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Bookmarks: AI — ‘superintelligence’ or the ‘illusion of thinking’? 

Editor’s note: I’m in the habit of bookmarking on LinkedIn and X (and in actual books, magazines, movies, newspapers, and records) things I think are insightful and interesting. What I’m not in the habit of doing is ever revisiting...

BSNL to install additional 100,000 4G towers in India

BSNL has recently concluded the installation of 100,000 towers for the provision of 4G services nationwide In sum – what to know: BSNL plans next 100,000 towers – State-run telco BSNL is preparing to install another 100,000 4G towers after reaching...

Nokia secures deal to modernize Elisa’s 5G network infra

Nokia said that the new deal will cover Elisa’s operations in Estonia and Finland In sum – what to know: Extended 5G deal – Nokia will upgrade Elisa’s mobile network in Finland and Estonia over the next four years, supporting faster...

Temasek joins Microsoft, BlackRock to develop AI infra

Temasek is joining the AI Infrastructure Partnership, which aims to mobilize up to $100 billion in the AI infra field In sum – what to know: Temasek backs major AI infra push – Singapore’s Temasek has joined Microsoft- and BlackRock-backed AI...

Inseego and T-Mobile push 5G FWA deeper into the enterprise

Inseego designed its first 5G FWA device exclusively for T-Mobile's enterprise play Inseego, the original MiFi innovator, made a bold move into enterprise fixed wireless access (FWA) when it launched the FX4100 at the end of May. The device, an...

Under the hook light – AI hype, hopes, hidden costs

Here’s a long editorial ramble – about the capability, trajectory, and sustainability of AI. It takes recent Apple research about the practical real-world struggles of the latest hyped AI systems as its (delayed) start point, and then gets buried...

Editorial Webinar: Open RAN reality check – From open interfaces to open-ended innovation

Open RAN is entering its next phase. After years of the grinding work to standardize open interfaces between disaggregated radio components, the focus now shifts to leveraging this new open architecture to deliver tangible innovation.Using the RAN Intelligent Controller...

Vodafone Idea activates 5G services in Bengaluru

Vodafone Idea recently announced plans to roll out 5G services across all 17 of its priority telecom circles in India by August this year In sum – what to know: Vi expands 5G in India – Vodafone Idea has launched 5G...

Ericsson, Google Cloud team up for on-demand core network service

New on-demand core service from Ericsson and Google Cloud promises scale, speed and integrated AI Ericsson has teamed up with Google Cloud to launch an on-demand network core service, meant to help communications service providers deploy bit-by-bit extensions of 5G...

NGMN calls for harmonized 6G – without total hardware refresh

The transition to future 6G technology should be evolutionary and should not force a complete hardware refresh, says NGMN In sum – what to know: Evolution, not revolution – NGMN emphasizes that 6G should evolve from 5G, with most upgrades happening...

Nvidia boosts European sovereignty with AI infra push

Nvidia said the initiative spans France, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and several Nordic countries In sum — what to know: Massive AI infrastructure expansion – France, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and other nations are rolling out sovereign AI infrastructure using Nvidia...

Record US data center power usage amid AI boom, forecasts EIA

EIA highlighted that a major contributor to the revised outlook is the expansion of data centers, particularly those supporting AI workloads In sum — what to know: AI fuels surging power demand – U.S. electricity consumption is growing faster than expected,...

LiquidStack CEO breaks down AI infra pain points

LiquidStack CEO noted that many data center operators remain hesitant to adopt liquid cooling chiefly due to persistent misconceptions In sum – what to know: AI infrastructure bottlenecks – Data center operators are hitting serious delays due to limited power availability,...

IoT to more than double over next decade – as “major demand centre”

In sum – what to know: Growth decade – IoT devices to hit 40.6bn by 2034, with cellular IoT tripling, non-cellular LPWA tech like LoRaWAN almost quadrupling, and short-range IoT still top. Diverse cases – IoT market to spiral 146% to...

Bringing massive-scale cellular IoT into the 5G era (Reader Forum)

As legacy networks phase out, RedCap offers a 5G-ready path for low-power, high-volume IoT As 5G networks continue to evolve globally, a quieter but equally important transformation is underway: the integration of massive-scale, reduced capability cellular applications into the...

T-Mobile US makes fiber-focused play with new broadband offering

By partnering rather than overbuilding, T-Mobile US seeks to accelerate growth in underserved areas without assuming the financial burden of nationwide fiber deployment Earlier this month, T-Mobile US formalized its push into fiber broadband with the launch of T-Mobile Fiber,...

Test and Measurement: PAWR fuses open-source mobile core with Ericsson 5G SA RAN

The PAWR test network integrated a local, open-source mobile core with an Ericsson 5G SA RAN The federally funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR)'s testbed in Iowa is dabbling in the exploration of open-source mobile network software. It recently...

Ericsson, Supermicro advance connectivity for edge AI

Ericsson said that the combined offering would integrate its enterprise wireless solutions, including 5G and SD-WAN technologies In sum – what to know: Ericsson and Supermicro team up – The two firms plan to offer integrated 5G and edge AI systems...