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Nokia and Deutsche Bahn have activated a commercial-grade 5G Standalone network on the 1900 MHz band to validate Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) operations on live tracks. The partners have launched a 5G SA deployment using the 1900 MHz (n101) spectrum band on DB’s digital railway test field in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), Germany. The network is built with Nokia AirScale radio equipment and an optimized, cloud-native 5G core, and it operates on moving trains on outdoor tracks. The setup includes built-in failover, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to sustain service continuity in mission-critical environments.
Siemens and TRUMPF are aligning digital platforms and machine-tool expertise to tackle the long-standing integration gap between enterprise IT and shop-floor OT—laying groundwork for AI-enabled, software-defined manufacturing. The partnership centers on open, interoperable interfaces that connect CNCs, robots, sensors, and enterprise systems without brittle, bespoke integrations. Digital twins of machines and lines—paired with standardized interfaces—let teams test control logic, validate process changes, and train AI models before they hit the floor. The companies are positioning their combined ecosystem as a credible path to “AI readiness” for motion-centric operations where latency, determinism, and safety are non-negotiable. An edge-first data fabric can normalize time-series, vision, and event data for low-latency decisions, while cloud services handle training and fleet-scale analytics.
SK Telecom has been named OpenAI’s exclusive B2C partner among Korean carriers as OpenAI opens its Korea office, signaling an aggressive push to scale consumer AI access and localize go-to-market in a strategically important market. The two companies unveiled a promotion for ChatGPT Plus, giving new or returning subscribers who purchase one month two additional months at no cost. While the immediate focus is consumer-facing, SK Telecom indicates the partnership will extend toward business services and potential collaborations across the broader SK Group.
Meril Life Sciences, headquartered in Vapi, Gujarat, has introduced the Mizzo Endo 4000, a soft tissue robotic platform engineered for general, urology, gynecology, thoracic, colorectal, bariatric, hepatobiliary, ENT, gastrointestinal, and oncology procedures. Built and designed in India, the system targets precision, access, and cost barriers that have historically limited adoption. It pairs AI-powered 3D anatomical mapping with an open console design and immersive visualization, while enabling remote collaboration and telesurgery over high-performance 5G networks. Strategically, this positions India to compete with incumbent systems from Intuitive Surgical, Medtronic, and CMR Surgical, while appealing to price-sensitive markets across Asia and Africa.
Ericsson is embedding an agentic AI framework into its NetCloud platform to accelerate self-healing, intent-driven operations across private 5G, Wireless WAN, and SASE. Ericsson is evolving its AI assistant, ANA, from a prompt-based helper into a multi-agent system that can interpret high-level intents, plan workflows, and coordinate specialized agents to act across the enterprise networking stack. Ericsson’s rollout will be staged. A troubleshooting orchestrator is planned for Q4 2025 to handle high-frequency pain points such as offline devices and degraded radio conditions, with a projected reduction in downtime and support cases by more than 20 percent.
Telefónica is translating years of network automation into tangible Level 4 autonomous operations in targeted domains—an inflection point for service quality, cost, and speed at 5G scale. Under its Autonomous Network Journey (ANJ), Telefónica is aligning to the TM Forum Autonomous Networks framework and pushing selected processes to Level 4—closed-loop autonomy with minimal human oversight. The company reports a 70% reduction in flapping-related service impact and removal of manual work in these incidents, advancing this use case to Level 4 maturity. The operator cites 80% faster analyses for planning, operations, and optimization; a 40% drop in capacity issues; more than 90% reduction in sites experiencing high load with widespread customer impact; and a 5% latency improvement via virtual optimization prior to rollout.
KT disclosed that IMSI information for 5,561 subscribers may have been exposed in connection with a wave of fraudulent mobile payments starting August 27, concentrated in parts of southwestern Seoul. As of midweek, authorities tallied 278 unauthorized transactions totaling roughly 170 million won. KT reported the incident to the Personal Information Protection Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency, notified impacted users, and pledged compensation. A government special team has begun a coordinated probe, and the science minister publicly pressed KT to cooperate fully and restore trust.
The quarter’s growth underscores a resilient access capex cycle despite macro uncertainty, with fiber and fixed wireless access (FWA) deployments offsetting sluggish cable spend. Fiber PON platforms and 5G FWA customer premises equipment (CPE) drove the uptick, while DOCSIS infrastructure outlays fell 13% year over year on weaker Remote PHY Device (RPD) purchases and a slowdown in new virtual CMTS (vCMTS) licenses. The competitive center of gravity in broadband is shifting. Operators prioritizing XGS-PON rollouts and 5G FWA are growing faster and spending more, while cable operators are pacing upgrades and deferring some distributed access architecture (DAA) investments.
SpaceX’s $17 billion purchase of EchoStar spectrum signals a deliberate push to blend satellite and mobile connectivity at consumer scale. SpaceX is acquiring EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-Block licenses, adding roughly 1.9–2.0 GHz spectrum into its portfolio for direct-to-device (D2D) service in the U.S. Owning licensed spectrum lets SpaceX widen capabilities beyond roaming-style add-ons, potentially toward a branded service that spans home broadband and handset connectivity. A two-year window for first compatible handsets is a realistic baseline. Analysts broadly expect Starlink to expand via partnerships: wholesale arrangements to MNOs for satellite fallback, and potentially an MVNO to bring a Starlink-branded phone plan to market.
The Small Cell Forum’s 2025 Market Forecast points to a market shifting from experimentation to scaled deployment, with enterprise demand and new business models driving a faster cadence. SCF forecasts cumulative small-cell shipments to reach 61 million units by 2030, supporting an installed base of roughly 54.4–54.5 million radio units and annual vendor/integrator revenues of about USD 4.23 billion. Indoor enterprise deployments continue to dominate, representing about 60% of rollouts in 2023–2024. SCF expects 5G SA small cells to grow at a 56% CAGR through 2030, with two-thirds of enterprise small cells co-located with edge compute by 2030.
T-Mobile for Business will serve as the Official Telecommunications Services Provider for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, positioning the event as a high-stakes proving ground for end-to-end 5G operations, broadcast connectivity, and fan experience at unprecedented scale. The LA28 organizing committee plans to run events across more than 110 connected locations, including over 40 competition venues distributed throughout Southern California. That footprint transforms LA28 into a distributed, city-scale network project where wide-area 5G must interoperate with venue networks, edge compute, and broadcast infrastructure under peak, dynamic loads.
Hitachi Rail’s Hagerstown factory is now powered by a secure Private 5G Network, thanks to GlobalLogic and Ericsson. This digital transformation enables smart manufacturing capabilities such as predictive maintenance, digital twins, AI-driven inspections, and real-time automation—positioning the plant as a benchmark for Industry 4.0 in North America.

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