SK Telecom invested a total of $7.2 billion in U.S. startups Allganize and Imprimed
Korean carrier SK Telecom has invested a total of KRW 9.4 billion ($7.2 billion) in artificial intelligence (AI) startups Allganize and Imprimed, local newspaper The Korea Economic Daily reported.
As part of...
The GSMA noted that 5G-Advanced will facilitate entirely new applications in areas such as smart transportation, smart cities and entertainment
The launch of future 5G-Advanced networks will enable telecom operators to monetize their previous investments in the 5G field, Barbara Pareglio, senior technical director, smart...
Enabling on-device gen AI applications across its portfolio is a clear priority for Qualcomm
Following a strong set of gen AI announcements at its Snapdragon Summit last week, Qualcomm reported earnings on Nov. 1, and the story may be coalescing for investors as the company’s...
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 gets major upgrade to NPU and other subsystems; features a 5G-Advanced ready modem-RF system
Last week at its Snapdragon Summit on Maui, Qualcomm product launches and messaging focused on the company’s role in delivering AI-powered experiences across its portfolio. While the...
Fujitsu believes that 5G-Advanced will contribute to the realization of technologies necessary for immersive multi-modal VR, smart home and smart city
5G-Advanced (5G-A) is expected to be commercially launched around 2026, Hiroyo Masuda, senior architect of 6G infrastructure, strategic planning division of advanced technology development...
Nokia expects the first release of the 5G-Advanced standard, Release 18, will be completed by 3GPP in the first half of 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will play a key role in future 5G networks, Peter Merz, head of Nokia Standards, told...
SK Telecom and Mars Auto will work to collect and analyze data needed to develop advanced self-driving technology
Korean’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom (SKT), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a local autonomous vehicle startup with the aim of collaborating on advanced technology...
The new set of chip restrictions hitting China are designed to close loopholes in existing regulations
The U.S. Department of Commerce has escalated its efforts to restrict the sale of advanced chips to China after loopholes in last year’s export restrictions were discovered. This time, the...
Entertainment and recreation SMBs report the highest use of AI
Some small to medium businesses (SMBs) are already thinking about the ways that artificial intelligence could be applied to their businesses, to help them deal with challenges including inflation and cybersecurity—but they also have a...
Softbank telco AI strategy includes working with NVIDIA on network automation and adding AI overhead into 5G RAN compute
As interest and investment in artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, NVIDIA has emerged as the undisputed leader in using its accelerated compute architecture and...
SK Telecom initially applied this technology to the backbone section of the Seongsu and Boramae neighborhoods in capital Seoul
Korean carrier SK Telecom announced the deployment of what it claims to be South Korea’s first 400 Gbps high-capacity wired network, used in its 5G mobile...
e& will partially own telecom assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia once regulatory approvals are granted
DUBAI-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—Emirati-based telco e& is currently undergoing a process through which the telco aims to transform from a regional telco in the Middle East to a global...
The Singaporean carrier said the new offering, dubbed Singtel CUBΣ, adopts a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach
Singaporean operator Singtel announced the launch of a new suite of network solutions and services aimed at " the digital network infrastructure" of enterprises.
The new offering, dubbed Singtel CUBΣ, adopts...
This week, Geetha Ram, the head of telco compute at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, tells a story about her grandmother, details the relationship between Open RAN and AI and explains the difference between in-line and look-aside acceleration for Open RAN silicon.
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Intel sees the combination of 5G and AI as “transforming dreams into reality”
Intel has been an ecosystem and market leader as operators turn to new virtualized and open 5G RAN architectures. With silicon support, partnerships and reference designs for vRAN and Open RAN, Intel...
Panelists at Open RAN Forum discussed how AI and automation will 'uncover' a great deal of power savings for telco operators
Energy efficiency has become a major priority for operators as they look to contribute to environmental sustainability efforts, as well as lower the operational...
SK Telecom aims to develop a personal AI assistant service that can attract global customers
Korean operator SK Telecom (SKT) announced its ambition to become a global artificial intelligence (AI) company by strengthening its own AI competitiveness and cooperating with partners globally.
SKT’s CEO Ryu Young-sang...
Nokia said that one of the areas of focus of the lab will be on private wireless and industrial networks
Finnish vendor Nokia said it will launch an open innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, with the main aim of driving regional innovation and accelerating the...
In our lifetimes we've been witness to some rare yet truly transformative moments. The arrival of the World Wide Web is an obvious one; the launch of the iPhone is another in 2007. Well, we're amid the next truly transformative moment: the advent of...
Call center analytics and customer interactions among key telco AI use cases being discussed in boardrooms
In the latest of our ongoing Telco AI Deep Dive series, Capgemini Americas Principal and NA Lead, AI & Analytics, Ajay Mohan draws on the firm's own research around...
Cisco will buy cybersecurity firm Splunk for $28 billion
In its largest acquisition to date, Cisco has entered an agreement to buy cybersecurity firm Splunk for $28 billion as part of a larger effort to increase recurring software revenue to its bottom line. Cisco...
AI players Qualcomm, Huawei, Betacom, Juniper Networks, Cisco, Celona
The AI event in Washington, DC yesterday should be your radar for what it said and what it did not say. Listening to the current raging debate, Artificial Intelligence is big, important and is also a...
Data-driven, software-first operations are key to telco AI success
Greenfield Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, alongside its spin-off network equipment and software vendor Rakuten Symphony, has always done things in a markedly different way as compared to legacy telcos. Instead of sprawling workforces versed in different...
Design, data, network and organizational strategies are key to effective telco AI adoption
Under its current CEO, IBM has put artificial intelligence (AI)—along with hybrid cloud, automation and security—at the center of its software and services strategies. Speaking with RCR Wireless News for the Telco...
