T-Mobile has raised its full-year guidance, but its earnings call pointed to bigger bets ahead: more spectrum spending, edge compute economics, and AI-driven network efficiency – as it, again, rejects …
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 …
Industrial Wireless Forum 2026
AI has overtaken networking as a top concern for industrial leaders. Massive data workloads are putting pressure on legacy infrastructure never designed to support them — and industries risk falling …
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 …
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Speaking during Telia Company’s third-quarter earnings call, the company’s chief executive officer and president Patrik Hofbauer said the operator was expanding commercial 5G standalone capabilities for connectivity, security and new …
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New 6G reference-device types, higher uplink modulation for fixed wireless access and open questions on migration as Release 21 takes shape What you should know: As discussed in our previous …
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From the newsletter (October 28; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Amazon Leo’s $11.5bn Globalstar deal intensifies the direct-to-device satellite race, while Bell Canada’s tower valuation highlights infrastructure’s …
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Only 16% of GenAI deployments have reached network operations, and most operators are still at TM Forum autonomy Levels 2-3. The reason isn’t a lack of AI. It’s that nobody …
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Speaking during Verizon’s third-quarter earnings call, the telco’s chief executive officer Daniel Schulman said the company had developed an FWA solution using its millimeter-wave spectrum that will enable it to …
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In this episode, Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer of Digital Realty, shares his perspective on what it really takes to scale AI infrastructure beyond the hype. Drawing on more than …
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Boldyn Networks is betting on neutral-host fiber, sites and power to support successive radio generations, prioritizing US expansion and owner-funded converged networks while remaining cautious on private 5G, Open RAN, …
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Sensing, physical AI and spectrum lead the 6G business case In sum – what to know: 6G monetization will depend on selling business outcomes and intelligent automation rather than connectivity …
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From the newsletter (October 27; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Orange, AT&T and Verizon are improving earnings through commercial growth and cost discipline, while telcos place bets …
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Crown Castle chief Chris Hillabrant told a conference call with investors that continued spectrum investment in the U.S. and an expected FCC auction of approximately 800 MHz provide a supportive …
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Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio says 6G needs an architectural rethink to handle AI-driven uplink demand, avoid repeating 5G’s standardization mistakes, and embed autonomous network operations and commercial use cases from …
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From the newsletter (October 26; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Verizon has raised its full-year guidance for the third consecutive quarter, signed $4 billion in AI infrastructure …
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Why site-specific channel modeling matters once 6G radios start sensing In sum – what to know: For years, the wireless industry has leaned on standardized statistical models to test and …
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For much of the AI era, the spotlight has been firmly fixed on models and compute. Bigger models, more GPUs and larger AI clusters have defined the race to build …
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Elisa recently ran what it claims to be Europe’s first voice, mobile data, and video analytics simultaneously on the same AI-RAN platform over Elisa’s 5G Advanced network In sum – …
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Bullish Nvidia proclaims AI-RAN work with Nokia as EMEA telcos pile in (and AI markets grow twitchy)
Nvidia and Nokia (and a rush of operators) have announced progress with AI-RAN – a year to the day practically after Nvidia pumped a billion into the Finnish firm. The …
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AI agents could reshape internet traffic by shifting work from customer devices to distributed computing networks, changing where data travels, how capacity is used and which providers control routing, connectivity …
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From the newsletter (October 23; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): SpaceX is reportedly targeting at least 80,000 US cell sites for Starlink Mobile, signalling a costly push …
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During a session at RCR’s 6G Forum, Derek Khlopin, deputy associate administrator of NTIA’s Office of Spectrum, said the U.S. is pursuing a significant pipeline of spectrum for future wireless …
