Telco AI

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 …

The telecom industry says AI devices will overwhelm mobile uplinks and justify new spectrum and 6G investment. But beneath the forecasts, ratios and rhetoric, the evidence for an AI-driven radio …

Agentic AI is moving from research to implementation, with growing industry consensus that future mobile networks must become AI-native. The question now is whether operators will embrace the architectural changes …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Strong quarterly results from Verizon reinforce a broader shift across US telecoms: after years of heavy investment, mobile telcos are growing …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): AT&T’s AI strategy suggests the real breakthrough is not bigger language models, but smarter orchestration. As inference becomes a network workload, …

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, …

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 …

Blue Planet’s new configuration management platform is puzzle-piece in the autonomous-networks jigsaw – which is also a part of the big telco story about reliability and trust. As telcos grow …

Operators must move beyond basic human-in-the-loop assistance to embed agentic AI across their digital core systems, build invisible self-healing networks, unlock billions in value, and define next-generation connectivity – writes …

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 …

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 — …

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 …

One year after the reintroduction of the ANDREW brand to the market—now part of Amphenol—the company is sharpening its role in an industry facing a new set of realities. In …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Telecom operators are embracing AI through tightly governed, domain-specific deployments, focusing on bounded autonomy rather than full automation. The emerging model …

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 …

From the newsletter: AI agents in telecoms is sharpening focus on governance, controlled autonomy and human oversight, while momentum in private 5G and industrial AI continues to build through new …

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 …

At DTW Ignite, Cyient stressed the continuum between network engineering, data foundation and cognitive operations that will drive autonomy, efficiency and growth Across the telecoms industry, the language of AI-augmented …

AI is pushing telcos beyond network autonomy and into a new era of business intelligence. Working with operators worldwide, Wipro explains how the industry’s next transformation will create intelligent, adaptive …

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 …

Autonomous networks vary by operational domain, with progress determined less by technology than by data quality, integration readiness and governance foundations. Nemanja Prekovic, head of delivery TMT at Avenga, explains. …

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 …

Telco vendors are rushing agentic AI into OSS and BSS stacks – hard, at DTW Ignite this week. Nokia has just announced work with AWS and Databricks to build the …

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 …