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The AI bubble will burst fast, then the real work begins (Reader Forum)

Perspectives from MWC24 and where we go from here You wouldn’t know it from the 12-foot high letters adorning booths throughout the halls of Mobile World Congress, but the AI bubble is about to pop. Soon, it won’t be enough to simply be “doing” AI or...

Using gen AI and traditional AI to achieve autonomous networks (Reader Forum)

When new technology ignites as much hype and expectation as generative artificial intelligence (gen AI), there’s bound to be a fair amount of uncertainty in the early days over what use cases the technology can be applied to, what problems it will solve, and...

Intel showcases ‘AI Everywhere’ vision at MWC

With focuses from client to edge to RAN to core, Intel is all-in on AI for 5G Mobile World Congress was big for Intel. In the larger sweep of 5G network disaggregation and automation, Intel has already built out a big partner ecosystem on its...

An innovative call to synergize network AI with ICT (Analyst Angle)

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are overhauling networks for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) future: investing heavily in AI solutions to address current challenges, collaborating across organizations (e.g., Artificial Intelligence Operations (AIOps)), and reforming within them (e.g., centralizing AI teams). As comprehensive as these accommodations for...

Is telecoms focusing on how without asking why?

BARCELONA—I know the show is over but I’m leaving the dateline on because, of course, I’m still here. Mobile World Congress was good; so good, in fact, it’ll take me a few months and a couple of off-schedule visits to my therapist to make...

MWC 2024: AI everywhere

BARCELONA—Artificial intelligence is dominating conversations and sessions at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, with telecom companies and their vendors all working to figure out—or support the exploration of—just what AI can do for telecom, both in terms of benefits and risks. "It's the most...

Five operators officially launch global telco AI alliance

The companies said they aim to launch a joint venture company as part of this global telco AI alliance MWC, Barcelona— Deutsche Telekom, e& Group, Singtel, SoftBank and SK Telecom officially launched the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) at MWC Barcelona 2024. During the launch event,...

NVIDIA: Telco AI investment still in ‘early phase’ 

In its “State of AI in Telecommunications: 2024 Trends,” respondents tell NVIDIA telco AI solutions are already “improving both revenues and cost savings”  The subhead of this article pretty well tells the story: NVIDIA research based on a survey of operators shows there’s widespread interest...

Nokia building ‘AI-RAN’ offering with NVIDIA

The partnership combines Nokia RAN software and Layer 1 acceleration with NVIDIA CPUs for Layer 2 processing and GPUs for AI and vRAN acceleration Network equipment providers are rapidly working with partners to bring artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to bear as operators go through major...

Ericsson, Indian Statistical Institute sign joint research agreement

Ericsson said that the agreement with ISI will be valid for a three-year period Swedish vendor Ericsson announced that it has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) for multiple research activities, the former said in a release. The agreement, which will...

Telco AI Forum 2024

The Breakthrough Moment: Time for Telco to Step Up?

Ericsson, IIT Kharagpur partner for research in AI, edge compute

Ericsson and Nokia will collaborate towards developing novel AI and distributed compute technology towards 6G research Swedish vendor Ericsson and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) announced a long-term cooperation for joint research in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), compute and radio. Under the...

Jio Platforms launches ‘Jio Brain’ AI-based platform

Jio said the the new platform had been launched following two years of research and development Indian company Jio Platforms has created an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, dubbed Jio Brain, which will integrate machine learning (ML) capabilities in a telecom operator’s network, enterprise network, or...

Qualcomm reports double-digit Q1 growth in handsets and automotive

Qualcomm grew revenue 5% compared to Q1 2023 despite contraction in the IoT business Growth in its handset and automotive businesses led Qualcomm to first quarter 2024 revenues of $9.9 billion across its licensing and connectivity segments. The company reported 16% growth in handsets and...

GSMA, IBM partner on telco AI workforce training

IBM Global AI Adoption Index finds three biggest barriers to AI success are limited skills/expertise, data complexity and ethical concerns Enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is on a major ramp and communications service providers (CSPs) are no exception. In fact the IBM Global AI...

2024 will be a catalyst for accelerating 5G Standalone/5G Core deployments (Reader Forum)

The telecom industry always expected that taking the next step in 5G network evolution, moving to full 5G Standalone (5G SA) networks, would be a heavy lift. And indeed, 5G SA network deployments saw sluggish growth last year, largely due to the technical challenges...

Three ways digital twins can optimize Open RAN 5G networks (Reader Forum)

As 5G mobile networks grow in complexity, it’s becoming impossible for human network engineers to manage the network without automation. The evolution from rules-based automation to the use of AI/ML is creating a category of management solutions that can anticipate problems in the network...

Juniper lays out vision for AI-native networking

Juniper CEO on AI-native vision: “No application downtime or performance issues” As HPE works to expand its networking business through the acquisition of Juniper Networks--a deal widely regarded as all about bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to bear “from edge to cloud to exascale” as HPE...

Whether with PCs, data center or foundry, or all three, Intel will capitalize on AI

Intel Foundry Services sees more than 100% growth in 2023 It was a mixed bag from Intel this week as the company reported fourth quarter financials. The client computing group (CCG) showed strong growth compared to the same quarter in 2022, but data center and...

IBM up in Q4 on AI consulting and software

For enterprise AI, “Flexibility of deployment is key,” according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna IBM this week reported a 4% year-over-year increase in revenue to $17.4 billion in the fourth quarter, and full-year revenue up 2% to $61.9. In prepared remarks, CEO Arvind Krishana primarily...

Telco AI Deep Dive: From cloud-native to AI-native

In the sweep of everything that could be as construed as “tech,” artificial intelligence (AI) is leading the current hype cycle with visions of broad productivity gains enabled by cloud computing, large language models (LLMs), natural language processing-based user interfaces and text/image generation capabilities....

Telecom trends—2024 and beyond [Reader Forum]

I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, I have seen lots...

Is gen AI the steam engine of Industry 4.0?—the view from Davos

Employee re-skilling and regulation are key AI considerations; the CEOs of Accenture, IBM and Qualcomm share AI outlooks form the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI), how it works, how it should work, who should care, why and what it all...

Intel CEO on the three laws of edge computing, and what it means for AI

During a CES keynote, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted “at least” a 10-year AI super cycle as automation is brought into different industries AI everywhere—that’s the new tagline from Intel as it optimizes its silicon for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, and partners with its growing...