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 …
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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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 …
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Radar, not standards, may be the faster path to ISAC drone detection In sum – what we know: Integrated sensing and communications, or ISAC, has become one of the more …
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AT&T chief John Stankey laid out a strategy built on fiber and 5G convergence, selective fiber acquisitions, and a future role connecting AI workloads across networks and clouds; he also …
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Nokia CEO Justin Hotard told a conference call with investors that the company’s growth is accelerating in the areas where it has chosen to focus and invest, highlighting AI-RAN as …
