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Japan's SoftBank and OpenAI are reportedly discussing a deal that could see the telco become the ChatGPT maker's biggest single shareholder.

That title is currently held by Microsoft, which has so far ploughed $13 billion into OpenAI – more than any other individual entity.

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson managed to grow its revenues for a change in the last quarter of 2024, with the RAN business cycle becoming a bit more favourable.

To ensure that SMEs have a front-row seat to telecoms standards making, our Standards Champion, Andy Reid, attends key standards meetings to observe, participate in conversations and report back on key themes and discussion points.

Here, Reid shares his reflections on the recent 3GPP SA meeting in Madrid.

Escalating cyberthreats and AI anxiety are among the biggest risks telcos will face this year, according to EY.

According to the consultancy's annual top-10 ranking of telco risks, CSPs "face substantial challenges" to their status as data custodians.

Europe’s connectivity leaders, Nokia and Ericsson, alongside ASML and SAP, are spearheading a critical summit in Brussels today to drive a bold vision for the continent’s digital future.

UK mobile operator Three has selected Ericsson to build it a new cloud-native core network – replacing Nokia who has been doing the job since 2019.

Ofcom is looking to slash the time it takes to resolve telco customer complaints through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

ADR is available free of charge for telco customers either unhappy with the outcome of a complaint against an operator, or if their complaint goes unresolved after eight weeks.

​It’s that time of year again when we all gear up for the world’s biggest connectivity event! To keep the tradition alive, we’re excited to bring back the Telco WebWeaver MWC Social—a networking event where we’ll reconnect, strengthen partnerships, and, most importantly, celebrate friendships.

Amazon is investigating the possibility of creating a transatlantic subsea fibre optic cable that would stretch from Ireland to the US East Coast.

Vantage Towers, TOTEM, Orange, O2 Telefónica and the Saarland University of Applied Sciences (htw saar), announce a pioneering collaboration to create one of Europe's first cross-border 5G highway corridors. 

While 5G will become the dominant mobile technology in Europe by 2026, the mobile industry lobby group says ‘urgent policy reforms’ are needed to drive access to investment to keep the continent competitive globally.

Analyst Dell’Oro has revised upward estimates of total FWA equipment revenue for the 2023-2027 period by 17%, and says long-term subscriber growth is expected to occur in emerging markets in Southeast Asia and MEA.

• After a couple of declines, the global smartphone market grew by 6.4% in 2024
• Apple and Samsung are still the market leaders but their market shares dipped below 19%
• Xiaomi made great strides, growing its annual market share to 13.6%, according to IDC
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has called for collaboration between Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless technologies in its newly released 6G vision statement, warning that industry fragmentation could threaten the goal of achieving truly ubiquitous connectivity.

Telefónica is the latest global operator to be targeted by bad actors after hackers breached its internal ticketing system.

BleepingComputer reports that Telefónica admitted its systems had been breached, with the operator “currently investigating the extent of the incident”.

Ericsson has unveiled its generative AI-powered NetCloud Assistant (ANA).

In a bid to simplify 5G network administration, ANA reads, interprets and generates new text and graphical content, rather than just providing links to existing resources, like traditional chatbots, the telecoms giant revealed.

The US government has awarded just over US$117 million in funding for the development of commercially viable Open RAN hardware.

Spotlight on 5G is back! From 3-6 March, we’ll bring you comprehensive, multimedia coverage of the hottest industry news, game-changing announcements, cutting-edge solutions, and groundbreaking product launches that take place at MWC25.

T-Mobile US has agreed to buy out-of-home advertising specialist Vistar Media in a US$600 million deal in a bid to tap into non-telco revenue opportunities.

Essentially, this is a major telecoms operator having another crack at the advertising space despite the fact that many of its peers have failed before.

Vodafone Spain and MasOrange have officially signed a binding agreement to launch a new fibre network company in Spain.

Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe, people with knowledge of the matter said Sunday.

• China ended last year with almost 4.2 million 5G base stations, according to the country’s tech minstry
• That number is set to increase by more than 7% this year
• China’s three main operators already boast almost 1.2 billion 5G connections between them

A US appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) latest attempt to enforce network neutrality rules, ruling that broadband internet service providers (ISPs) are classified as offering “information services” rather than “telecommunications services”.