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ETSI's Research Conference, Maximising the Impact of European 6G Research through Standardisation, took place 6-8 Feb 2023 at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Free 6G Training produced this extensive summary of the event and key details.

Written by Mike Dano for LightReading.com

Verizon's financial outlook for 2023 is today much lower than what the company's executives outlined during Verizon's analyst day almost exactly a year ago.

Ericsson has expanded its indoor mobile connectivity portfolio with three new easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient solutions aimed at delivering 5G coverage, capacity and capabilities across the interior of any work or business environment – regardless of the size or complexity of the building.

• Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer IAIS, and Kliniken der Stadt Köln collaborate to develop AI agents for emergency room support
• Structured by medical priorities and serving as a documentation framework
• Blueprint for highly secure AI solutions within the AI Foundation Services

New analysis shows that high spectrum costs – now tripled compared to a decade ago – are slowing investment across Europe’s mobile sector, while policy reforms could unlock up to €30 billion.

The Linux Foundation has teamed up with key AI players, including OpenAI and Anthropic, to launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).

Vodafone can now more easily check and quickly deploy 5G software for its pan-European core voice network using a new automated testing platform jointly developed with Spirent Communications. As a result, software releases from multiple vendors can be checked and deployed in days, not months.

The Council has agreed on an amendment to the regulation that sets the framework for the activities of the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The amendment aims to establish Artificial Intelligence (AI) gigafactories in Europe and create a dedicated quantum pillar in the activities of the EuroHPC JU.

European mobile operators are looking to get the cost of renewing their spectrum licences renewed reduced by €30 billion over the next decade.

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Cloud-Delivered Security Continues to Outperform while Hardware-centric Segments Normalize

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.5% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.25 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

• Softbank and Yaskawa Electric are collaborating on the social implementation of a new type of AI by exploiting AI-RAN
• They will carry out integration analysis of different types of data in real time to offer robots capable of multiskilled functionality in multiple roles
• Data from sen

Nokia and du say they have implemented a 5G Advanced autonomous network slicing solution, promising “self-optimising 5G services for enterprises, industries, and consumers.”

Annual smartphone shipments will grow by a modest 3.3% this year, but more importantly, the market is on course to see a significant change in the global pecking order.

According to predictions shared by Counterpoint Research, Apple is expected to overtake Samsung in shipment terms for the first time in 14 years.

The future of the network slicing market is so bright as to be incandescent, if ABI Research's latest forecast is anything to go by.

The market for mobile radio access network equipment was essentially flat in the third quarter of this year, but growth continues at the core, according to new analyst data published this week.

Orange France and Ericsson are collaborating on several trials covering things like Massive MIMO radios, 5G energy-saving features powered by automation and AI, and cloud and Open RAN deployments.

During the Orange OpenTech event in Paris, Orange announces the launch of “Message Satellite”, a service that allows its customers based in mainland France to send and receive SMS messages as well as their geolocation via satellite when mobile or Wi-Fi coverage is unavailable.

• The tests confirm the importance of the 6 GHz band, considered the last opportunity for spectrum in mid-bands to deliver the mobile services of the future, offering high capacity and coverage comparable to the one offered by the 3.5 GHz band thanks to innovations such as Nokia's active antenna solutions.
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NTT Docomo has conducted what it says is the world’s first outdoor demonstration using real-time transceiver systems with AI-powered wireless tech, pitched as a 6G play.

New data released by analyst firm Omdia reveals that 41% of CSPs identified network management as the most significant area of impact for agentic AI.

Amazon’s satellite operation Project Kuiper has had its name changed to Amazon Leo, ‘a simple nod’ to the Low Earth Orbit satellites that make up its burgeoning network.