Telco vendors are rushing agentic AI into OSS and BSS stacks – hard, at DTW Ignite this week. Nokia has just announced work with AWS and Databricks to build the …

Speaking at the opening keynote of MWC Shanghai 2026, Zhong Zhihong, chief engineer at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said China will continue to accelerate the deployment of …

Satellite D2D technology is proven, but achieving ubiquitous US coverage depends on interoperability, argues Dr. Lee W. McKnight at Syracuse University. He examines why cooperation between carriers, satellite operators, and …

TelcoAgent pairs zero-shot KPM forecasting with a 3GPP knowledge graph In sum – what we know: Telecom networks generate an enormous amount of operational data, and the people running them …

Telcos spent years being told it was becoming irrelevant. Hyperscalers were eating its lunch, OTT players were hollowing out its revenues, and its destiny was to be a glorified utility. …

Scale is becoming the defining advantage in MDU connectivity. In part 1 of a three-part series, analyst-consultancy Maravedis examines how economics, capital, and operator strategy are accelerating market consolidation. Strategic …

With 125 million IoT connections and annual growth of 25 percent, the LoRa Alliance says LoRaWAN has moved beyond LPWAN niche status. Chief executive Alper Yegin explains why the technology …

The current review reflects broader concerns around national security, data sovereignty, and regulatory oversight in India In sum – what to know: Security concerns – India’s Home Affairs Ministry is …

AI workloads are reshaping data centers and cloud networks, driving unprecedented demands on scale, performance, and resiliency. Scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across connectivity models are redefining how GPUs, racks, and data …

Taara Beam swaps mechanical mirrors for a fingernail-sized photonic chip In sum – what we know: Fiber gets all the credit, and for good reason. It’s the backbone of global …

In sum, what to know: –Telecom testing is shifting from point-in-time verification to continuous validation. As networks become increasingly cloud-native, multi-technology and automated, operators are moving toward continuous, end-to-end testing …

AI is not just driving demand for more network capacity. It is fundamentally changing what networks need to do. AI workloads introduce a traffic profile unlike anything cloud computing has …

SK Telecom’s AX Innovation 2.0 program treats AI agents as “digital employees” In sum – what we know: SK Telecom wants you to think of AI agents less as software …

According to Mavenir, a key element of the offering is a token-based charging model that allows telcos to bill AI usage through mechanisms similar to those already used for traditional …

Speaking at FutureNet World back in April, Miguel Alvarez, AI chief at Orange Business, discussed his firm’s dual-mode AI platform strategy in the context of its own transformation, its sovereignty …

Testing and validation are how the telecommunications industry explores new technologies, frameworks, and features, as well as how technological evolution and maturity are reflected. The test and measurement space has …

Quantum computing is moving from long-term promise to practical telecom experimentation, writes quantum software company Classiq. As operators tackle complex optimisation, forecasting and security challenges, early pilots are helping build …

The agentic enterprise gets a full stack, and a third answer to the one-platform question – all the latest from HPE Discover 2026, courtesy of Adlane Fellah at Maravedis Research. …

China’s AI infrastructure plan appears to be part of a broader national infrastructure strategy announced by the Chinese leadership in April this year, says Omdia In sum – what to …

The push for orbital data centres promises abundant solar power, but faces severe constraints in heat rejection, launch costs, congestion, downlink bandwidth and depreciation – suggesting niche applications rather than …