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Verizon partners with Eaton Fiber for FTTP expansion

Verizon partners with Eaton Fiber for FTTP expansion

Hema Kadia October 27, 2025

Verizon signed a commercial agreement with Eaton Fiber, an affiliate of Tillman Global Holdings, to extend fiber-to-the-premises service well beyond its current Fios footprint and the locations it expects to add through its planned Frontier deal. The structure is straightforward. Eaton Fiber will fund, build, and operate the local access network. Verizon will handle sales, marketing, and customer care and gain full residential retail exclusivity on the new builds during deployment and for a subsequent period. Fiber is the control point for converged services.

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Vodafone GenAI RIC Accelerates 5G Open RAN rApps

Vodafone GenAI RIC Accelerates 5G Open RAN rApps

Hema Kadia October 27, 2025

Vodafone is partnering with Irish firm Zinkworks on Rapid RIC, a central platform that blends secure data analytics, a visual low-code interface, and code-generating AI to create and operate RAN applications, or rApps. The goal is ambitious but specific: cut time-to-market from months to weeks, scale deployments across markets, and improve service quality, capacity, and energy use. The platform is slated for early 2026 availability and will run primarily on Vodafone’s private Google Cloud Platform environment. Rapid RIC uses GenAI to generate production-grade code from visual designs, enabling radio engineers to turn domain knowledge directly into software without deep AI

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Vodafone Germany cuts fibre broadband prices to speed DSL migration

Vodafone Germany cuts fibre broadband prices to speed DSL migration

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

Germany’s migration from copper to fibre is entering a price-led phase, and Vodafone is sharpening fibre offers to pull DSL users across the line. Germany has the fibre footprint but not the take-up: many households still cling to DSL and VDSL even where FTTH is available, leaving operators running two networks and straining economics. The emphasis is on choice, transparency and avoiding dual-running costs—nudging, not forcing, customers to move. Price becomes the immediate lever to move hesitant households and SMEs off copper, especially in multi-dwelling units where permissions, in-building wiring and installation coordination add friction.

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Nokia Shifts Focus to AI and Network Infrastructure

Nokia Profit Beat as AI Demand Lifts Optical Networks

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

Nokia delivered a stronger-than-expected third quarter, with comparable operating profit reaching €435 million against consensus of about €342 million. Group net sales rose 12% to €4.83 billion, above forecasts, driven by Optical Networks and cloud-related demand tied to AI data centers. The stock jumped double digits intraday and added billions in market value, reflecting newfound confidence after a challenging first half. The recovery now is concentrated in network infrastructure rather than mobile RAN, underscoring where customers are actually spending to handle AI-era traffic patterns. Nokia nudged its full-year operating profit outlook to €1.7–2.2 billion, with a reporting change related to

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Palantir and Lumen $200M Enterprise AI Partnership at the Edge

Palantir and Lumen $200M Enterprise AI Partnership at the Edge

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

A new partnership between Palantir and Lumen Technologies signals a shift from internal AI pilots to packaged enterprise services delivered over a telecom-grade edge and network footprint. Palantir will provide its Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) as the data and decisioning layer for Lumen’s enterprise AI offerings, which Lumen plans to deliver on top of its edge computing nodes, broadband infrastructure, and managed digital services. The companies position this as a multi-year, strategic collaboration focused on operational AI use cases, not just experimentation. While exact terms were not disclosed, multiple reports indicate Lumen’s total spend could exceed $200 million

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AT&T Q3 2025 Results: Wireless, Fiber Growth and Cash Flow

AT&T Q3 2025 Results: Wireless, Fiber Growth and Cash Flow

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

AT&T’s third quarter shows steady operational execution in wireless and fiber, supported by portfolio moves that aim to strengthen capacity, reach, and cash generation through 2027. AT&T reported Q3 2025 revenue of $30.7 billion, up 1.6% year over year, with diluted EPS of $1.29 boosted by a gain related to the sale of its DIRECTV investment; adjusted EPS was $0.54, roughly flat year over year. Free cash flow improved to $4.9 billion from $4.6 billion a year ago, a key metric for debt reduction and capital returns. AT&T’s cross-sell between fiber and mobility is showing tangible traction in both net

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Deutsche Telekom device recycling drive

Deutsche Telekom device recycling drive

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

Germany’s largest operator is turning e-waste into engagement currency with a take-back drive that mixes material recovery with headline incentives. Deutsche Telekom estimates 195 million unused phones are sitting idle in Germany, locking up valuable materials and ESG progress. The company is reframing those devices as an urban mine—rich in gold, copper, and critical minerals—and as a lever to scale circularity ahead of its 2030 ambition to make all IT and network technology, and most end-user devices, recyclable or reusable. By the end of 2024, the operator had already taken back more than 11 million phones across the group.

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Google Cloud G4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Google Cloud G4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

The G4 family is built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and targets high-throughput inference, visual computing, and simulation. Each VM can be configured with 1, 2, 4, or 8 GPUs, delivering up to 768 GB of GDDR7 memory in total. Fifth-generation Tensor Cores introduce FP4 precision to drive efficient multimodal and LLM inference, while fourth-generation RT Cores double real-time ray-tracing performance over the prior generation for photorealistic rendering. Google cites up to 9x throughput over G2 instances, positioning G4 as a universal GPU platform spanning AI inference, content creation, CAD/CAE acceleration, and robotics simulation.

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Amazon AI smart glasses for delivery drivers

Amazon AI smart glasses for delivery drivers

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

Amazon is piloting AI-enabled smart glasses for delivery associates to streamline last‑mile workflows, adding a hands‑free heads‑up display that blends navigation, scanning, and proof‑of‑delivery into the driver’s field of view. The company is testing delivery‑specific smart glasses that use on‑device computer vision and AI to identify packages, surface hazards, and guide walking routes from the vehicle to the doorstep without requiring a phone in hand. When a van is parked, the device activates and shows the next task: find the right parcel in the vehicle, traverse complex environments like multi‑unit buildings, and confirm delivery with visual capture.

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Ubiik Earns Anterix 900 MHz Certification for Private LTE

Ubiik Earns Anterix 900 MHz Certification for Private LTE

Hema Kadia October 24, 2025

Ubiik has secured Anterix certifications for its router and base station, signaling readiness for private LTE deployments on Anterix’s 900 MHz Band 106 spectrum. Anterix awarded Anterix Active badges to Ubiik’s Pyxis 5G LPWA RA810 router and its goRAN+ base station, confirming they meet Anterix operating criteria for 900 MHz private LTE. In addition, the high-power Pyxis RA320X variant received an Anterix Capable badge, validating a 28 dBm transmit option that extends reach compared to standard 23 dBm LTE modules. Together, the router and RAN designations give utilities and critical infrastructure providers a tested, end-to-end path to deploy pLTE on

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