Iain Morris

Rampant demand for AI has led to component shortages and driven up chip costs for network equipment vendors. Customers may eventually pay.

Without the wholesale competition a Netomnia takeover would create, the UK could be stuck with a dominant Openreach, says Nexfibre CEO Rajiv Datta, citing new research.

Promoted last October, Abdu Mudesir quit the top tech job at Deutsche Telekom just a few months later and has now popped up at Verizon.

Having already pitched its GPUs for use in RAN compute's servers and appliances, Nvidia is working on an offer that would go directly into radios.

As it celebrates its 150th anniversary, Ericsson must contend with an ongoing slump in customer spending, 6G and geopolitical uncertainty, and the relentless march of AI.

European defense groups aim to switch from outdated proprietary systems to 4G- and 5G-based civilian networks, creating more trouble for Chinese vendors.

Nvidia's plans to build a chip for the radio unit have not changed minds at Ericsson about the economic rationale for doing purpose-built 5G.

No one now believes telcos will employ more people in the future – the only uncertainty is over how much the workforce will shrink.

Talk of wacky AI use cases is creeping into the 6G conversation, and the technology path from 5G could be bumpier than operators hoped.

As Donald Trump cuts foreigners off from the most advanced American AI, Mavenir's CEO encourages the world's telcos to reinvent themselves as AI companies.