From the newsletter (September 8; sign-up if you want it sooner): Verizon is buying 80 million miles of Corning fiber through 2032 as it builds a converged network for broadband, …
AI Infrastructure Forum 2026
AI is shifting from training to inference, and two pressures now define the business: the end-user experience and the return on investment. RCR’s AI Infrastructure Forum returns to ask: can …
Report: Scaling Optical Networks For The Hyperscale And AI Era
AI is not just driving demand for more network capacity. It is fundamentally changing what networks need to do. AI workloads introduce a traffic profile unlike anything cloud computing has …
Wi-Fi Market Pulse Report: Scaling Wi-Fi 7, Preparing For Wi-Fi 8
As 6G still develops, Wi-Fi is stepping into the spotlight, not just as a complementary technology, but as a critical enabler of connectivity. With Wi-Fi 7 rolling out and Wi-Fi …
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From the newsletter (September 4; sign-up if you want it sooner): The killer-app narrative made sense for 4G, but 5G broke it. As 6G becomes part of a programmable communications …
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Tim Donovan, president and CEO of the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA), told RCR that rural carriers may be able to monetize existing land, fiber, and power assets through modular, edge-based …
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AT&T is stripping out its legacy copper network and making fiber and wireless the core of its business – with a converged service, enterprise push, and adjacent satellite integration all …
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Nokia’s new Cognitive Operations edge-compute platform for the mining sector, initially, looks familiar, and raises questions about the sale of its ECE business and its retreat from the ‘campus’ end …
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Steven Vondran, president and CEO of American Tower, said that the current phase of network deployment is increasingly focused on capacity rather than coverage In sum – what to know: …
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Wireless communications are being stretched to new limits across a host of uses and technologies: From preparation for 6G cellular networks and implementation of AI in the RAN, to current …
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Broadband Forum’s Matter API could give operators a second shot at the smart home – not by winning consumers with another app, but by making the gateway the neutral platform …
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AT&T is adding Amazon Leo to its enterprise connectivity mix as satellite moves deeper into terrestrial networks – and European operators eye D2D spectrum and US regulators push to expand …
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Rob Shore, head of optical networks solution marketing at Nokia Network Infrastructure, said AI is generating significantly more bandwidth demand between locations, including data centers, regions, and cloud environments In …
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The move toward 6G marks a shift from faster networks to intelligent, purpose-driven infrastructure. This webinar will explore how emerging capabilities like AI-native architectures, sub-THz spectrum, integrated sensing, and multilayer security …
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Connectivity, not just compute, will determine AI’s infrastructure future, argues former AT&T president Glenn Lurie. Drawing on the iPhone’s launch, he says operators, hyperscalers and technology companies must build together …
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In this episode, Jessica Herrala, Vice President of North America at Buildots, shares how three decades in construction led her from some of the industry’s largest contractors into the fast-moving …
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Prepaid wireless is still expanding, with store growth, broadband bundling and shifting retail fortunes reshaping the market – while Las Vegas remains the industry’s essential networking hub. The All Wireless …
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Speaking during the RCRTech Telco AI Forum, Gabriel Foglander, head of strategic RAN leadership at Ericsson, described AI-RAN as a bridge toward a broader shift to AI embedded across network …
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New executive appointments by Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US – plus Nokia and Orange as recent examples – show how the telecoms, tech, and industrial sectors are converging as a …
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Multicloud interconnect is free in preview, built for distributed AI workloads In sum – what we know: Microsoft and AWS have jointly launched a managed multicloud interconnect designed to create …
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Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have deployed a private 5G network at Hamburg’s Container Terminal Altenwerder, the latest chapter in a seven-year cellular experiment that shows how industrial 5G is a …
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Rémy Pascal, practice leader, mobile infrastructure and RAN lead analyst at Omdia, told RCR that Chinese equipment currently deployed in telecom networks in India has been operating for several years, …
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AI cameras on ordinary vans turn daily technician routes into wireline inspection In sum – what we know: SK Telecom has commercialized “Topdda,” an AI-powered inspection system that turns the …
