The telecommunications industry has made remarkable progress in expanding mobile infrastructure to support the demands of a hyper-connected world. Operators continue to invest heavily in network modernization, densification, and next-generation technologies to deliver faster speeds, lower latency, and greater...
Introduction
Energy efficiency has become one of the most pressing operational and sustainability challenges facing mobile network operators. With base stations accounting for approximately 73% of total network energy consumption, the pressure to reduce power draw, without sacrificing performance has...
The new tool is a single part of the operator’s grand plan to establish autonous networks with high levels of AI automation by 2030
In sum – what to know:
AI ops support – NOA assists engineers with troubleshooting, diagnostics, and...
As the industry's largest annual gathering for connectivity and telecommunications, MWC serves as a bellwether for where wireless technology is heading. Among the many themes on display at the 2026 event – from 6G visions to AI-powered networks –...
AI adoption in the telecom industry is accelerating rapidly, with AIOps and AI-RAN emerging as strategic priorities. Yet many telecom network operators remain stuck in AI pilot phases due to a lack of trust, fragmented data, operational readiness gaps...
Kannan Raj, architect, Oracle pulled back the curtain on the three dimensions of connectivity that define AI-era networking, and how optical innovation is enabling the globe-spanning AI network fabric
One of the tech industry’s biggest worries was in full...
Radisys CEO Arun Bhikshesvaran sat down with Rakuten Mobile’s Chief AI and Data Officer Sachin Verma for a “Coffee, Chai & Chat” podcast at MWC Barcelona. They discussed how AI-enhanced digital services, and the ways in which Rakuten Mobile...
The companies’ collaboration has yielded agentic AI blueprints, RAN digital twins and a strategy for moving customers toward autonomous networks and AI-native 6G wireless networks.
VIAVI CTO Sameh Yamany and NVIDIA senior director of telecom marketing Kanika Atri spoke to...
Post-Infinera integration, the Finnish vendor’s growth target is data center interconnect
Nokia’s optical pitch this year at OFC was crystalline, more intentional, and landed somewhere between breakthrough and inevitable.
A new building block-based approach
A diverse set of new applications have emerged...
The trial used Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics over an unregenerated link
In sum – what to know:
Record distance – 800 Gb/s transmitted over 16,608 km without regeneration on a transpacific subsea link.
Higher capacity – The trial achieved...
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 own problems, and don't buy the hype anyway; but...
At OFC, Telefónica’s CTO outlined its strategy to reverse persistent revenue challenges
In sum — what to know:
Modernization focus: Telefónica is eyeing a combination of strategies to modernize the network in an effort to generate new revenue streams
Level 4 automation:...
Major carriers are using Nvidia's "AI Grid" to repurpose their networks
In sum - what we know:
A distributed architecture - Nvidia is branding "AI grids" as geographically distributed infrastructure designed to monetize AI inference at the network edge.
Proven performance gains - Validation...
The tower JV between TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone builds on a preliminary RAN sharing agreement signed earlier this year
In sum – what to know:
6,000 towers planned – TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone aim to expand tower infrastructure to...
The solution combines AT&T’s IoT core network and Cisco’s mobility services platform, allowing localized data routing, predictable performance, and secure connectivity for enterprise and industrial environments
In sum – what to know:
Edge networks – AT&T and Cisco integrate AI inference...
As cellular IoT deployments grow from thousands to millions, the limits of hardware, not software, come into focus, writes IoT connectivity provider Onomondo. Until connectivity infrastructure evolves to adapt to constrained devices – rather than forcing them into legacy...
The partnership between Huawei and du also includes work on AI-based network management and automation to improve efficiency and spectrum utilization
In sum – what to know:
5G-A speed target – du and Huawei plan Phase-2 upgrades to deliver peak 10Gbps...
Jeff Heynen, VP at Dell’Oro Group, told RCR Wireless that cable infrastructure upgrades will play a central role in the recovery of the broadband access equipment market this year
In sum – what to know:
Market rebound – Broadband access...
Christel Heydemann, CEO at Orange Group, emphasized the company’s internal use of its own platforms
In sum – what to know:
Sovereign enterprise – Orange Business launched collaboration, AI, and voice solutions built on European infrastructure, targeting data control and regulatory...
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 tokens become the core unit of value, and data...
For Red Hat, the takeaway from this year’s MWC is clear: the telco to techco transformation is well underway
At MWC Barcelona, the “telco to techco” transformation felt less like a buzzword and more like a reality.
For those of you...
GlobalData told RCR Wireless News that despite high fiber penetration, growth will continue to be driven by network upgrades, premium high-speed plans, and the gradual migration away from legacy copper infrastructure
In sum – what to know:
Fiber growth offsets decline...
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 inference at the edge.
In sum – what to know:
Robotics...
Wi-Fi 8 will support future networks as traffic shifts from human-initiated applications to machine-driven, agentic AI applications
Wi-Fi 8 is designed to build directly on the performance gains introduced with Wi-Fi 7. Extending them by delivering higher and more consistent...
Creator-led MVNOs highlight a new path for telecom growth, where community, identity and brand loyalty drive adoption more than price or coverage. Telecom tech company Circles says that by leveraging existing audiences and niche segments, operators can experiment with...
