AI sovereignty for Germany and Europe: Deutsche Telekom launches one of Europe's largest AI factories with NVIDIA

  • Up to 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs will power a 0.5-EFLOPS supercomputer, delivering around 50 percent more AI computing power for Germany 
  • Sovereign Deutschland-Stack: SAP solutions will provide the technology platform for easy integration of AI solutions
  • From idea to launch in six months 
  • Strengthens sovereignty together with industrial growth, creating more jobs and opportunities in Germany
  • Strong partner ecosystem creates wide and diverse usage  
  • A one-billion-euro partnership

Deutsche Telekom, together with NVIDIA,

Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz collaborate on AI-powered 6G receiver to cut costs, accelerate time to market

  • AI-powered receiver technology using machine learning can greatly enhance future 6G coverage, creating cost savings and accelerating time to market.
  • The AI technology identifies and compensates for distortion in wireless signals, leading to substantial improvements in 6G uplink coverage.
  • Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz will demonstrate the technology at the Brooklyn 6G Summit from November 5-7.

Nokia and the test and measurement company Rohde & Schwarz have created and successfully tested a 6G radio receiver that uses AI technologies to overcome one of the

Subsea cable linking USA and Ireland unveiled by AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Fastnet, a new transatlantic subsea fibre-optic cable system linking Maryland, USA, and County Cork, Ireland.

Fastnet, which is expected to be operational in 2028, has been designed to improve network resilience by adding a new, independent data route across the Atlantic.

The new cable will feature advanced optical switching technology, enabling seamless rerouting of data as future network needs evolve.

UK Future Networks experimentation platform for research and industrial innovation launches first international expansion

The Joint Open Infrastructure for Networks Research (JOINER), a UK-wide experimentation platform created to accelerate future communications and networks research, exploitation and adoption, has announced that its first international connection is live at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, opening up new potential for collaboration and innovation.

Global smartphone shipments grew 3% in Q3

According to the latest Omdia numbers, the global smartphone market shipped 320.1 million units in Q3 2025, representing a 3% year-on-year hike.

This signals a recovery from the muted performance seen in the first half of the year, says Omdia, which was blighted by rising uncertainty following the Trump administration’s tariff policy and related supply chain restructuring, as well as “cautious channel sentiment” caused by slow retail traffic and inventory adjustment by vendors.

Vodafone under pressure as O2 inks Starlink deal

Virgin Media O2 has signed a deal with Starlink that will see it bring direct-to-cell services to the UK in the first half of next year.

The mobile operator clearly views the addition of satellite-based communications – mainly messaging and basic app functionality at the outset – as a competitive advantage; it is not shying away from telling us that it is the first in the country to buddy up with Elon Musk's Starlink, the poster child for direct-to-cell.

Cisco Delivers AI Innovations across Neocloud, Enterprise and Telecom with NVIDIA

Cisco becomes the first partner to offer a NVIDIA Cloud Partner compliant reference architecture with new data center switching solutions. Together, Cisco and NVIDIA provide customers ultimate flexibility as they build critical AI infrastructure. 

 

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ETSI ISAC industry specification group sets strategic direction for 6G with renewed leadership

ETSI is pleased to announce the appointment of the new leadership team for the Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) Industry Specification Group (ISG) for its second two-year release, commencing 17 November 2025. The renewed leadership team will continue the work of accelerating ISAC pre‑standardisation efforts to facilitate 6G development and contribute to forthcoming specifications in key global standards, including 3GPP and IEEE 802.

Following the election on 21 October 2025, the ISAC ISG will now be led by the following leadership team:

Nvidia and US telecom leaders unveil the all-American AI-RAN stack to accelerate the path to 6G

NVIDIA  announced America’s first AI-native wireless stack for 6G, including new applications to advance next-generation wireless technology, in collaboration with industry-leading partners Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC and T-Mobile.

As AI moves beyond smartphones to cameras, augmented-reality glasses, robots, autonomous vehicles and other devices, wireless networks face mounting demand to support billions of connections at unprecedented scale and efficiency.

Early coverage improvements from VodafoneThree merger revealed

Mobile network analytics firm Opensignal says network sharing between the newly merged operators has unlocked significant coverage improvements.

A key pillar to VodafoneThree’s cunning plan to make the combined entity greater than the sum of its parts is the Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) technology, which allows customers of both operators to connect automatically to whichever of the two networks offers the better signal at a given time and place. The company announced an acceleration on the MOCN rollout in August.