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IBM to Acquire Confluent for Real-Time Enterprise AI

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent for $31 per share in cash, signaling a decisive move to make real-time, governed data the backbone of generative and agentic AI across hybrid cloud environments. The transaction values Confluent at an enterprise value of roughly $11 billion, with closing targeted by mid-2026 pending ...

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Why Airtel–Perplexity and Jio–Gemini Offer Free Premium Access

AI in India: Why Airtel–Perplexity and Jio–Gemini Offer Free Premium Access

A cascade of offers from OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity—amplified by Airtel and Reliance Jio—signals a deliberate push to convert India’s scale into durable AI usage, ...

SoftBank-OpenAI JV launches localized enterprise AI in Japan

SoftBank-OpenAI JV launches localized enterprise AI in Japan

SoftBank and OpenAI have formed SB OAI Japan, a jointly owned entity that will commercialize “Crystal intelligence,” a bundled enterprise AI offering focused on management ...

OpenAI–AWS B AI Compute Deal

OpenAI–AWS $38B AI Compute Deal

OpenAI has signed a multi‑year, $38 billion capacity agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run and scale its core AI workloads on NVIDIA‑based infrastructure, ...

Google Cloud Study: 52% Deploy AI Agents, Driving ROI

Google Cloud Study: 52% Deploy AI Agents, Driving ROI

Google Cloud’s 2025 ROI of AI study signals a step-change: AI agents are now in production at scale and delivering measurable business outcomes. The study, ...

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SPECTRUM CONTROVERSY THE ROLE OF THE 6 GHZ BAND IN INDIA’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS FUTURE

India 6 GHz Spectrum: Wi‑Fi vs IMT Showdown

A high-stakes policy fight has emerged in India over the 6 GHz band, pitting global device and cloud ecosystems against mobile operators over whether the ...

Private 5G CBTC Validation: CAF and Cellnex

Private 5G CBTC Validation: CAF and Cellnex

CAF’s signalling division and Cellnex demonstrated that OPTIO, a modular and multi-bearer CBTC platform, operates reliably on a private 5G network in both lab and ...

Ericsson deploys Neutral Host 5G Small Cells at 10 World Trade

Ericsson deploys Neutral Host 5G Small Cells at 10 World Trade

A new neutral host 5G deployment at 10 World Trade in Boston’s Seaport sets a practical blueprint for scalable, multi-operator indoor connectivity in Class A ...

Private Network Deployments

EMSTEEL & e& UAE: Private 5G for Smart Manufacturing

EMSTEEL & e& UAE: Private 5G for Smart Manufacturing

A landmark private 5G pilot at EMSTEEL with e& UAE signals how industrial networks in the region are evolving from connectivity add-ons to strategic infrastructure. The pilot delivers dedicated, high-speed wireless coverage across complex industrial spaces that are often hostile to traditional Wi‑Fi and public cellular. For manufacturers in the UAE, this is a meaningful milestone: it showcases a path to secure, deterministic wireless that can carry safety-critical and time-sensitive workloads on the shop floor. Private 5G gives factories a foundation to adopt connected worker tools, real-time quality control, AI-assisted operations, and digital twins without moving sensitive data off-site.

ZTE & China Unicom deploys Private 5G ISAC for Airport Security

ZTE & China Unicom deploys Private 5G ISAC for Airport Security

ZTE, China Unicom Liaoning and Dalian Changhai Airport have put a 5G-Advanced private network with integrated sensing and communications into live service to address low-altitude ...
Private 5G for Croatia’s Smart Airports | Hrvatski Telekom

Private 5G for Croatia’s Smart Airports | Hrvatski Telekom

Hrvatski Telekom will deploy dedicated private 5G networks at Zagreb, Zadar, and Pula airports under a €5.6 million “NextGen 5G Airports” program co-financed by the ...

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Satellite connectivity drives telco churn and ARPU

Satellite connectivity drives telco churn and ARPU: Viasat Report

New consumer research commissioned by Viasat and executed by GSMA Intelligence signals that non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are becoming a mainstream buying factor for mobile subscribers. The survey of more than ...

INDIA NEARS POSITION AS TOP TWO GLOBAL 5G ECOSYSTEM: MINISTER ASHWINI VAISHNAW

India’s DoT spectrum sharing rules for 5G

The Indian government has floated draft rules that refine how mobile operators can share spectrum, aiming to boost spectral efficiency and accelerate 5G expansion under the new telecommunications regulatory framework. ...

2024 U.S. Broadband Capex: .6B Investment

Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR Real-Time Fiber Repair Pilot Improves CX in France

Work at local distribution points often triggers unintended service cuts, driving spikes in complaints, repeat truck rolls, and SLA penalties. By empowering on-site technicians to detect and remediate cuts instantly—rather ...

FCC approves AT&T–UScellular 5G spectrum deal

FCC approves AT&T–UScellular 5G spectrum deal

The FCC has approved AT&T’s agreement to acquire a portfolio of UScellular wireless spectrum licenses for $1.02 billion, advancing AT&T’s mid-band capacity strategy and reshaping competitive dynamics in U.S. 5G ...

Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery B Deal

Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery $72B Deal

Netflix plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets in a $72 billion transaction that could reshape streaming, theatrical distribution, and the broader media supply chain. The cash-and-stock ...

India’s Adani seeks up to  billion investment in Google data center to join AI boom

Adani Invests $5B in Google India AI Data Center

Adani $5B with Google to reshape India’s AI hyperscale landscape Adani Group is preparing to invest as much as $5 billion alongside Google in a new AI data center campus ...

Vodafone boosts power resilience at 10,000+ emergency mobile sites

Vodafone boosts power resilience at 10,000+ emergency mobile sites

Vodafone is accelerating a multi-year resilience programme to keep emergency and critical services online during grid failures, an issue that is moving from rare-event planning to board-level risk management. In ...

Deutsche Telekom & Schwarz plan EU-backed AI data centre in Germany

Deutsche Telekom & Schwarz plan EU-backed AI data centre in Germany

Two German heavyweights are in advanced discussions to co-build large-scale AI data centre capacity in Germany, a move that would tap European Union funding and accelerate sovereign AI infrastructure. Deutsche ...

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AST SpaceMobile D2D service by early 2026

AST SpaceMobile D2D service by early 2026

AST SpaceMobile is signaling a pivotal year ahead as it moves from demonstrations to commercial direct-to-device coverage with major operators and an aggressive launch schedule. ...

BT and Starlink LEO Broadband for Rural UK Homes

BT and Starlink LEO Broadband for Rural UK Homes

BT Group and its consumer brand EE plan to offer a Starlink-powered home broadband product focused on underserved locations where fixed-line build is constrained by ...

Orange SafetyCase adds OneWeb LEO for crisis connectivity

Orange SafetyCase adds OneWeb LEO for crisis connectivity

SafetyCase—Orange Business’s portable emergency telecoms unit—now bonds terrestrial access with OneWeb’s LEO satellite backhaul to keep voice, data, and video online when fixed and mobile ...

India Satcom Rollout Nears After TRAI Spectrum Pricing

India Satcom Rollout Nears After TRAI Spectrum Pricing

India is poised to greenlight commercial satellite communication services once TRAI issues final pricing for satellite spectrum use and associated charges. The communications minister indicated ...

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