AI

Service assurance is officially graduating from an era of dashboards, tickets, and engineers scrambling to find what’s gone wrong to swift root cause analysis and proactive fixes As AI moves deeper into the network stack, a burst of experimentation has …

One of the strategies announced by True centers on embedding AI across network operations, customer service, and internal systems In sum – what to know: Three-year plan – True Corporation has introduced “Four Big Moves” to shift from a traditional …

The CEO of TIM outlined how the telecom sector’s priorities are shifting as new digital applications place different demands on networks In sum – what to know: AI is interconnected – TIM CEO Pietro Labriola told MWC that telecoms infrastructure, …

Agentic AI, sustainability mandates, edge-native infrastructure, and AI-augmented workforces are reshaping how operators run networks and serve customers, says enterprise software company IFS. In recent years, the industry has undergone significant changes, whether in network services, infrastructure, or regulations. 2026 …

EXFO’s Olivier Côté digs into testing challenges — and outlines how methods are evolving to accommodate hollow core fiber’s physical peculiarities One of hottest trends coming out of the optical fiber industry today is hollow core fiber (HCF).  HCF had …

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a foundational capability for telecommunications operators, shaping network operations, service delivery, customer experience, and national digital competitiveness. As AI becomes central to economic growth and critical infrastructure, telecom operators must adopt AI in a way …

As AI adoption accelerates, telecom operators have a chance to claim a central role in the AI economy, says Spirent (now part of Keysight). To seize it, they must move beyond connectivity and deliver trusted, high-performance AI infrastructure and services. …

Scindia noted that India had one of the fastest rollouts of 5G in the world, with 500,000 base stations already deployed in the country In sum – what to know: AI transforming networks – Scindia said the industry is entering …

Cyberattacks, outages, and AI-scale workloads are exposing the limits of legacy enterprise networks. As costs soar and threats evolve, IT services company Kyndryl says organizations must move beyond basic automation toward secure, AI-native infrastructure capable of autonomous operations, continuous visibility, …

The head of China Telecom said in a keynote speech at MWC 2026 that the carrier is advancing its strategy of “cloudification, digital transformation and AI for good” In sum – what to know: AI-driven transformation – China Telecom is …

Carriers are using real-time audio fingerprinting to intercept synthetic voice scams and Wangiri before the phone rings It used to take actual skill to pull off a convincing phone scam. These days, however, convincing voice spoofing is a whole lot …

While most of the big talk at MWC is about 5G and 6G, the most urgent AI infrastructure work is with fibre-heavy data centre interconnects. Cisco, and certain others, are capitalising on this east-west traffic surge, with mobile and edge …

A new report from the Capgemini Research Institute suggests many operators are struggling to deliver measurable business outcomes for enterprise customers As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, telecom operators are facing growing pressure to move beyond connectivity and deliver measurable business …

The president of Huawei’s ICT marketing and solution sales department said the AI revolution is pushing the mobile industry into what he called the ‘agentic internet era’ In sum – what to know: AI and 5G-A convergence – Operators and …

In his keynote session at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, the Qualcomm CEO said 2026 is going to be the year of agents In sum – what to know: AI agents – Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon predicts the shift from smartphone-centric …

Without context, AI guesses — creating unreliable outcomes. Ontologies aim to solve the problem. During Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026, Totogi CEO Danielle Rios sat down with RCR Wireless News’ Sean Kinney to get to the bottom of what’s stopping …

Eric Yang, president of carrier business at Huawei, said that China Telecom is upgrading VIP services with fiber-to-room packages combined with home AI agents In sum – what to know: Massive AI scale ahead – Huawei predicts 10x AI capability …

AI is driving innovation in Infovista’s VistAI agentic AI framework and VistaOne AI-enabled platform for network and CX intelligence Infovista CEO Rick Hamilton sat down with RCRTech principal analyst Sean Kinney to reflect on the company’s 30-year evolution and the …

Spectrum Effect President and CRO: ‘MWC is going to be dominated by AI again, of course’ With Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2026 hitting the halfway point, AI is dominating the headlines. That’s to be expected. But beneath the buzz, …

Huawei said that the “networks for AI” concept focuses on adapting optical infrastructure to support AI applications In sum – what to know: Dual AI strategy – Huawei is structuring its optical roadmap around “AI for networks” and “networks for …

Jennifer Artley, in charge of private 5G at Verizon Business has left. The news compounds unease in the market following Nokia’s decision to quit. Verizon Business remains focused, it says; interest in Nokia is considerable. In sum – what to …

In an AI era defined by the explosive growth of intelligent applications, both technological and economic paradigms are undergoing systemic transformation, mobile networks must rapidly evolve from mere “traffic pipe” into “AI engines” , and the transformation of telecom operators …

For years, advances in wireless connectivity have been defined largely by speed. Each new Wi-Fi generation has pushed peak throughput higher and reduced latency, with Wi-Fi 7 representing a major leap forward in peak wireless performance. But as AI becomes …

The Report Minimum Technical Performance Requirements for IMT-2030 (6G) was formally finalized at the 51st meeting of ITU-R Working Party 5D (WP 5D), which concluded on 12 February 2026. It marks the official transition of 6G from vision and concept …

Once in defensive mode and fighting decline, Lumen Technologies has re-emerged with a radically simplified strategy, a repaired balance sheet, and a bold claim to be critical infrastructure for the AI economy — as enterprise network spending shifts from connecting …