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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.

  • Physical AI, without the theatre – Siemens finds its private 5G groove

    by James Blackman March 20, 2026
    by James Blackman March 20, 2026

    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 …

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  • Agents, inference and token economics – Nvidia pitches the AI future

    by James Blackman March 18, 2026
    by James Blackman March 18, 2026

    The message from Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at GTC this week is that AI is no longer about models or chips alone, but about monetizing inference at scale – where …

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  • Nvidia positions AI-RAN with Nokia, T-Mobile in (its) $1tn AI infrastructure market

    by James Blackman March 17, 2026
    by James Blackman March 17, 2026

    Nvidia’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure forecast set the tone at GTC yesterday, framing its AI-RAN partnerships with Nokia and T-Mobile (part of a $2tn industry) as a new frontier for low-latency …

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  • ‘Agility is money’, says Microsoft – as agents rewrite Vodafone B2B cycle

    by James Blackman March 16, 2026
    by James Blackman March 16, 2026

    ‘Frontier’ telcos like Vodafone, AT&T, and Telefónica are deploying hundreds of AI agents across their operations, says Microsoft – to automate processes, accelerate sales, and drive a new kind of …

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  • Agents of chaos – Equinix proposes metro fix for the new AI sprawl

    by James Blackman March 12, 2026
    by James Blackman March 12, 2026

    As AI workloads splinter across the fragmented cloud-infrastructure landspace, enterprises are scrambling to keep performance, governance, and costs in check. Equinix reckons the answer is in neutral interconnection hubs that …

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  • Ericsson draws channel closer – as private 5G jumps on physical AI

    by James Blackman March 11, 2026
    by James Blackman March 11, 2026

    Ericsson has new tie-ups with system integrators Future Technologies and NTT Data to combine private 5G and physical AI in Industry 4.0. Ericsson appears to be picking up where Nokia …

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  • ‘AI is the gas on the fire’ – Verizon on global fiber, metro access, private 5G

    by James Blackman March 10, 2026
    by James Blackman March 10, 2026

    Global, porgrammable, and dense – from cloud to edge; Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in …

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  • Ericsson plays long game as AI boosts ‘mid-cycle’ 5G pay-offs

    by James Blackman March 9, 2026
    by James Blackman March 9, 2026

    Ericsson’s networks chief Per Narvinger offered a measured view of AI’s impact on telecoms at MWC: fiber may lead the infrastructure boom today, but AI will also shift through the …

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  • Cisco rights the MWC narrative – fiber first, mobile later, as AI agents make minds race

    by James Blackman March 6, 2026
    by James Blackman March 6, 2026

    While most of the big talk at MWC is about 5G and 6G, the most urgent AI infrastructure work is with fibre-heavy data centre interconnects. Cisco, and certain others, are …

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  • AT&T builds out ‘connected AI’ strategy for industrial edge

    by James Blackman March 5, 2026
    by James Blackman March 5, 2026

    Partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and industrial IoT specialist Geoforce show how AT&T is positioning fibre, edge infrastructure, and enterprise connectivity to support AI workloads from data centre to factory …

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  • “Like a rocket ship” – Mimosa’s FWA carrier fix for the broadband boom

    by Mimosa Networks and RCR Wireless News Sponsored March 3, 2026
    by Mimosa Networks and RCR Wireless News Sponsored March 3, 2026

    As fixed wireless access gains fresh momentum worldwide, Mimosa Networks’ unlicensed-spectrum technology is emerging as a strategic complement to fibre and 5G – powering Reliance Jio’s surging AirFiber service and …

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  • AT&T combines with AWS in metro, Ericsson in RAN, Azure at edge

    by James Blackman March 3, 2026
    by James Blackman March 3, 2026

    AT&T is tightening its ties with hyperscale cloud partners as it readies its network for the AI era – embedding last-mile fiber and 5G directly into AWS environments, pushing AI …

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  • Verizon rejigs private 5G team; Nokia nears private 5G sale?

    by James Blackman March 3, 2026
    by James Blackman March 3, 2026

    Jennifer Artley, in charge of private 5G at Verizon Business has left. The news compounds unease in the market following Nokia’s decision to quit. Verizon Business remains focused, it says; …

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  • AI workloads require a total structural reset in networks, says Nokia

    by James Blackman March 2, 2026
    by James Blackman March 2, 2026

    AI is already a scaled, mobile-native workload, which is forcing networks to evolve from SLA-driven capacity models to deterministic, programmable architectures that connect data centres, transport, and the edge. So …

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  • “The dark days are over” — Lumen lights up new ‘AI corridors’

    by James Blackman February 27, 2026
    by James Blackman February 27, 2026

    Once in defensive mode and fighting decline, Lumen Technologies has re-emerged with a radically simplified strategy, a repaired balance sheet, and a bold claim to be critical infrastructure for the …

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  • Lessons from PTC, for MWC – talking telcos in the AI goldrush

    by James Blackman February 26, 2026
    by James Blackman February 26, 2026

    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 …

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  • What is a (regional) federated edge? Will the big Euro-MNO project fly?

    by James Blackman February 26, 2026
    by James Blackman February 26, 2026

    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 …

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  • Cargill’s 50-site surge shows private 5G is infrastructure – not experiment

    by James Blackman February 25, 2026
    by James Blackman February 25, 2026

    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 …

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  • Telefónica extends AI automation, expands enterprise edge

    by James Blackman February 24, 2026
    by James Blackman February 24, 2026

    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 …

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  • Ericsson update – network slicing, AI automation, 6G prototypes

    by James Blackman February 23, 2026
    by James Blackman February 23, 2026

    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 …

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  • A tale of two Vodafones – five private 5G takeaways (half-time at UPTIME)

    by James Blackman February 13, 2026
    by James Blackman February 13, 2026

    From global private-5G deployments at Vodafone Business to national spectrum policy gridlock at Vodafone Idea, plus the looming exit of Nokia, the private 5G market looks both more mature and …

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  • Vodafone on private 5G – 173 networks, 20 countries, 60% on site, new vendors coming

    by James Blackman February 12, 2026
    by James Blackman February 12, 2026

    At UPTIME, Vodafone Business detailed 173 live private 5G deployments in around 20 countries, and also signalled new vendor additions – likely including Ericsson, plus Celona, possibly, or another “enterprise-friendly” …

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  • Vodafone Idea flags integration gaps as India pushes telco-led private 5G

    by James Blackman February 12, 2026
    by James Blackman February 12, 2026

    Debate at the UPTIME forum today highlighted Asia Pacific’s fragmented regulatory and structural barriers for private 5G – in India, in particular, where Vodafone Idea argues IT/OT integration and use-case …

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  • Colt preps Middle East expansion as fiber demand accelerates

    by James Blackman February 11, 2026
    by James Blackman February 11, 2026

    Europe’s largest enterprise fibre provider will scale infrastructure and partner-led operations across the Middle East, positioning itself as a regional gateway – whilst also divesting non-AI data centres in Europe …

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  • AI data-center spend to hit $80bn by 2030 to escape power crunch

    by James Blackman February 10, 2026
    by James Blackman February 10, 2026

    Power scarcity and thermal limits are major challenges for the AI data center buildout, observes Dell’Oro Group – but that the industry is redesigning infrastructure, doubling down on cooling, and …

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