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 …
Orange wants Nokia’s AI RAN gains proven in a live network In sum – what we know: Nokia brought the spectral efficiency headline to the Intelligent RAN Forum — 20% …
From the newsletter (October 2; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Satellite is not about to replace terrestrial networks – but neither is the Starlink threat imaginary. As …
