AI

Cut-price FWA sale shows Nokia’s shift to AI infrastructure, sets the tone for further disposals, and gives Inseego an instant double-your-business boost – which poses questions for the San Diego firm, as well. In sum – what to know: Knockdown …

Jio reported a 5G user base of 268 million as of the end of March, with 5G traffic now accounting for nearly 55% of the telco’s overall mobile traffic In sum – what to know: 5G scale – 268 million …

For full 2026, American Tower said it expected its property revenues to reach $10.58-10.73 billion In sum – what to know: AI momentum – Rising AI workloads and cloud adoption are reinforcing long-term demand for digital infrastructure and supporting the …

The rapid growth of AI workloads and hyperscale cloud infrastructure is placing unprecedented demands on optical and fiber networks. Scaling capacity while maintaining efficiency, latency and cost control is becoming a critical priority for operators and data center providers. This RCRTech webinar …

Guang Yang, senior principal analyst at Omdia, told RCR Wireless News that China Mobile is facing growing competition from rival telcos In sum – what to know: Profit under pressure – Profit fell 4.2% year-on-year as weaker demand, competition and …

Qualcomm sees 6G commercialization being shaped by sensing, distributed intelligence and new multi-device experiences that merge the physical and digital worlds For Qualcomm, the case for 6G is about building a network platform that can sense the environment, support distributed …

T-Mobile US signed off another good quarter with some fighting talk about acquisition strategies and accounting habits at rivals AT&T and Verizon, and said its 5G network and compute build-out will be the best in the business to support enterprise …

ZTE said it is positioning its business around a combined connectivity and computing model, expanding its role in AI infrastructure alongside its established telecom portfolio In sum – what to know: AI shift – Computing reached 27% of revenue as …

Strong growth and raised guidance sit alongside major AI work at Verizon, about to be unveiled with a brand new AI tech stack to drive further network automation and customer (micro-) segmentation to cut costs, improve service, and drive “industrial-scale” …

Modest top-line growth in the first quarter masks a more dramatic shift at Nokia, where a surge in optical networking for AI infrastructure is reshaping its revenue mix. In line with demand, the firm has raised projections for fiber and …

As AI footprint expands across telecom networks, older assurance models are emerging a key constraint on performance and service reliability Telcos are at an inflection point. AI offers a potential opportunity to reorient themselves and grow beyond the revenue plateau …

Debate at FutureNet World shifted from strategy to execution, as telcos BT and Orange outlined platform-led, partner-driven models, while Telus and Rakuten pressed for faster moves into AI-led solutions and infrastructure plays like GPU as-a-service. In sum – what to …

At FutureNet World, Rakuten and Telus pushed for bold AI-led reinvention, while BT and Orange argued for a measured platform-driven evolution. But beneath the contrast, a shared strategy is taking shape – programmable networks, available in flexible platforms, plus proper …

Qualcomm sees the smartphone evolving into an AI orchestrator as multi-device experiences become the norm New generations of cellular typically come to market with a killer use case — mobile data with 3G, mobile video with 4G, fixed wireless access with …

With AI traffic expected to surge, Qualcomm sees spectrum decisions made today shaping 6G leadership in the future While the standards and technology needed to support commercial 6G launches in 2029 are moving with strong momentum, policy decisions regarding access …

Physical AI for robot automation in factories and plants requires lightweight maths models, not token-hungry language models, says NTT Data. It does not have to wait on expensive GPUs, when CPUs work fine. But it does need private 5G for …

From ISAC and digital twins to personal AI and physical AI, Qualcomm and its partners are designing 6G as an end-to-end intelligent platform As Qualcomm looks beyond 5G, the company is framing 6G less as a generational upgrade and more …

Ericsson is sticking to what it knows: 5G, public and private, and APIs, to expose 5G capabilities to developers and enterprises; it offers more coherent longer-term diversification, it implies, than a Nokia-style switch to ride the AI bandwagon on fiber …

Rakuten Symphony reckons the solution delivers a 70-80% reduction in deployment timelines, costs, and errors In sum – what to know: Deployment gains – Integration with Weezie can reduce fiber planning timelines from months to weeks and cut deployment costs …

You already understand the power grid. You understand the telecom grid and even the autonomous driving grid. Grids emerge when demand scales beyond what a single centralized system can handle. They distribute supply, increase resilience and become foundational infrastructure. AI …

Lumen chief executive Kate Johnson has penned an open letter to enterprise CEOs (and the whole telecoms industry): that there is a golden opportunity to connect the AI revolution, but legacy networks are not up to scratch, and the industry …

Nicolas Girard, chief executive at OXIO, buying Telefónica’s business in Mexico, told RCR that the sale will take up to nine months, and the subsequent integration will take just four months. In sum – what to know: Defined timeline – …

On the operational side, True is deploying AI to predict network issues, automate processes, and improve service performance In sum – what to know: AI beyond efficiency – True is embedding AI into enterprise services and customer platforms, aiming to …

AT&T is positioning private 5G as a necessary enterprise capability rather than a breakout revenue engine, tying its future instead to edge AI, spectrum pragmatism, and a broader “AI grid” vision with partners like Cisco and Nvidia. In sum – …

AT&T has clarified its emerging AI “grid” and IoT strategy, combining regional inference, cloud platforms, and private 5G to target enterprise use cases while testing where edge AI delivers most value. In sum – what to know: Regional edge – …