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

2024 U.S. Broadband Capex: $89.6B Investment

Industry capex remained exceptionally strong in 2024, underscoring broadband’s status as critical infrastructure for the digital and AI economy. Broadband providers invested an estimated $89.6 billion in U.S. communications infrastructure last year, pushing cumulative investment since 1996 to more than $2.2 trillion and keeping the 2020–2024 average above $90 billion annually. Spend concentrated on fiber deepening, rural reach, wireless capacity, and overall network scale for AI, cloud, and streaming workloads. While 2024 trailed 2023’s higher tally, it still signals a sustained, competitive race to modernize fixed and mobile networks.

GM to Add Google Gemini AI to OnStar in 2026

GM to Add Google Gemini AI to OnStar in 2026
General Motors will begin rolling out a Google Gemini–powered conversational assistant across Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, and GMC in 2026, advancing the automaker’s in-cabin AI strategy and resetting expectations for voice-driven services in connected vehicles. GM plans to deliver a new assistant, built on Google’s Gemini family, as an over-the-air update via the Play Store to eligible OnStar-equipped vehicles from model year 2015 and newer. At launch, drivers should see more natural interactions: the assistant will understand free-form requests, maintain context across turns, and cope better with accents and phrasing. GM says the assistant will tap vehicle data to push maintenance alerts and route suggestions as well.

Verizon Private 5G and Neutral Host for Hospitals

Verizon Private 5G and Neutral Host for Hospitals
Hospitals are turning to a dual-network model that pairs neutral host coverage with private 5G to handle surging data, device density, and distinct user groups across large clinical campuses. Healthcare networks are stressed by electronic health records, telehealth, connected medical equipment, and higher patient expectations for always-on mobile service. A combined neutral host and private 5G architecture lets IT leaders segment traffic and policy by role and use case, align with data sovereignty requirements, and scale capacity as device fleets and AI-driven workflows grow. The model separates public cellular access for general users from dedicated private 5G for clinical and operational workloads.

T-Mobile 5G-Advanced: Edge Control and T-Platform

T-Mobile 5G-Advanced: Edge Control and T-Platform
T-Mobile US expanded its Advanced Network Solutions portfolio with Edge Control and T-Platform, aiming to deliver private network-like performance over its nationwide 5G-Advanced footprint while simplifying how enterprises deploy, govern, and scale edge workloads. Edge Control enables cellular traffic to exit locally and flow directly into an enterprise’s edge compute environment, rather than traversing centralized cores or the public internet. T-Platform is T-Mobile’s customer portal for managing business services, including Edge Control. Traditional MEC offers low-latency access to hyperscaler edge zones but often relies on internet or backhaul paths that add jitter and sovereignty concerns.

Jio 5G Nears 50% of Mobile Base

Jio 5G Nears 50% of Mobile Base
Jio closed the quarter ended 30 September with 234 million 5G users, up 86 million year-on-year and now approaching half of its 506.4 million total mobile base. Financial momentum tracked the subscriber and traffic surge. Jio Platforms posted quarterly revenue of INR 426.5 billion, up 14.9% year-on-year, and net profit of INR 73.8 billion, up 12.8%. Jio’s fixed wireless access service, Jio AirFiber, more than tripled year-on-year to 9.5 million subscribers. Bottom line: Jio’s 5G is now at meaningful scale with rising ARPU, heavier usage, and fast-growing FWA—setting up a monetization phase led by targeted pricing actions, application partnerships, and enterprise services as 5G-Advanced capabilities arrive.

T-Mobile Cyber Defense Center: 5G Security

T-Mobile Cyber Defense Center: 5G Security
T-Mobile has launched a purpose-built Cyber Defense Center alongside a new Executive Briefing Center, signaling a maturing, integrated approach to cyber resilience across its network and enterprise business. T-Mobile unveiled a centralized Cyber Defense Center at its Bellevue, Washington headquarters to detect, disrupt, and respond to threats in real time, complemented by an Executive Briefing Center that showcases industry use cases and a tie-in to the company’s always-on Business Operations Center for continuity during crises. T-Mobile’s Business Operations Center remains the operational backbone for network health, customer experience continuity, and coordinated disaster response, integrating data-driven dashboards that support rapid decisioning during natural disasters, outages, and high-impact events.

