In this episode, Bruno Berti, Senior Vice President of Global Product Management at NTT Global Data Centers, shares how a career rooted in telecom and community-first values has evolved into leading global strategy for one of the world’s largest...
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Sovereign AI funding opens a new growth path for telcos – Governments investing in domestic AI infrastructure are increasingly turning to operators, whose network and regulatory strengths position them to capture a large share...
ABI Research identifies the fastest growth in 'carpeted verticals' such as retail, stadiums and financial services, where slicing requirements are simpler
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Network slicing will scale from $6.1B to $67.5B by 2030 – A tenfold jump...
Connectivity is no longer an optional amenity but a critical infrastructure in multifamily housing
The technology landscape in multifamily housing is shifting faster than most property owners and asset managers can keep track of. Wi-Fi 7 is arriving before many...
Wi-Fi 8 is taking shape, but the lack of universal 6 GHz access threatens to limit performance and distort regional rollouts
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6 GHz is foundational – Wide, clean 6 GHz channels are key to...
Whether you buy the specifics of the latest from MIT on 95% of enterprise gen AI projects failing to impact P&L, the directional signal is still clear: it's difficult for large organizations to successfully move from pilot to production.
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Nokia has pushed back against criticism of its European job cuts and US investment drive, insisting reductions in France and Germany are part of a long-planned cost-savings programme and do not undermine its standards work or regional commitment.
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LG Uplus said the new structure is designed to increase specialization, strengthen product development, and promote closer collaboration across related teams
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LG Uplus launches a 2026 restructuring plan – The company will separate business and...
Open RAN has made progress, but it’s still far from delivering on its original promise. The multi-vendor vision remains unattained, energy efficiency is still a major concern and CSPs have little incentive to rip and replace what already works....
Agentic AI is the key to reinvention, reinvigoration, and winning the next decade
The industry business model is dying. Rows of cubicles, millions of square feet of office space being rented, turnover rates, costs of recruitment, dissatisfied customers, inefficient processes,...
The next Wi-Fi generation shifts the focus from peak throughput to intelligence, reliability, and real-world performance.
For more than two decades, every major Wi-Fi generation has leaned on one reliable message: it’s faster than the last. Wi-Fi 5 increased peak...
The timing of Nokia’s announcements last week about continuing European reductions and increasing US investments is awkward – and raises questions, perhaps, when considered with parallel EU calls in Germany and France, where it is cutting jobs, for home-made...
Open Gateway / CAMARA isn’t plug-and-play for MNOs....but it could be implemented efficiently, with the right strategy.
Despite global efforts to harmonize and standardize telecom APIs, CAMARA may not be as seamless for mobile operators as it’s often envisioned. Mobile...
Wi-Fi 6E introduced the 6 GHz band; Wi-Fi 7 maximized it; now Wi-Fi 8 will rearchitect how it’s used
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Foundational – Next-generation Wi-Fi depends on wide, clean 6 GHz channels, which enable multi-gigabit throughput, low...
A few weeks ago, Verizon announced the largest round of layoffs in its history
In November 2025, Verizon, one of the largest wireless carriers in the United States, announced the largest round of layoffs in its history, marking a pivotal moment for both the company...
As part of the agreement, SK Telecom will contribute operational data and nationwide test environments
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Samsung and SKT sign a 6G-focused MOU – Collaboration targets AI-RAN advances such as channel estimation, distributed MIMO and next-generation...
Nokia will deliver its energy-efficient, AI-ready AirScale RAN portfolio, including Habrok Massive MIMO radios for the n78 band
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Telefónica Germany extends its RAN deal with Nokia to 2030 – New contract covers Cloud RAN deployment,...
As of mid-2025, there were 17.4K postpaid carrier stores, down from 17.6K stores in mid-2024
We hear a lot about the evolution of telecom retail. Stores going away, we heard in 2020. Phone delivery is the path forward, we...
Revealed at the recent Intellectual Property (IP) Forum in Beijing, Huawei’s latest edition of the Top 10 Inventions Awards highlights the company’s commitment to pushing technological boundaries. Each innovation on the list represents a step forward in making advanced...
FiberPass, the joint venture created by Vodafone Spain and Telefónica, began operating in March 2025
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AXA IM Alts acquires 40% of FiberPass – The investor joins Telefónica and Vodafone in the FTTH venture, with Telefónica...
Private 5G has long promised Wi-Fi-like simplicity for industrial networks. At Industrial Wireless Forum, Moso Networks and partners Druid Software and X2nSat argued that promise has finally arrived: plug-and-play blueprints, three-minute deployments, and easily scalable 5G for enterprises of...
Telecom’s current AI-RAN fantasy is seductive, but the reality is a costly engineering and economic trap
There is a seductive narrative sweeping through the telecom industry right now. It promises that if we feed enough petabytes of logs, traces, and...
AI agents — not humans — will soon choose networks
The future of connectivity isn’t just about faster speeds for humans; it’s about architecting your network to be the default choice for the autonomous AI agents that will manage them.
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Nokia expects to allocate $3.5 billion to U.S.-based R&D, covering next-generation connectivity technologies
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$4B to expand U.S. operations – The plan adds major R&D and manufacturing investments on top of earlier spending linked to the...
TalayLink has extended the Interlink cable, which Google revealed under the Australia Connect initiative in 2023
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New Australia–Thailand subsea cable – Google introduced the TalayLink cable, creating a diverse route through the Indian Ocean and...
