AT&T is stripping out its legacy copper network and making fiber and wireless the core of its business – with a converged service, enterprise push, and adjacent satellite integration all …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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Nokia’s new Cognitive Operations edge-compute platform for the mining sector, initially, looks familiar, and raises questions about the sale of its ECE business and its retreat from the ‘campus’ end …
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AT&T is adding Amazon Leo to its enterprise connectivity mix as satellite moves deeper into terrestrial networks – and European operators eye D2D spectrum and US regulators push to expand …
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New executive appointments by Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US – plus Nokia and Orange as recent examples – show how the telecoms, tech, and industrial sectors are converging as a …
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Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have deployed a private 5G network at Hamburg’s Container Terminal Altenwerder, the latest chapter in a seven-year cellular experiment that shows how industrial 5G is a …
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VodafoneThree has launched a portfolio of ‘fast-track’ 5G 5G SA slicing services in the UK for consumers and enterprises, alongside a new internet television service. Slicing portfolio – Branded as …
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Softbank’s latest HAPS trial suggests the stratosphere could become more than a way to fill coverage gaps – potentially combining wide-area cellular, private networks, drones, and edge computing in one …
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Lumen sees the biggest AI networking opportunity between data centers and AI factories, but admits inference will also spread to the edge, leaving the future balance between east-west and north-south …
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Celona chief Rajeev Shah tells RCR that its new converged two-fer private 5G/Wi-Fi solution, propped up on agentic AI, properly opens the door for physical AI in Industry 4.0 – …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): America’s AI infrastructure boom is creating an unexpected bottleneck: the people needed to build it. Data centers are competing with broadband …
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Lumen is rebuilding around AI, pairing a vast US fiber footprint with programmable networking through Alkira. The bet is that enterprise connectivity is moving from connecting sites to connecting clouds, …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Telco integration is back in fashion (again), from satellite and terrestrial networks to private 5G and Wi-Fi. Mostly, it is an …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Open RAN is evolving from a promise of supplier diversity toward a more pragmatic focus on interface standardization, as operators weigh …
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Celona is folding Wi-Fi 7, private 5G, public cellular and satellite into one AI-managed platform, targeting the complexity, cost and device shortages that have held back enterprise wireless adoption. In …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Lumen is betting that AI-driven connectivity will reward a different telco model: less legacy network, more fiber, software and control, with …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Private 5G is maturing, clearly, and the market is changing shape: Nokia is in retreat, slipping to fourth in the rankings, …
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Blue Planet’s configuration management platform is only the starting point. As telcos pursue autonomous networks, the challenge is not simply deploying AI agents, but giving them the data, context and …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): APAC telcos are accelerating into the AI infrastructure market, building sovereign compute platforms alongside global technology partners – with initiatives from …
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A day (or two) after SpaceX talked about plans for a terrestrial Starlink mobile network, analysts have started to debate whether Musk is building a fourth US carrier, optimising satellite …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Elon Musk has set his sights on the US mobile market with a cost-effective Starlink-powered terrestrial network, with talk about small …
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SpaceX has spoken for the first time about its plans for a terrestrial mobile network to work with its satellite D2D service to rival AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon – including …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Some fairly routine industry updates on Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, 5G rankings, and telecom-related M&A, plus a bigger story – about how cheap …
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Cheap drone warfare has changed military strategy, and governments want cheaper anti-drone detection to keep pace. 6G-native ISAC has been rushed into late 5G-era networks in response. Ericsson Federal explains …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Different moves from Liberty Global and Vodafone, the NTIA and AT&T, NTT Docomo and Ericsson, plus TIM, show how telcos are …
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From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): AI infrastructure is opening new opportunities for telcos, from data center connectivity to sovereign AI and defense networks. But the payoff …