T-Mobile US signed off another good quarter with some fighting talk about acquisition strategies and accounting habits at rivals AT&T and Verizon, and said its 5G network and compute build-out …
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.
-
-
Strong growth and raised guidance sit alongside major AI work at Verizon, about to be unveiled with a brand new AI tech stack to drive further network automation and customer …
-
Colin Bannon, chief tech officer at BT Business, reframed the sovereignty debate at FutureNet World in London last week: data sovereignty is largely secured, tech sovereignty is unrealistic, and operational …
-
Modest top-line growth in the first quarter masks a more dramatic shift at Nokia, where a surge in optical networking for AI infrastructure is reshaping its revenue mix. In line …
-
Debate at FutureNet World shifted from strategy to execution, as telcos BT and Orange outlined platform-led, partner-driven models, while Telus and Rakuten pressed for faster moves into AI-led solutions and …
-
At FutureNet World, Rakuten and Telus pushed for bold AI-led reinvention, while BT and Orange argued for a measured platform-driven evolution. But beneath the contrast, a shared strategy is taking …
-
Physical AI for robot automation in factories and plants requires lightweight maths models, not token-hungry language models, says NTT Data. It does not have to wait on expensive GPUs, when …
-
Ericsson is sticking to what it knows: 5G, public and private, and APIs, to expose 5G capabilities to developers and enterprises; it offers more coherent longer-term diversification, it implies, than …
-
Ericsson saw 6% organic growth in Q1 2026, but slumped 10% in real terms with currency swings, divestment costs, and higher AI chip prices – causing it to miss targets. …
-
Industrial humanoid robots and physical AI are moving from pilot to production – as Siemens, Nvidia, and lots of private 5G providers (including Nokia) roll up to Hannover Messe. In …
-
Private networks are not a niche, says Ericsson; they are the route to new markets, new buyers, and a third growth engine beyond the industry’s cyclical capex grind. Åsa Tamsons, …
-
Amazon has agreed a $11.5 billion deal to buy satellite company Globalstar to add scale, spectrum, and services to its fledgling Leo proposition; it has also extended a satellite airtime …
-
Lumen chief executive Kate Johnson has penned an open letter to enterprise CEOs (and the whole telecoms industry): that there is a golden opportunity to connect the AI revolution, but …
-
A new partnership between InfiniG and Nokia upgrades in-building neutral-host coverage to ‘carrier-class’ standards while quietly positioning enterprise networks for AI-driven RAN innovation – which ties to both the Finnish …
-
AT&T is positioning private 5G as a necessary enterprise capability rather than a breakout revenue engine, tying its future instead to edge AI, spectrum pragmatism, and a broader “AI grid” …
-
AT&T has clarified its emerging AI “grid” and IoT strategy, combining regional inference, cloud platforms, and private 5G to target enterprise use cases while testing where edge AI delivers most …
-
Bain & Company warns that traditional industrial control systems are losing their central role as AI and smart devices redefine the economic landscape. By 2030, software, AI workflows, and intelligent …
-
Final word on this fascinating Nokia narrative, this time from the independent analyst community – about how the Finnish firm is losing a little to Ericsson in its 5G heartlands, …
-
Final word on this fascinating Nokia narrative, this time from the independent analyst community – about how the Finnish firm is losing a little to Ericsson in its 5G heartlands, …
-
Industrial giants and telecom vendors are pushing hard on private 5G – Siemens has expanded globally into North America, Nokia is continuing to land mission-critical enterprise deals, and a new …
-
Ericsson has emerged as “the primary RAN partner” to Virgin Media O2 in the UK, expanding its footprint in a major national 5G SA upgrade project that appears to come …
-
HPE reinforced the telco shift at MWC: the urgent mid-gen upgrade of fiber interconnect and longhaul networks for the AI era, plus the edge inference agenda just coming on-stream – …
-
Aurora Networks, under rebranded parent Vistance Networks, has upgraded Vodafone’s broadband network in Germany with Remote PHY, DAA, and virtual CMTS technologies – for improved AI-friendly last-mile connectivity. In sum …
-
Coherent optics, photonic line systems, and software agents are helping cloud providers and telco companies to manage the explosive AI workload demands on fiber networks – across cutting-edge interconnect systems, …
-
The tech is not the story (stupid!), says Siemens; it is a part of a solution, of course – just like IoT, and just like AI. Industrial enterprises have their …