And the picture remains gloomy into 2024.

New figures from Dell'Oro show a 5% year-on-year slide in the around US$100 billion market, a worse performance than it had expected, driven amongst other things by a slowdown in 5G and home broadband investments, as well as macroeconomic trends and the remains of a post-Covid hangover.

The news comes as something of a surprise, the analyst firm having reported 2% market growth in the first half of the year, albeit with Q2 coming in flat. Further, the slide follows five consecutive years of growth, the analyst firm said.

 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, today announced that it has updated its constellation filing with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and

A study by Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications, has found that the total number of OTT (Over the Top) messages will increase from 120 billion in 2023 to over 175 billion in 2025; a substantial growth of over 70% in two years.

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has announced a regulatory sandbox designed to support trials for direct to device satellite connectivity.

Anatel’s board of directors have implemented the sandbox in light of Brazilian mobile providers Claro and TIM’s plans to conduct trials with AST Space Mobile.

Brazil’s challenging geography means millions of people are left without cell coverage from terrestrial networks.

Hello, I’m Richard Auld and I am a Director at SICOM, a network consultancy business that specialises in optical fibre solutions and infrastructure. Using “dark fibre”—a fibre that has not been lit and is private to the customer—we connect buildings. 

One of the current projects that I am working on uses spare telco fibres to identify leaks in nearby water pipes. Our job is to find the available fibre and match it to five trial sites in an OFWAT-sponsored project, a fascinating task that has proved to be incredibly rewarding.

Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.

New bill requires at least 1,250 megahertz of spectrum between 1.3-13.2 GHz be auctioned for full-power, licensed commercial use

It has been slightly more than a year since the auction authority of the Federal Communications Commission was allowed to lapse, and a new, Republican-backed bill has been introduced that may generate some movement on the restoration of that authority and a legislative direction for midband spectrum development.

A research team at KAIST has developed the world’s first AI semiconductor capable of processing a large language model (LLM) with ultra-low power consumption using neuromorphic computing technology.
 
The technology aims to develop integrated circuits mimicking the human nervous system so that chips could be able to perform more sophisticated tasks that require adaption and reasoning with far less energy consumption.

Ericsson and Nokia are reportedly expanding their in-house chip design capabilities to better compete in the 5G era.

A report form Nikkei Asia indicates that the telecom giants will follow Huawei’s lead in designing chips, allowing both to improve network efficiency and differentiate wireless connectivity technology offerings from rivals.

According to the piece, Ericsson’s Freddie Sodegren, who heads the technology and strategy for business told the publication that it has been investing more in chip development over the past six or seven years.

The LLM generative AI chatbot can engage in human-like interactions with customers and handle more sophisticated customer requests.

VOXI by Vodafone has become the first telco in the UK to develop and deploy a large language model (LLM) chatbot to transform its digital customer services.