Boldyn and Apeiroon fast-track portable private 5G modules

Boldyn and Apeiroon fast-track portable private 5G modules
Defense, public safety, transport, and critical infrastructure need deterministic connectivity that moves with the mission. Traditional rollouts struggle with time-to-service, power, and backhaul constraints. Portable, “all-in-one” 5G modules help bridge that gap by putting the radio, core, and management closer to the edge, enabling local breakout, resilience, and consistent QoS. With 3GPP Release 16/17 features maturing and SA-first private networks becoming standard, demand is shifting from pilots to field-ready systems that can be mounted in vehicles, worn as backpacks, or staged in temporary zones.

Telecom Equipment Market Rebounds +4% Global

Telecom Equipment Market Rebounds +4% Global
After two years of decline, telecom equipment spending is edging back into positive territory with early signs of a broad-based rebound. Dell’Oro Group’s preliminary data indicates worldwide telecom equipment revenues across six tracked sectors rose 4% year over year in the first half of 2025, with markets outside China up a stronger 8%. The rebound was not limited to a single pocket of spend, but three areas led the gains: mobile core networks, optical transport, and service provider routers and switches. By contrast, RAN remains comparatively muted in many markets as 5G macro buildouts mature.

India Mobile Congress 2025: Telecom GDP to 20% by 2037

India Mobile Congress 2025: Telecom GDP to 20% by 2037
India Mobile Congress 2025 in New Delhi framed a clear ambition: scale domestic innovation, shape 6G, and turn telecom into a larger engine of GDP growth. Leaders underscored a whole-of-government approach, with multiple ministries backing IMC and the Department of Telecommunications and the Cellular Operators Association of India co-hosting. India’s telecom and digital sector is estimated to contribute roughly 12–14% to GDP today. Leaders at IMC projected this could reach about 20% by the mid-2030s if India scales advanced connectivity, software-led services, and domestic manufacturing. India’s 6G push was tied to a potential GDP uplift exceeding a trillion dollars by 2035.

Telia and SJ Partner on 5G, IoT and Rail Resilience

Telia and SJ Partner on 5G, IoT and Rail Resilience
Sweden’s largest passenger rail operator SJ is consolidating its communications estate with Telia to accelerate 5G, IoT, and crisis-readiness across trains, stations, depots, and corporate operations. The partnership positions Telia as SJ’s primary provider for nationwide mobile and fixed communications, combining public 5G/LTE coverage with managed services that support day‑to‑day rail operations and passenger experience. For passengers, more consistent Wi‑Fi backhaul and seamless digital services are the immediate wins; for operations, the prize is reliability and faster recovery when incidents occur. European operators are scaling beyond discrete connectivity pilots toward platforms that unify onboard systems, station sensors, and back‑office analytics.

AT&T 5G lights up NYC’s Joralemon Street Tunnel with Boldyn’s neutral-host network

AT&T 5G lights up NYC’s Joralemon Street Tunnel
AT&T has gone live on Boldyn Networks’ neutral-host infrastructure in New York’s Joralemon Street tunnel, with G line tunnel segments next in the rollout. AT&T customers can now access 5G mobile service through the 1.1-mile (1.8 km) Joralemon Street tunnel, the oldest underwater subway tunnel in New York City, which links the 4/5 lines between Borough Hall in Brooklyn and Bowling Green in Manhattan. Subway connectivity has shifted from convenience to critical infrastructure for safety, accessibility, and productivity. AT&T’s first-mover status sets a competitive benchmark; other national carriers (Verizon and T‑Mobile) are expected to follow as on-boarding progresses across the system.

OpenAI acqui-hires Roi for personalized consumer AI

OpenAI acqui-hires Roi for personalized consumer AI
OpenAI has acquired Roi, a New York–based personal finance startup founded in 2022 that built an AI companion to aggregate and advise on a user’s full financial footprint across stocks, crypto, DeFi, real estate, and NFTs. The move extends a year of acqui-hires at OpenAI, following Context.ai, Crossing Minds, and Alex. Personalization is becoming the moat for AI consumer products. Models are converging in capability, so durable advantage shifts to data, context, and engagement design. OpenAI’s Roi acqui-hire is less about a finance app and more about owning the personalization layer across consumer AI.

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