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How Cellnex is boosting renewable energy use in telecom networks

Cellnex is both generating and purchasing renewable energy to help meet its sustainability goals As the main tower company in Europe, with a portfolio of...

Four ways network transformation supports sustainability

As a new generation of technology replaces legacy networks, there are opportunities for increasing efficiency, and therefore, sustainability of networks. In the current shift...

Four ways that Telus works to implement sustainability

Telecommunications service providers are seeking to cut costs and reduce their environmental footprint by increasing their overall efficiency. At the recent Telco Sustainability Forum...

Vodafone Business on how to serve both customers and the sustainability agenda

Vodafone Business sees sustainability as a strategic imperative and customer demand As Vodafone Business sees its customers pushing the boundaries on sustainability, it is taking...

Why, and how, telecom is thinking about sustainability

Motivations, practical considerations and more influence how the industry defines sustainability How the telecom industry thinks about—and defines—sustainability lead to its priorities and actions, and...

Three IoT trends to watch for – Wireless Logic on 2025

The internet of things (IoT) continues to grow apace as more industries connect devices for commercial and operational reasons. Transforma Insights forecast global IoT...

LoRaWAN in 2025 – 10 predictions from Semtech (Reader Forum) 

The IoT landscape is poised for innovative developments. Central to this transformation is LoRaWAN, which has steadily established itself as a cornerstone of IoT...

Six big trends driving telecom sustainability in 2025

Operators face growing pressures to improve telecom sustainability Network operators are facing increasing pressure to improve telecom sustainability, and it's coming from multiple directions:...

‘Every day there are new networks’ — a Wi-Fi OpenRoaming update

In a new WBA report, 81% of respondents said they are planning to deploy Wi-Fi OpenRoaming According to a new report from the Wireless Broadband...

Four metrics of energy efficiency in telecom networks

Energy efficiency in telecom networks is challenging to measure and understand As the saying goes, you can't improve what you can't measure. And mobile network...

Ten IoT predictions for 2025 – from Transforma Insights

IoT continues to be a dynamic and evolving field, with 2025 set to bring key transitions in technology, market dynamics, and regulatory frameworks. Transforma...

Four ways AI/ML is used in Wi-Fi systems

The Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Standing Committee is tasked with exploring AI/ML use cases that will apply to Wi-Fi systems and devices Artificial intelligence (AI)...

What is the global status of 6 GHz Wi-Fi?

IDC predicts that 807.5 million 6 GHz Wi-Fi devices will ship in 2024, up 66% in 2023 In April 2020, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

How to right-size edge AI for easy enterprise consumption

An edge AI “easy button” for enterprise digital transformation In their own effort to better (and more profitably) serve enterprise customers, CSPs are going through...

Why is the edge the “Goldilocks” location for edge?

BT talks monetizing edge AI, creating a global connectivity fabric and the future of conversational networks Back in June at a telecoms industry show, BT...

Self-X vs. zero-X—Turkcell on the path to AI-native

As Turkcell adopts AI, initial use cases include energy savings, customer complaint forecasting and radio link failure prediction Looking back at the technological jump from...

Eureka moments, snowball effects, whack-a-mole – multiplying private 5G apps

One more private 5G panel write-up, and it’s another cracker. Here, Peter Cappiello, chief executive at Future Technologies, Johnathan Lewis, director of innovation at...

What is AI and RAN multi-tenancy and orchestration?

Three workload distribution models are emerging for AI-RAN — RAN-only, RAN-heavy or AI-heavy In November, SoftBank announced that it successfully piloted the world’s first combined...

‘Zero traffic, zero energy’ — How will AI enable dynamic network management?

Energy consumption is one of the biggest factors of OpEx, says AI-RAN Alliance Chair Alex Jinsung Choi The reduction of operation expenses (OpEx) is a...

The big telco AI challenge—the right data for the right use case

Google Cloud sees telco AI "absorption rate” as an “incredible phenomenon”  Communications service providers (CSPs) are all-in on AI; makes sense given macro issues around...

‘A thousand repeats of the same conversation’ – four challenges to make private 5G scale

There are a whole bunch of headaches, of course, that come with scaling private 5G systems to new venues and new markets. Even if...

‘We have to get there’ — AT&T talks RAN modernization strategy

AT&T says it will shift 70% of its network traffic onto open and interoperable platforms by 2026 as part of its RAN modernization plan Last...

What does a programmable data plane mean for telco AI?

Telefonica: “I think one of the killer apps of network programmability can be ML”  Before diving into the role of a programmable data plane in...

How will cloud and AI define future network architectures?

Nokia sees gen AI enabling conversational networks in three to five years Nokia recently laid out its vision for a future network architecture that’s all...

Simplicity, efficiency, safety – three (more?) enterprise drivers for private 5G

There was some good chat about the drivers behind the surging interest from enterprises in private 5G at Industrial 5G Forum earlier this month....