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UK boosts AI ambitions with $1.3B investment

During London Tech Week, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang also confirmed the launch of a new Nvidia AI tech center in the UK In sum – what to know: U.K. commits to AI compute – The country aims to become...

Amazon to invest $20B in Pennsylvania data centers

Amazon Web Services previously acquired land and a Talen Energy facility near the Susquehanna nuclear plant In sum – what to know: Historic investment – This investment commitment by Amazon marks the largest private-sector investment in Pennsylvania’s history, with innovation campuses...

e& advances 5G-A with new record speed

e& said that the achievement was made possible by aggregating FR1 bands at 2.1GHz and C-band, paired with Uplink 3Tx on a CPE at a live 5G site In sum – what to know: e& hits 600Mbps uplink – The Arab...

Ericsson wins Airtel gig to manage Indian 4G, 5G from single NOC

Ericsson is to run all of Bharti Airtel’s nationwide network services in India from a single central network operations centre (NOC) in India, as part of a new multi-year managed services deal. The arrangement covers centralised intent-based AI/ML-driven automation...

Trump admin’s ‘Bargain’ BEAD: Approvals yanked, new rules in play

States have 90 days to comply with revamped BEAD rules, including a 'Benefit of the Bargain' bidding round The Trump administration has released its updated rules for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, to mixed responses....

Ericsson launches Canada-designed 5G system

Ericsson said that Bell will be the first telecom provider globally to adopt the new 5G system In sum – what you need to know: Canada-built 5G innovation – Ericsson’s Ottawa team developed the Indoor Fusion 8828, a plug-and-play 5G system...

JTower claims Japan’s first O-RAN-based shared 5G radio

JTower said it will begin interoperability testing with Japan’s four mobile carriers in fiscal year 2025 In sum – what to know: Japan’s first Open RAN 5G radio – JTower’s new shared unit supports Sub6 bands across four operators, using O-RAN...

5G coverage reaches 96% of Spanish population in 2024

Over the past three years, 5G coverage has expanded by 37 percentage points nationwide, according to a government report In sum – what you need to know: Rural 5G surges – 5G coverage in rural areas has tripled in three years,...

Starlink secures license to launch satellite services in India

Starlink now joins Airtel-backed Eutelsat OneWeb and Reliance Jio Satellite Communications as the third company to be granted a GMPCS license in India In sum – what you need to know: Starlink enters India – Elon Musk’s satellite venture has secured...

OpenAI eyes India for AI infrastructure partnership

OpenAI executives and top Indian officials are currently in talks to build AI infra in India In sum – what to know: AI infra ambitions – OpenAI is exploring collaboration with the Indian government to build out local data center capacity...

The Sunday Brief: Another disappointing BEAD delay

Greetings from Nashville, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City.  It has been a whirlwind of activity since Memorial Day, and the summer promises to be filled with even more headlines.  The opening picture is of our first (and definitely not...

Analyst Angle: AI-for-RAN will be a CFO favorite

How will mobile operators use AI/ML to boost capacity and energy efficiency in the radio network? The PR wars have started, and people will stir up a lot of questions. CPU? GPU?   What about the new ARC Compact?...

Work-shy AI collapses under questioning – Apple debunks AGI myth

New research from Apple casts serious doubts about excitable claims about sentient machines. Results suggest large reasoning models collapse under pressure – challenging the AGI concept, and exposing AI industry overreach. In sum – what to know: Total collapse – new...

Bookmarks: From infrastructure to products — the new AI battleground

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...

AWS unveils fully sovereign cloud for Europe

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be fully physically and logically separate from other AWS global regions In sum – what to know: Sovereign AWS cloud – AWS is launching a cloud region in Germany with complete operational independence, managed...

Ambient IoT smart labels – another hopeful step (Linxens and Dracula team up)

Ambient IoT leaders Linxens and Dracula are to create battery-free smart labels to tackle the sector's grim sustainable IoT record and failed massive IoT promise. In sum – what to know: Battery-free – Linxens and Dracula, prominent in the niche smart...

AI in telecom – from quiet power to front-line force

Telecom operators aren’t new to AI – they’ve quietly optimized networks for years. But with the surge in generative AI, the sector is poised to become both a major user and enabler of the next wave of global intelligence....

Five trends set to redefine global telecoms (Reader Forum)

From cloud migration to AI integration, five forces are reshaping global enterprise telecom strategies It’s nothing new that with strong communications comes business success. However, the nature of strong communications in the post pandemic workplace has changed dramatically, with technologies...

Orange signs with Eutelsat to offer LEO satellite support to global enterprises

Orange has expanded its global enterprise offer with satellite LEO connectivity for remote services and mobile backhaul via a deal with France-based Eutelsat Group. In sum – what to know: Global coverage – by integrating Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO satellites with its...

Wi-Fi 7 gains ground as enterprise WLAN market grows 11%

Dell’Oro finds Wi-Fi 7 gaining traction as enterprise WLAN revenue rises and AI reshapes vendor strategies The enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) market is off to a strong start in 2025, with Dell’Oro Group reporting an 11% year-over-year revenue increase in...

Rakuten Symphony, MobiFone to trial O-RAN in Vietnam

Rakuten Symphony will provide O-RAN equipment and collaborate with ecosystem partners for deployment and technical support In sum – what you need to know: Vietnam joins Open RAN pioneers – Rakuten Symphony and MobiFone sign MoU to pilot 4G/5G Open RAN...

Editorial Report: The AI power play

AI is transforming digital infrastructure, but the race to scale faces a critical constraint: power. As trillions of dollars flow into new data center capacity and compute platforms, access to power has become a central factor shaping how AI evolves....

Inside Telefónica Germany’s cloud-first strategy — from IT to core

Telefónica Germany reveals how a public cloud overhaul of IT and telecom is redefining its network — and its culture Telefónica Germany has taken a bold step in telecom transformation by migrating both IT and telecom workloads, including the core...

Canadian investment firm Brookfield pumps $10 billion into AI infra in Sweden

New investment will be focused on a new large AI facility in Strängnäs, Sweden – says Brookfield In sum – what you need to know: Swedish AI infra push – Brookfield will fund a major AI hub in Strängnäs, doubling data...

Arcep launches consultations for French 3.8-4.2 GHz band

The 3.8-4.2 GHz band is central to the European vision to harmonize industrial 5G use cases, acknowledges French regulator. 5G spectrum talks — Arcep has launched two consultations on assigning the 3.8–4.2 GHz band for private mobile networks in metropolitan...