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This is difficult to write. It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights …

IBM spinoff Kyndryl is teaming up with VMware to offer app modernization and hybrid cloud efforts for its customers worldwide.

SpaceX’s proposed acquisition of Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio strengthens Starlink Mobile’s push into terrestrial wireless. But coverage is not capacity, and building a competitive nationwide network could cost …

Wi-Fi 8 could give ISPs a new line of defense against AI-driven cyberattacks, embedding inference hardware in residential gateways. Airties CEO Metin Taskin argues operators must pair next-generation chipsets with …

Speaking during Deutsche Telekom’s AI Investor Day, John Saw, chief technology officer at T-Mobile highlighted Customer-Driven Coverage (CDC) as one of the company’s biggest AI-driven changes in how it approaches …

From the newsletter (October 8; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Starlink’s regulatory approvals, Vodafone’s merger savings, and AT&T’s fiber investments reflect a telecoms market reshaping around scale …

Uplink growth is real, but the capex discipline holds In sum – what we know: Deutsche Telekom does not expect AI-related mobile uplink demand to require incremental radio-access-network investment in …

EXA Infrastructure says transatlantic capacity is running out way earlier than forecast, prompting it to build a new 500-terabit subsea cable, the first of its kind for the industry in …

David Selby, director of global network planning and acquisition at AWS, told RCR that the system is designed to address concentration risk in existing transpacific infrastructure by using new landing …

The gigabit promise stops at the socket. Europe’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act takes fibre into new buildings, but its Wi-Fi spectrum policy leaves the final metres unresolved. In dense apartment blocks, …

Starlink Mobile’s real constraint might not be satellite coverage but capacity per square kilometer. A new model, offered up by Vish Nandlall, suggests where population density forces satellite service back …

During the RCR Wireless News‘ Intelligent RAN Forum 2026, Viavi marketing manager Owen O’Donnell and Battelle vice president of product development Mark Reudink examined the evolution of open and intelligent …

Intelligent RAN Forum panel says AI-RAN efficiency pays, demand doesn’t yet In sum – what we know: AI is already paying for itself in the radio access network through energy …

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 …

From the newsletter (October 6; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Schneider Electric is to buy PTC for a cool $22.6bn – to consolidate its stake in the …

Hospitals increasingly need DAS to solve three problems at once: public-safety compliance, clinical connectivity and security. Wilson Connectivity argues that analog architecture can simplify lifecycle costs, reliability and HIPAA-related risk …

US 6GHz Wi-Fi adoption is accelerating, with Ookla showing six-fold growth since 2024 and Cisco reporting 48% usage at BottleRock. More power, AFC and simpler access could push adoption further. …

From the newsletter (October 5; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): AI is proving its value in telecoms – mostly in customer service, plus some enhanced automation cases …

Zayo chief network officer Troy Lupe told RCR that the company sees a significant difference between the current investment cycle and the network expansion wave of the 2000s In sum …

AI-RAN performance gains won’t justify the investment on their own In sum – what we know: Operators are being told AI will transform the radio access network, with the idea …

Ericsson is framing AI RAN as a two-sided transformation: networks must use AI to improve their own performance while also evolving to support a new generation of AI applications In …

The Hugging Face intrusion by AI agents raises a harder question: can systems learn to evade the safeguards designed to control them? Vish Nandlall argues that falling violation rates may …

As mmWave moves beyond hotspot deployments, the challenge is extending high-frequency coverage without simply adding more base stations. Kyocera’s multi-hop repeater validation points to a more flexible network architecture for …