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Weak quarter, bright spots – Nokia missed Q1 expectations with a 36% shortfall in operating profit, driven by a one-off €120m charge in Mobile Networks, despite strong growth in enterprise and regional US sales.
Enterprise and Infinera gains – enterprise...
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Open 5G investment – Ericsson is investing €200m in Athlone, Ireland, to develop open, programmable 5G tech that supports dynamic multi-vendor networks.
Automation-first platform – funding will go on its automation latform and RAN apps to optimize performance, tuning, and...
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Enterprise AI – Fujitsu preps new service to run generative AI without companies needing to own or manage their own gear; incorporates Supermicro OEM GPU-accelerated hardware, and Fujitsu’s LLM for enterprises.
All-in platform – the managed platform bundles...
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Punchy Q1 results – Ericsson saw net income surge 61% and gross margin jump 48.2% in the first quarter, driven by booming (possibly pre-tariff) network sales in North America – offsetting drops in every other region.
CEO shake-up...
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$12bn by 2028 – global revenue from high-end push-to-talk (PTT) services – especially mission-critical (MC-PTT) on 4G/5G – will hit $12 billion by 2028, with an 11% CAGR.
Smarter MC-PTT – better priority-based PTT group comms, including video...
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Advanced enterprise WAN – Ericsson’s new ‘wireless-first’ SD-WAN architecture bundles Release 17-level 5G, Wi-Fi 6/7, and LEO satellite support into a centrally-managed solution for enterprises.
Cusiness-critical AI apps – the bundle is designed for resilient, scalable, secure operations...
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AI for internal telco efficiencies – AI is being used so successfully in customer care and network maintenance that service agents are solving most problems without raising tickets, and network engineers are up to 70% time-richer
New roles...
Comcast Business says its purchase of Nitel will deliver smarter, more secure and more agile networking solutions for enterprise customers
Comcast Business has officially brought network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider Nitel into the fold, completing its acquisition of the Chicago-based company from global private equity firm Cinven. The...
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Multi-operator support: Celona’s neutral-host solution is approved by T-Mobile and AT&T in the US; Verizon is pending. It supports up to five carriers, including private enterprise networks in CBRS spectrum.
Quick and cheap coverage: Multi-tenant neutral-host cellular...
Despite mounting skepticism and rising failure rates, gen AI investment continues to skyrocket
Spending on generative AI (gen AI) worldwide is set to soar to $644 billion in 2025, representing a 76.4% increase from 2024, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner. This...
France-based software company Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) is offering Celona’s private 4G/5G system as part of its debut private 5G proposition for enterprises, integrated with its own connectivity management, powerline, and Wi-Fi switching equipment. ALE is targeting “complex industrial settings”, it said, such as factories,...
NTT Data has launched a suite of software services for agentic AI for use with cloud hyperscaler platforms and AI tools. It is pitching to “all industries” to help them to develop and scale their own private AI agents; it listed manufacturing, banking, and...
AIaaS enables businesses to leverage AI-driven applications such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and predictive analytics
Artificial intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) is revolutionizing the way businesses and individuals harness the power of artificial intelligence. AIaaS refers to cloud-based AI services that...
Verizon Business has introduced a ‘zero-trust’ network access (ZTNA) service for enterprise customers to secure their devices, network, and cloud applications. It claims the service, called Trusted Connection, is a “first-of-its-kind” for “network-native security”, and secures network access for authorised users whether they are...
MWC 2025, Barcelona: Verizon Business has signed Bell Canada, Singtel, and Telenor IoT, as well as US satellite IoT operator Skylo, to provide IoT connectivity to its new Global IoT Orchestration platform. The three operators provide regional presence, and Skylo, offering Release-17 level (5G-compatible)...
The deal aims to provide organizations with greater flexibility and choice in managing AI workloads
Cisco has announced an expanded collaboration with Nvidia with the aim of delivering artificial intelligence (AI) technology solutions for the enterprise.
While businesses recognize AI’s importance for growth, many are...
UK-headquartered BT Group has signed with US interconnect and data-centre company Equinix to support its Global Fabric offer to multinational enterprises and with Canadian telecoms BSS and cloud services provider Optiva to implement new enterprise services on its application server. Both are expansions of...
Private network specialist Celona is ramping up its channel activity, including to certify devices on its private 4G/5G system. It has appointed US engineering solutions company Truminds Software Systems to its partner scheme, with the firm integrating its API platform with the Celona system,...
More evidence, if it was needed, that 5G is all about enterprises – whether it is used by operators, themselves, to drive internal efficiencies, or sold to other sectors as private networks, network slices, or wide-area networks (WAN) services. Ahead of MWC, the GSMA...
Virgin Media O2 highlighted that its mobile network now provides 5G coverage to over 75% of the U.K. population
U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 has activated its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network for business customers in the UK, making it available to large enterprises, public...
Editor’s note: NVIDIA has a free online course called “AI for All: From Basics to Gen AI Practice”. The team at RCR Wireless News has enrolled and, as we complete the units, are posting write-ups of the sessions along with a bit of additional...
BT has agreed the sale of its Irish wholesale and enterprise business unit, BT Communications Ireland Ltd (BTCIL), to Speed Fibre Group for €22 million. The sale includes BT’s domestic network infrastructure in Ireland, plus 400-odd customers and all the staff supporting them. It...
NVIDIA on the importance of end-to-end solutions to solve enterprise AI adoption challenges
Editor’s note: NVIDIA has a free online course called “AI for All: From Basics to Gen AI Practice”. The team at RCR Wireless News has enrolled and, as we complete the units,...
BT Business has a new chief executive after hiring Jon James from Danish telecoms provider Nuuday with a brief to “fully focus on the UK”. He starts next month (March), replacing Bas Burger, who was appointed to the role with the merger of the...
