Fundamentals

The WBA says 81% of industry executives surveyed plan to deploy Wi-Fi OpenRoaming According to the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) Industry Report 2025, adoption of OpenRoaming is moving from pilot …

Google researchers looked at how much energy, water and carbon emissions that a run-of-the-mill Gemini text query generates It has become conventional wisdom that using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT …

Private 5G is gaining traction globally, with deployments from Tesla to Sinopec showing measurable productivity, safety, and efficiency gains, reinforcing forecasts of rapid market growth and momentum toward mainstream industrial …

More tales of the rising momentum in the private networks market: BSNL has teed-up Numaligarh Refinery Limited in India, Nokia is supplying GSM-R (actually on 2G, with a 4G/5G evolution …

Given the enormous sums in play, it sounds churlish – even tone-deaf – to say the AI industry is somehow misunderstood. But something doesn’t add up, and often it’s the …

We’re calling it. The private 5G race is properly on. A couple of recent flagship deals – Verizon at Thames Freeport on the Thames Estuary, Tampnet with Aker BP in …

Neoclouds aim to bridge a gap between centralized hyperscale clouds and highly distributed telecom networks As telecom operators face mounting infrastructure demands — from AI workloads to cloud-native 5G networks …

SGP.32 promises to untangle IoT’s complex eSIM provisioning challenges — but its implementation remains a tough nut for the industry to crack (and just to explain). In sum – what …

ISAC leverages radio signals and infrastructure of mobile networks to detect, locate and interpret objects in the environment As the industry explores what 6G will look like, one of the …

Challenges in Open RAN testing include inconsistent output from OTICs, according to industry experts It has been nearly a decade since the telecom industry began its concerted push toward Open …

New report from Deloitte highlights the major challenges facing expansion of data center and power infrastructure The power needs for data centers, particularly those designed for artificial intelligence computing, are …

SGP.32 introduces a streamlined eSIM architecture for IoT, enabling global, zero-touch provisioning. It reduces complexity, boosts flexibility, and shifts power dynamics all over the place. Here’s the skinny… Note, this …

When it comes to network impacts of gen AI, watch the uplink: Ericsson Mobility Report Artificial intelligence, and generative AI in particular, is causing a “fundamental shift” in the nature …

Cloud-native networks may help operators minimize energy use, reduce carbon footprints and lower costs Cloud-native architectures are reshaping telecom networks, often spotlighted for their agility, speed to market and operational …

In neutral-host private networks, testing and integration are particularly important There are a number of network testing challenges that are evident at the halfway point of the 5G era—most prominently, …

FWA services have been a success. What has that meant for testing? One clear success for 5G thus far has been the emergence of 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband services, …

What do modern network test and assurance tools and strategies need to look like, to satisfy operator needs and provide a positive user experience? Complexity is one of the fundamental …

SK Telecom, South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, is making significant strides in AI infrastructure to position itself as a global powerhouse Through its comprehensive “AI Infrastructure Superhighway” and “AI Pyramid …

The Stargate AI project is one of the most ambitious infrastructure initiatives ever launched to support AI Spearheaded by a powerful group of technology and investment firms, this massive project …

As AI becomes more embedded in our daily lives, supporting infrastructure must evolve to meet the surging demands. While GPUs and data center design often attract the attention, networking is …

In telecom, ‘AI RAN’ and ‘AI in the RAN’ (AI in RAN) refer to the same concept, effectively: the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into radio access network (RAN) infrastructure. …

The European Union has unveiled an ambitious new plan dubbed InvestAI, part of which includes the buildout of large-scale AI gigafactories At the AI Action Summit in Paris, European Commission …