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[NEW:]Webinar on Editorial: Enhancing Support for AI and Implementing AI—Achieving Widespread Intelligence in Telecommunications Networks.

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AI is helping CSPs optimize networks, predict maintenance needs, and automate operations to reduce costs and enhance service reliability. With AI-driven customer experience management, CSPs can personalize interactions, anticipate churn and streamline support—boosting customer loyalty. By operationalizing AI with AIOps frameworks, CSPs can efficiently deploy, monitor and scale AI models Yet, challenges remain: Join this … Read more

[NEW:]The SKYNET 6A satellite has successfully completed important tests in space.

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SKYNET 6A, part of the UK’s next-generation military satellite communication system, has successfully completed its initial phase of rigorous testing. The test was completed at the newly established, government-funded National Satellite Test Facility (NSTF) in Harwell, Oxfordshire. SKYNET 6 – a programme co-sponsored by Strategic Command and UK Space Command – is designed to provide… … Read more

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Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone targets business with mobile/Teams mash-up; Italy’s Lega party sticks up for Starlink; school smartphone ban off the table in UK.

[NEW:]Nokia presents evidence supporting the rapid growth of private 5G, highlighting an increase in devices, applications, and data traffic.

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MWC 2025, Barcelona | In the press room, late on the final day, trying to digest a bunch of briefings. Further coverage will follow, including (time permitting) about a Barcelona derby game between old rivals Nokia and Ericsson in the private 5G space – as a microcosm of this whole 5G event; an MWC in … Read more

[NEW:]Howard Watson from BT discusses the advancements in “AI that performs tasks,” the limitations of open RAN, and the emergence of sovereign clouds in the near future.

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Howard Watson, chief security and networks officer at BT, spoke with Light Reading at Mobile World Congress on the shift from generative AI to agentic AI, and he weighs in on how the way open RAN is being represented in big telcos now doesn’t line up with the original idea of having multivendor innovation in … Read more

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Pure Storage said it will leverage its modern storage expertise to enhance the Alliance’s ability to manage data storage needs Data storage solutions provider Pure Storage has joined the AI-RAN Alliance. According to the company, its products will drive the adoption of AI-RAN by meeting the demands of modern radio access network (RAN) architectures driving … Read more

[NEW:]Huawei introduces 5.5G solutions focused on artificial intelligence.

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Huawei has developed intent-driven AI-centric 5.5G solutions, which include GigaGear, GreenPulse and GainLeap BARCELONA—Chinese vendor Huawei announced the introduction of AI-centric 5.5G, or 5G-Advanced solutions at the Huawei product and solution launch event during Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2025. Cao Ming, vice president of Huawei and president of Huawei Wireless Solution, said: “Mobile AI … Read more

[NEW:]Jio Platforms, along with its collaborators, is set to create an Open Telecom Artificial Intelligence Platform.

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Jio said the new platform will incorporate open APIs and will utilize agentic AI, LLMs, domain-specific SLMs and non-gen AI machine learning techniques Indian company Jio Platforms, in partnership with AMD, Cisco and Nokia, has announced plans to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, with the main aim of … Read more

[NEW:]The Commerce Department is set to reassess the BEAD program, indicating a move towards prioritizing ‘lowest cost’ options and adopting a ‘technology-neutral’ approach.

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Commerce Secretary says the program “is in dire need of a readjustment” and emphasized “lowest cost” deployments The U.S. Department of Commerce is going to review the rules surrounding the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, prompting worries about further delays in the broadband infrastructure funding program under which all state and … Read more