM forecasting with a 3GPP knowledge graph In sum – what we know: Telecom networks generate an enormous amount of operational data, and the people running them …

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  • Taara beams fiber-class data through the air to keep AI buildouts moving

    by Christian de Looper June 19, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 19, 2026

    Taara Beam swaps mechanical mirrors for a fingernail-sized photonic chip In sum – what we know: Fiber gets all the credit, and for good reason. It’s the backbone of global …

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  • SK Telecom wants to give every employee their own AI agent

    by Christian de Looper June 18, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 18, 2026

    SK Telecom’s AX Innovation 2.0 program treats AI agents as “digital employees” In sum – what we know: SK Telecom wants you to think of AI agents less as software …

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  • Ericsson puts AI inside the radio with its new software-only AI in RAN suite

    by Christian de Looper June 16, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 16, 2026

    Operators can switch on Ericsson’s AI models on existing AI-ready hardware In sum – what we know: Ericsson has launched a new software suite it calls “AI in RAN,” a …

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  • Nokia and Indosat lock in nationwide AI-RAN rollout in Indonesia

    by Christian de Looper June 12, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 12, 2026

    The Nvidia-powered AI-RAN deal moves the partners’ year-long collaboration to deployment In sum – what we know: Nokia and Indosat have signed a strategic network modernization and AI-RAN rollout agreement …

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  • T-Mobile’s Dynamic CX uses AI to anticipate network congestion before it hits

    by Christian de Looper June 10, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 10, 2026

    Dynamic CX layers predictive intelligence onto T-Mobile’s existing network to pre-position capacity In sum – what we know: T-Mobile has unveiled a new AI-powered network technology called Dynamic CX, timing the launch …

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  • AT&T frames satellite as filling the rural 1%, not eating telco margins

    by Christian de Looper June 9, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 9, 2026

    AT&T’s Pascal Desroches frames direct-to-device satellite as a complement to terrestrial networks In sum – what we know: AT&T’s CFO laid out the company’s satellite playbook days before Starlink’s parent …

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  • The case for defense 5G: borrowing commercial standards for the battlefield

    by Christian de Looper June 4, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 4, 2026

    Panelists argued defense 5G built on 3GPP standards offers speed, scale, and a path to reclaiming contested spectrum In sum – what we know: At the Defense Communications Forum, a …

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  • For defense connectivity, the hard problems are political, not technical

    by Christian de Looper June 1, 2026
    by Christian de Looper June 1, 2026

    Why trust, sovereignty, and clear demand signals matter more to defense connectivity than engineering in the 6G era How do you build a trusted and interoperable defense connectivity ecosystem? The …

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  • Defense network resilience is moving from redundancy to cognitive design

    by Christian de Looper May 29, 2026
    by Christian de Looper May 29, 2026

    Panelists say defense networks must assume day-one attack and lean on civilian infrastructure to stay up The definition of resilience in defense communications is shifting, and so is the way …

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  • SoftBank launches sovereign AI GPU cloud

    by Christian de Looper May 27, 2026
    by Christian de Looper May 27, 2026

    The Nvidia-powered service bundles SoftBank’s telecom edge network with central GPU data centers In sum – what we know: SoftBank has announced its “AI Data Center GPU Cloud,” a sovereign …

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  • Defense panel sketches what deployable edge AI and private 5G actually look like

    by Christian de Looper May 19, 2026
    by Christian de Looper May 19, 2026

    Operators, spectrum leads, and coalition partners weigh in on edge AI, survivability, and spectrum coordination At the Defense Communications Forum, a series of military operators, spectrum policy leads, and coalition …

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  • 5G and NTN convergence: NATO and the Army’s playbook

    by Christian de Looper May 19, 2026
    by Christian de Looper May 19, 2026

    Defense and industry leaders detail NTN standards progress, tactical use cases, and the security gaps still ahead The convergence of 5G and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) has moved well past the …

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