As the year winds down, here’s a look back at some of the leading stories covering the biggest highlights of test and measurement in 2025
2025 was a momentous year. Not in the same way every year feels in retrospect...
Nations will continue to build out AI infrastructure, with telcos at the center
Artificial intelligence is becoming a core pillar of economic competitiveness, national security, and daily life. That reality is prompting governments worldwide to rethink their reliance on foreign...
Navigating the complexity of Wi-Fi connectivity with dynamic segmentation for user-friendly wireless access
In the AI era, both the demand for connectivity and the diversity of connectivity needs are expanding dramatically. Organizations must now support a wide spectrum of users...
New Verizon CEO Dan Schulman is very busy reinventing the company
Something is starting to happen at Verizon, and so far, while it is still very early, I like what I am seeing. Historically, Verizon has always seemed to battle...
According to a recent report, 75% of telco CEOs believe legacy IT systems hinder rapid innovation
The telecommunications industry is undergoing significant change. Connectivity is increasingly commoditized, 5G is broadly deployed, and 6G is on the horizon. Yet revenue...
The results of a recent IEEE survey indicates that 6G remains more of a research topic than a near-term business priority
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently conducted a survey of tech leaders about the impact of...
Mobile services offer flyers much better speed than airport Wi-Fi — sometimes reaching up to 2x the performance
In sum — what to know:
Cellular outperforms Wi-Fi in U.S. airports: Ookla found that in a majority of U.S airports, cellular is...
As private 5G matures, Ericsson highlights convergence as a key enterprise theme: bringing together dedicated private networks and neutral-host indoor coverage; the firm also pushes back against claims that its telco heritage leaves it out of step with enterprise...
In a world where everything is mission-critical, no one can afford a failed connection
Every access technology fails — fiber cuts, power outages, overloaded 5G cells. Further, user expectations have changed; home connectivity today is mission-critical: remote work, school assignments,...
In this episode, Jeremy Pease, CEO of Hivelocity, shares how a non-traditional path from teenage tech enthusiast to data center executive led him to the forefront of edge infrastructure innovation. From skipping college to coding at Microsoft and rising...
Combining Dell’s hardware, software, services and ecosystem with AMD’s advanced CPUs and GPUs, CSPs can build a future-ready foundation to capitalize on AI
Communications service providers (CSPs) operate networks that power the world’s digital data flow. Now that the initial...
Customer churn remains a huge issue for telcos. Could AI actually help?
Customer churn remains one of the telecom industry's most persistent and expensive problems. Annual churn rates typically land somewhere between 15–30%, with prepaid markets seeing even higher turnover...
AI represents a big opportunity for telcos, who already have access to huge troves of data
Telecommunication companies are sitting on some of the most valuable data in any industry. As AI becomes more embedded in network operations, fraud detection,...
Global 6 GHz harmonization will be a key determinant of Wi-Fi 8’s performance, adoption curve, and competitiveness
The 6 GHz band (5925–7125 MHz) has become the defining spectrum layer for next-generation Wi-Fi, enabling the performance, reliability, and intelligence required for...
When AI falters in telecom, the ripple effects extend across entire economies
The telecom industry stands at a defining moment for AI-driven transformation. Whileevery sector experiments with AI, telecom operators face uniquely high stakes:networks form society's digital backbone, yet customers...
The proof of concept successfully transferred a live session from a commercial geostationary Earth orbit satellite to an emulated low Earth orbit environment in a lab
In sum — what to know:
PoC of multi-orbit mobility: In a joint trial, Keysight...
Research commissioned by the newly reorganised vendor finds most US and European tech leaders believe existing infrastructure is unfit for the next phase of AI – just as Nokia pivots hard toward AI-native networking.
In sum – what to know:
AI...
The story of IoT has never been a simple one. Few technologies have inspired such sweeping visions of transformation, only to stutter and splutter, and fizzle out. For years, the industry has been caught in a cycle of overstatement...
Readers of RCR Wireless News who have been in IoT for at least five years will surely have experienced what I like to call “the shift.” This happens about every three years, when IoT vendors decide to either:
Verticalize their...
T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon experienced a 'noticeable' decline in FWA download and upload speeds during Q2 2025 and Q3 2025
In sum – what to know:
T-Mo reigns supreme - T-Mobile US delivered roughly double AT&T’s median download speeds in Q3...
Vodafone is operationalising its hyperscaler ambition in IoT, putting the US and the wider Americas at the heart of a new growth phase. Dennis Nikles, newly-appointed MD for the region, explains how deeper MNO partnerships, platform investment, and a...
As industrial AI and automation grow, reliable connectivity will matter as much as the machines themselves
As the adoption of automation, robotics, and industrial AI accelerates, the network has now become the factor that determines how reliably these systems operate....
APIs are standardized. Semantics are shared. Operators are aligned. Developer sandboxes exist. Reference implementations are open.
Telecom operators have long believed that their networks contain latent platform value. Mobile networks authenticate devices, bind phone numbers to physical infrastructure, and observe...
Protocol testing can eliminate choke points, unlocking infrastructure maturity as 5G scales at full speed
When a 5G network goes down for a brief minute, millions of users find themselves unable to do the simplest of things their phones otherwise...
MasOrange, Spain’s largest operator by customer base, is accelerating its O-RAN deployment with Swedish vendor Ericsson
In sum – what to know:
Open RAN-ready – One-third of MasOrange’s 5G sites are ready for Open RAN, making it Europe’s largest commercial Open...
