SpaceX has spoken for the first time about its plans for a terrestrial mobile network to work with its satellite D2D service to rival AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon – including …

SoftBank’s chief financial officer Osamu Akiyama told a conference call with investors that the company’s AI-related businesses became an increasingly important contributor to its enterprise business segment In sum – …

Agentic AI promises smarter, more autonomous telecom operations, but fragmented OSS/BSS, middleware, and messaging platforms deny it the operational context it needs. Without end-to-end visibility, CSPs risk weaker automation, poorer …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Some fairly routine industry updates on Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, 5G rankings, and telecom-related M&A, plus a bigger story – about how cheap …

As mobile networks evolve toward 5G-Advanced and 6G, the Radio Access Network is undergoing a profound transformation. The Intelligent RAN paradigm marks a pivotal shift from traditional, hardware-centric architectures to …

As NTN moves from proof of concept to commercial reality, the industry faces critical questions around business models, spectrum, device readiness, network architecture, interoperability, testing, and service assurance. From direct-to-device …

Cheap drone warfare has changed military strategy, and governments want cheaper anti-drone detection to keep pace. 6G-native ISAC has been rushed into late 5G-era networks in response. Ericsson explains how …

Cellnex said that Europe remains in the middle of its 5G adoption cycle, with 5G-enabled devices accounting for roughly half of mobile connections in Western Europe today In sum – …

A Maravedis long read about the Wireless Broadband Alliance white paper on “Wi-Fi Monetization & Business Models” – a genuinely useful map of today’s commercial models, the debate it connects …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Different moves from Liberty Global and Vodafone, the NTIA and AT&T, NTT Docomo and Ericsson, plus TIM, show how telcos are …

TIM sees additional growth opportunities in areas including defense, mission-critical services, AI-enabled products and operations, next-generation connectivity applications, and data centers In sum – what to know: Poste transaction – …

As connected vehicles, robots, and other physical AI systems cross borders, data sovereignty becomes about more than storage. Curtis Govan at Flolive argues regulators and operators must address “network sovereignty” …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): AI infrastructure is opening new opportunities for telcos, from data center connectivity to sovereign AI and defense networks. But the payoff …

Verizon, AT&T, and SK Telecom are betting big on AI infrastructure. But technology advisory group Omdia says the headline numbers are ceilings, and warns revenue will trail capacity growth for …

As enterprises shift workloads into colocation facilities, visibility gaps across shared infrastructure can undermine performance and resilience. End-to-end network observability, including packet-level inspection, helps IT teams identify faults faster, reduce …

From the newsletter (sign-up if you want it sooner): Vodafone’s full £4.3bn takeover of VodafoneThree in the UK and AT&T’s $23bn deal for EchoStar spectrum in the US signal telco …

A.X K2 packs 688 billion parameters and open weights In sum – what we know: SK Telecom has unveiled A.X K2, a 688-billion-parameter large language model that the company is positioning …

AI-RAN promises a software-driven path to greater capacity, programmability and operational efficiency The RAN’s next phase will not be defined by AI, cloud or openness in isolation, but by the …

As Boost Mobile has learned, service providers have to understand, “Where does AI bring value to the business and where does it not?” The telecom industry has spent the past …

Following years of demonstration experiments, Japan’s private 5G market is moving into operational deployment, with spending on track for a 55 percent CAGR through 2030 as port operators, manufacturers, utilities, …