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FWA adoption surges as speeds dip, Ookla finds

FWA adoption surges as speeds dip, Ookla finds

Hema Kadia December 16, 2025

A new analysis of U.S. fixed wireless access shows subscriber momentum outpacing performance, a signal that capacity and management strategies are under pressure. Fixed wireless access from T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T added about 1.04 million net customers in Q3 2025, taking the U.S. FWA base to roughly 14.7 million. T-Mobile remains the U.S. FWA speed leader, posting a median download around 209 Mbps in Q3 2025. Median uploads dipped below 20 Mbps across providers, creating a hurdle for the FCC’s 100/20 benchmark. Urban FWA customers are more likely to meet the FCC’s 100/20 threshold than rural users due to radio

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AI networking bottlenecks: Europe vs US | Nokia Report

AI networking bottlenecks: Europe vs US | Nokia Report

Hema Kadia December 16, 2025

Across roughly 2,000 decision-makers in telecom, data center, and large enterprises, a strong majority doubts that existing infrastructure will keep up with AI’s next wave. In the US, most respondents expect network buildouts to lag AI investment and call out near-term priorities such as optimizing bidirectional data flows, expanding fiber capacity, enabling real-time training feedback, and placing low-latency compute closer to users. In Europe, most enterprise leaders say current networks are not ready for broad AI adoption; many already report latency, throughput, and resiliency pain as data demands rise. The common thread is clear: without accelerated modernization, networks risk becoming

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6G XR: Holographic Calling on Live 5G SA

6G XR: Holographic Calling on Live 5G SA

Hema Kadia December 16, 2025

A European 6G-XR consortium led by Capgemini, Ericsson, i2CAT and Vicomtech demonstrated holographic calling and edge-anchored XR services on live standalone 5G, signaling how networks will evolve to support immersive collaboration at 6G scale. The team executed end-to-end trials of real-time holographic communication and distributed XR experiences spanning edge nodes across Barcelona and Madrid. To keep spatial media stable under cell load, the partners implemented proactive congestion detection and an on-demand quality mechanism that prioritizes holographic traffic. Notably, the consortium has referenced IMS Data Channel as a vehicle to anchor real-time holographic streams within operator service frameworks.

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AI at the Core of Modern Telecom OSS Networks : Unifying Operational Excellence, Revenue Growth, and Guest Experience

Meghraj Tambaku December 16, 2025

AI in telecom is often treated as a cost-saving tool. The leaders treat it as a business engine. Discover how AI at the heart of OSS reshapes operations, monetization, and customer engagement in one closed loop. Cutting costs with AI is easy. Compounding value with AI is hard. Learn how forward-looking operators embed AI into OSS to unlock sustained growth, resilience, and differentiation.

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Ofcom probes BT and Three UK outages

Ofcom probes BT and Three UK outages

Hema Kadia December 15, 2025

UK regulator Ofcom has opened formal investigations into BT (including EE) and Three after nationwide voice service outages this summer impaired access to other networks and to emergency services. BT notified Ofcom of a software-related failure that disrupted interconnect voice services to and from the EE mobile network on 24–25 July 2025. During the incident, many BT and EE customers could not complete mobile calls to other networks or reach emergency services. Three separately reported a UK-wide disruption to voice services on 25 June 2025, which also affected some customers’ ability to contact emergency services.

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Hybrid MoE + Mamba‑Transformer for Agentic AI

NVIDIA Nemotron 3: Hybrid MoE + Mamba‑Transformer for Agentic AI

Hema Kadia December 15, 2025

As enterprises move from single-model chatbots to collaborative multi-agent systems, the economic and operational burden of reasoning at scale is becoming the dominant constraint. NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 family introduces open models and tools designed to keep multi-agent systems fast, affordable and inspectable. The models use a hybrid latent mixture‑of‑experts design to activate only a fraction of parameters per token, combining it with a Mamba‑Transformer approach optimized for long sequences. Nemotron 3 Nano is a small, roughly 30B‑parameter model that activates up to 3B parameters per token, making it efficient for retrieval, summarization, assistants and software debugging.

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Orange to Fully Own MasOrange in Spain

Orange to Fully Own MasOrange in Spain

Hema Kadia December 15, 2025

Orange has signed a binding agreement to buy Lorca’s remaining 50% stake in MasOrange for 4.25 billion euros in cash, targeting completion in the first half of 2026 subject to customary approvals. The agreement transitions MasOrange from a 50:50 joint venture to a wholly owned subsidiary of Orange, consolidating governance and simplifying decision-making across mobile, fixed, and converged operations in Spain. At closing, MasOrange is expected to be fully consolidated into Orange’s accounts, including MasOrange debt that Orange plans to refinance at or after completion, providing flexibility to optimize the capital structure and cost of capital.

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Orange Money & Visa expand Africa digital payments

Orange Money & Visa expand Africa digital payments

Hema Kadia December 15, 2025

Orange Money Group and Visa are expanding a strategic partnership that brings a virtual Visa card into the Orange “Max it” app, letting users fund purchases directly from their mobile money balance for local and international e-commerce. The service is live in Botswana, Madagascar, Jordan, and now Côte d’Ivoire, with rollouts planned for Guinea, Burkina Faso, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Orange Middle East and Africa, which serves over 170 million customers in 17 countries and counts tens of millions of active mobile money wallets, this extends acceptance to the global Visa network while preserving the simplicity of

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Google AI Plus under $5 in India vs ChatGPT Go

Google AI Plus under $5 in India vs ChatGPT Go

Hema Kadia December 11, 2025

Google has introduced a sharply priced AI Plus subscription in India to push generative AI into the mass market and counter OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go. The AI Plus plan launches at ₹199 per month for new users for six months, then moves to ₹399 per month. The bundle raises usage limits for Gemini 3 Pro, unlocks video generation within Google’s apps, expands NotebookLM’s “deep research” capabilities, and adds 200GB of storage across Google Photos, Drive, and Gmail. Family sharing is included, signaling a household-centric growth strategy.

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