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 lack of effective network monetization despite a massive capital outlay which is putting pressure on automation as the primary...
Demand forecasting and anomaly detection are AI capabilities that Google sees as accelerating numerous additional use cases.
A very material amount of all internet traffic, around 60% to 70%, runs through the Google Global Network. In reaching that scale, the company has learned a lot...
As AI use cases crystallize and general technology is adapted for domain specificity, in this case, telecoms, the song remains the same—aligning investment with opex reduction and monetizable service delivery. AI has a clear role to play but in the context of networks that...
Tech Mahindra will also use Google Cloud's AI technologies to develop AI-powered applications for critical business areas
Tech consulting company Tech Mahindra and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership with the main aim of boosting generative AI (gen AI) adoption and lead digital transformation for...
Following hard on the heels of a similar-sounding deal with Google Cloud, Hitachi has announced a three-year partnership with Microsoft with a major focus on generative AI (gen AI) for its own staff and services, as well as for enterprise customers, notably in the...
Hitachi and Google Cloud have signed a multi-year deal to collaborate on generative AI for Industry 4.0. Hitachi is to form a brand new business unit which will use Google Cloud’s large language models and development platform, plus other cloud technologies, to underpin its...
Telefonica also said it is currently using Google Cloud internally to advance in its own digital transformation
Spanish carrier Telefonica and Google Cloud announced the renewal and extension of their partnership to help businesses accelerate their digital transformations.
The European operator noted that the agreement includes...
Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune
Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and provide cloud and generative AI products to its existing business customers, which...
KPMG will deploy Gemini for Google Cloud for internal use as part of the agreement
U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG is working with Google Cloud on the responsible acceleration and adoption of generative AI (GenAI) technologies. As part of the partnership, the pair are establishing...
Sustainability is fast becoming a business imperative for the telecoms industry, driven by factors such as the UN's Race to Zero Campaign, rising energy costs, complex 5G deployments and heightened customer and shareholder expectations.RCR Wireless News' latest report, a companion piece to Telco Sustainability Forum, deep...
AT&T said it is looking at trying to turn some circuits down as users migrate from legacy technologies such as DSL to fiber
Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users for more data while at...
Saving energy, in a network context, ultimately means that somewhere along the line, user experience could be impacted. Perhaps coverage or throughput ticks downward, or users are shifted from one cell to another.
In a session at the recent Telco Sustainability Forum virtual event...
Reality or just a dream: how will AI, automation, and cloud technologies help communication service providers (CSPs) lower network energy costs 25% by 2025?
How can cloud-native operations and CI/CD simplify and accelerate sustainability efforts for CSPs, especially in optimizing energy usage in the RAN?
What...
Google recently invested $2 billion in Anthropic
San Francisco-based generative AI startup Anthropic has revealed that it will be one of the first companies to deploy new AI chips from Google. The announcement comes just a few weeks after Google confirmed a $2 billion investment...
At an Industry 4.0 showcase at the MxD Institute, Betacom, Google Cloud and Ingram Micro discussed the importance of collaboration
Last week, RCR Wireless News attended an Industry 4.0 showcase at the Factory Floor Lab in the Digital Manufacturing (MxD) Institute in Chicago, where private...
Private network specialist Betacom, cloud provider Google Cloud, and IT distributor Ingram Micro have opened an Industry 4.0 showcase at the Factory Floor Lab in the Digital Manufacturing (MxD) Institute, located at the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing in Chicago in the US....
The 'deep use of AI' can drive hyper personalization through carriers' omni channel products
During a session at Google Cloud Next ’23, Ankur Jain, VP, Google Cloud for Telecom and Google Distributed Cloud, said that Google is using AI and data to help CSPs “reimagine...
Telefónica Tech, the digital services and enterprise transformation unit with Spain-based telecoms group Telefónica, has a new deal with enterprise data services provider Snowflake, to sell the US firm’s hybrid edge-cloud (“multi-cloud”) services to enterprises in Europe. Telefónica Tech is to bundle Snowflake services...
It's important to look at AI holistically and to not rule out more traditional machine learning models, says Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta
Anything can be AI (Artificial Intelligence), Google Cloud’s VP/GM Sachin Gupta, told RCR Wireless News at Google Cloud Next, which took place last week...
NVIDIA CEO: 'This isn’t computing the old-fashioned way; this is a whole new way of doing computing'
SAN FRANCISCO - At this week’s Google Cloud Next conference, Google announced that generative AI technology from NVIDIA is now available and optimized for Google Cloud users. The...
Vertex AI and Duet AI were both unveiled at Google I/O in May
SAN FRANCISCO - This week, Google announced new capabilities for its Vertex AI platform, as well as the general availability of its Duet AI assistant across its suite of Workspace apps. Vertex AI and...
It is easy to be benevolent when you’re top-dog. Which is true in life, of course – and is not to say that goodness should be graded by the relative comfort of the do-gooder. But what goodness is there in a boardroom, really? Because...
The pair will also explore using cloud tools to address Qatar Airways' sustainability goals
Qatar Airways has selected Google Cloud to help it decipher the large amount of data generated from its millions of passengers. Using Google’s data analytics, AI and machine learning (ML) solutions,...
First impressions count – and the trains are late, the stairs are broken, and the food is wrong. This is not the fabled German efficiency we came here to discuss – and see projected into the digital age across 17 cavernous halls of the...
