AI Infrastructure

The head of China Telecom said in a keynote speech at MWC 2026 that the carrier is advancing its strategy of “cloudification, digital transformation and AI for good” In sum …

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 …

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 …

As AI workloads move from training to real-world inference, Arrcus CEO says, network fabrics must evolve to keep up with the demands At Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Arrcus outlined how …

As AI data centers strain land and power resources, hollow core fiber could enable a geographically distributed infrastructure. As the AI race continues to heat up, hollow core fiber (HCF) …

The CEO of Qualcomm told MWC that connectivity will remain the foundation of 6G networks, but its design priorities will evolve as AI becomes central to digital services and mobile …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Morgan Lewis’ Andrew Lipman surfaces the top trends to watch in 2026 at Metro Connect With the show floor packed with fiber connectivity players, data center providers, and software folks …

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 …

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 …

Under the ATHENA architecture, SK Telecom plans to gradually apply AI- and cloud-based automation across all network layers In sum – what to know: 6G roadmap – SK Telecom’s ATHENA …

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 …

Nokia also estimates that AI could represent 30% of all global traffic In sum – what to know: A new traffic wave – Unlike video or SaaS, AI generates compounding …

AI has entered a new phase. The race is no longer about smarter models or more GPUs. It’s about infrastructure. Power, networking, data readiness, governance and cost are now the real …

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 …

DT and Nvidia jointly funded the Industrial AI Cloud, Europe’s most ambitious sovereign AI facility In early February 2026, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO Tim Höttges stood inside a gutted bank vault …