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The evolving operations challenges enterprises face related to coverage, capacity, reliability, and control require new communications capabilities beyond traditional public networks. These challenges coupled with emerging technologies are pushing private 4G or 5G networks to the market faster.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch one million satellites into Earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence.

The application claims "orbital data centres" are the most cost and energy-efficient way to meet the growing demand for AI computing power.

Hello, I’m Lauren Hawker Zafer, the Chief Operating Officer at Squirro, an enterprise generative AI-solutions provider. I am also the host of the multi-award-winning Redefining AI podcast, which explores the application of AI from a sociological, physiological, and psychological perspective. 

There were 1.56 billion fixed broadband subscriptions in the world as of the end of the third quarter of last year, with growth driven by increased fibre uptake, particularly in some key markets.

According to a report by analyst firm Dell’Oro, worldwide RAN will grow by 1% CAGR over next five years.

Hello, I’m Jay Gupta, the Global Head of Industry Solutions for the TMT sector at Quantexa, a British software company; we are one of the few ‘unicorns’ in the UK software space. 

Smartphone makers could be in for a bumpy ride next year, as surging memory prices make devices more costly to produce.

Port of Tyne, BT, and Ericsson boast that they’ve clocked new operational gains from a private 5G network powering real-time video analytics, sensors, and connected equipment across the site.

People in the UK largely failed on resolutions to use their phones less in 2025, according to new data from Virgin Media O2, which shows that, amongst other things, AI usage is on the up.

Artificial intelligence is "becoming increasingly normalised," VMO2 declared as it published its Year in Review on Wednesday.

The UK regulator Ofcom has launched two probes investigating mobile operators EE (BT) and Three over their summer network outages.

• 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

Hello, I’m Andy Bates, a Chief Product Officer and co-founder of StonesThro, which is a UK-based micro-edge cloud start-up.

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.

The weak telco appetite for a 6G hardware splurge is already prompting some big shifts at Ericsson and Nokia.

Standard smartphones to receive signal from space 

BT announced the launch of a sovereign platform which will deliver a pioneering suite of new digital sovereignty services for the UK private and public sector.

Semiconductor solutions firm Marvell has agreed to acquire Celestial AI, which makes an optical interconnect technology platform for AI computing called Photonic Fabric.

A report by satellite firm Viasat claims 60% of customers would pay more for direct-to-device satellite services.

The report was conducted by GSMA Intelligence and surveyed more than 12,000 mobile phone users across 12 markets, quizzing them about their views towards satellite services.