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American Tower Projects 5G and AI to Double Network Capacity by 2030

American Tower Projects 5G and AI to Double Network Capacity by 2030

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

American Tower’s latest outlook puts a hard number on a trend most operators feel on the ground: the network needs to double by the end of the decade to absorb 5G, fixed wireless access, and AI-driven traffic. Mobile data growth remains the primary engine for new network investment. As 5G adoption scales and fixed wireless access expands, capacity pressure is shifting from coverage to throughput. The next leg comes from AI. New applications—from on-device inference to computer vision at the edge—demand more bandwidth, tighter latency, and stronger uplink. That profile is different from today’s downlink-heavy usage and will stress radios,

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TELUS Digital AI in Telecom: Scaled 20+ GenAI use cases on Fuel iX

TELUS Digital AI in Telecom: Scaled 20+ GenAI use cases on Fuel iX

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

TELUS Digital is using Mobile World Congress 2026 to move the AI-in-telecom conversation from pilots to proven production at scale. TELUS Digital reports processing more than two trillion tokens in 2025 through its Fuel iX generative AI platform for TELUS operations and customers. The portfolio spans AI for customer experience, application safety, and network modernization—built and battle-tested within TELUS before client rollout. The Network Design Services practice applies AI to planning and optimization while charting a path from legacy network stacks to cloud-native, automated environments.

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5G Healthcare at Scale: GSMA Foundry and NUHS

5G Healthcare at Scale: GSMA Foundry and NUHS

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

A new collaboration between GSMA Foundry and Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) aims to operationalize connected health at scale, with Ericsson and Singtel anchoring the 5G foundation. Healthcare digitization has moved from pilots to production, but most sites still struggle with deterministic connectivity, secure data exchange and workflow integration. The program combines private 5G with digital twin, XR, IoT and ambient AI to improve outcomes and operational resilience across care pathways. Early focus areas include 5G-enabled remote surgical assistance with ultra-reliable, low-latency links; immersive XR training and simulation that compress learning curves; autonomous and semi-autonomous robotics for logistics and

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SK Telecom ATHENA: AI-Native 6G Blueprint

SK Telecom ATHENA: AI-Native 6G Blueprint

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

SK Telecom introduced ATHENA—an architecture grounded in AI-native operations, Zero Trust security, hyper-connectivity, openness, and cloud-native design—to guide mid- to long-term evolution across RAN, core, transport, and network data platforms. The operator positions “AI for network” and “network for AI” as dual tracks: the former embeds AI into decision loops for autonomous optimization, while the latter tunes the network fabric to serve AI workloads efficiently. SK Telecom will showcase related technologies at MWC Barcelona 2026, including AI agents for networks, AI-RAN for combined connectivity and compute, device-side AI for antenna tuning, and integrated sensing-and-communications.

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European Edge Federation: DT, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, Vodafone

European Edge Federation: DT, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, Vodafone

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM, and Vodafone unveiled a live, pan‑European edge federation at MWC 2026, marking a practical step toward an interoperable edge cloud that spans national borders. The five largest European operators demonstrated the European Edge Continuum, a federated edge capability now running in lab and pre‑production environments. The initiative provides a single entry point to deploy and manage applications across multiple operators’ edge nodes, with automated placement, security controls, and mobility‑aware continuity. The platform draws on components developed under the IPCEI‑CIS program backed by the EU’s NextGenerationEU funds, and is positioned for industrialization and commercial rollout next.

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Deutsche Telekom telco cloud cuts 5G core energy by up to 65%

Deutsche Telekom telco cloud cuts 5G core energy by up to 65%

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

Deutsche Telekom’s early live results showing up to 65% energy savings in its 5G core spotlight a pragmatic path to cut opex and carbon as traffic surges and standalone 5G scales. Operators have wrung out much of the easy efficiency from hardware refreshes; the next gains come from software-driven, demand-aware control. DT is applying that logic to the core, shifting components to run only when needed rather than idling at full power. The results are enabled by DT’s “Horizontal Telco Cloud,” a unified, standards-based platform that replaces fragmented stacks with one common layer for core services. Initial live-network tests have

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Nokia and AWS Launch Agentic AI for 5G-Advanced Network Slicing

Nokia and AWS Launch Agentic AI for 5G-Advanced Network Slicing

Hema Kadia February 25, 2026

Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are bringing agentic AI to 5G-Advanced network slicing, moving closed‑loop, intent-based services from PowerPoint to live pilots with du and Orange. The partners unveiled an agentic AI-powered slicing solution that fuses Nokia’s RAN-to-core slicing, AirScale radio, and MantaRay SMO with AWS’s Bedrock AI platform and EKS Hybrid Nodes to turn external context—events, traffic, maps, weather—and live network KPIs into real-time policy decisions. The result is adaptive, premium slices provisioned when and where they’re needed, without manual reconfiguration.

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The Future of Digital Identity: How AI is Enhancing Authentication and Fraud Prevention

The Future of Digital Identity: How AI is Enhancing Authentication and Fraud Prevention

Jeremy Blackburn February 25, 2026

As digital life expands, traditional passwords are no longer enough to protect users from rising fraud and identity theft. Artificial intelligence is transforming digital identity by enabling smarter authentication, real-time fraud detection and adaptive security systems. By balancing innovation with privacy and trust, AI is helping build a safer, more seamless online future.

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Samsung 6G trial hits 3 Gbps at 7 GHz with X‑MIMO

Samsung 6G trial hits 3 Gbps at 7 GHz with X‑MIMO

Hema Kadia February 24, 2026

Samsung Electronics, working with KT Corporation and Keysight Technologies, has demonstrated 3 Gbps peak downlink in outdoor tests using an ultra‑dense antenna system and X‑MIMO in the 7 GHz band. The field trial took place at Samsung’s Seoul R&D Campus and pushed eight concurrent spatial streams from a base station to a single user device. The key enabler was a radio unit that packs roughly four times the antenna elements of today’s 5G massive MIMO gear into a similar physical footprint. Shorter wavelengths at 7 GHz make that density feasible without expanding the radio size.

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Claude Code Security: AI finds 500+ vulnerabilities

Claude Code Security: AI finds 500+ vulnerabilities

Hema Kadia February 24, 2026

Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, an AI capability that reviews codebases, flags complex vulnerabilities, and proposes patches with human oversight, and its early results should change how security leaders plan for AI on both offense and defense. Anthropic reports that its latest Claude Opus 4.6 model helped uncover more than 500 vulnerabilities in production open-source projects, including issues that had persisted for years. The product centers on high-signal findings, structured triage, and human-in-the-loop remediation so it can slot into existing DevSecOps workflows.

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