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Boingo scales private 5G with Globalstar XCOM RAN

Boingo scales private 5G with Globalstar XCOM RAN
Boingo Wireless is integrating Globalstar’s XCOM RAN to accelerate private 5G across airports, stadiums, hospitals, convention centers, transit hubs, and military bases. Globalstar said Boingo will add XCOM RAN, a software-defined private 5G platform built around the Supercell architecture, to its private network portfolio. A highlighted approach is overlaying XCOM RAN on existing distributed antenna system (DAS) infrastructure to preserve DAS coverage advantages while boosting capacity and performance. Enterprises are moving beyond pilot projects to operational private 5G in high-traffic, RF-challenged environments. This aligns with rising demand for low-latency, secure connectivity for IoT, video, automation, and mission-critical operations.

ABB Automation Extended: DCS Modernization Without Downtime

ABB Automation Extended: DCS Modernization Without Downtime
ABB has unveiled Automation Extended, an evolution of its distributed control systems designed to let plants add digital capabilities without disrupting mission-critical operations. The program extends ABB’s established DCS portfolio—Ability System 800xA, Symphony Plus, and Freelance—by introducing a framework to layer analytics, AI, and IoT capabilities on top of existing control assets. The core promise is modernization without downtime: operators can keep trusted control systems running while progressively adopting new functionality. Security and interoperability are central themes, with ABB positioning an open, modular ecosystem that scales across industrial domains and preserves prior investments.

5G HAPS for Maritime Surveillance: Airspan & Space Compass

5G HAPS for Maritime Surveillance: Airspan & Space Compass
Airspan plans to supply a 5G Air-to-Ground (ATG) system for Space Compass’s High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) program, using an aircraft operating around 16–18 km to act as a stratospheric node for maritime monitoring. The end-to-end solution—airborne radios and antennas, onboard 5G processing, and a complete ground-based 5G RAN, core, and management stack—targets secure command-and-control plus real-time sensor data exchange between the HAPS and ground stations up to roughly 300 km away. After lab and pre-flight work, the team intends to validate the system on a light aircraft in 2026, followed by stratospheric trials in 2027.

AT&T fiber‑5G convergence strategy realigns telecom

AT&T fiber‑5G convergence strategy realigns telecom
The operators that control both dense fiber and performant 5G, and that package them coherently, will set the pace for the next telecom cycle. AT&T’s targets—more fiber passings, higher bundle attach, and measured wireless growth—put it squarely in the camp that sees integrated networks as the winning model. If the company executes on build cadence and cross-sell while keeping experience clean, expect continued share gains in fiber markets and a tougher environment for single-asset competitors. For buyers, the practical takeaway is to lean into converged sourcing now to lock in economics and resiliency as these footprints expand.

AI-Driven Traffic Reshapes 5G Networks

AI-Driven Traffic Reshapes 5G Networks
The next wave of digital transformation will be defined by AI workloads riding on cloud and edge infrastructure over 5G networks, and that shift will change how networks are built, monetized, and secured. Generative and agentic AI move more compute into the network, creating persistent, uplink-heavy, low-latency flows rather than the mostly downlink, best-effort traffic of the smartphone era. Video from cameras, glasses, and sensors feeds models at the edge and in the cloud; results return in milliseconds to people and machines. That means tighter latency budgets, deterministic jitter control, and stronger guarantees for both throughput and reliability.

Verizon 5G capex cuts as Q4 subscribers surge

Verizon One: What a $70 Converged Bundle Tells Us About Where Consumer Connectivity Is Heading
Verizon exits 2025 with standout subscriber growth and a leaner 2026 investment plan that shifts dollars from network build to integration, efficiency and customer retention. Verizon posted more than 1 million net additions in the fourth quarter, including 616,000 postpaid phone net adds—the best showing since 2019—and 372,000 broadband net adds driven by 319,000 fixed wireless access (FWA) additions and the strongest Fios Internet quarter since 2020. After years of 5G coverage build, Verizon is pivoting to densification, fiber integration and operating efficiency, allowing capex to step down without undermining network competitiveness. Capital will concentrate on fiber-led convergence, FWA capacity, and experience-centric technologies that reduce churn and support revenue quality.

Blue Origin TeraWave LEO/MEO Network for Enterprises

Blue Origin TeraWave LEO/MEO Network for Enterprises
TeraWave combines 5,280 low Earth orbit satellites with 128 medium Earth orbit satellites—5,408 spacecraft in total—tied together via optical inter-satellite links. The design targets global coverage with two distinct performance tiers: up to 144 Gbps symmetrical RF links per enterprise customer using Q/V-band in LEO, and optical links in MEO delivering up to 6 Tbps for high-throughput trunking between hubs. Blue Origin positions the service for point-to-point private links and enterprise-grade internet access, with an initial target of up to 100,000 customers. The company intends to launch on its own New Glenn vehicles and leverage reusable engines to scale deployment.

AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 on New Glenn: Direct-to-Device Cellular Broadband

AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 on New Glenn: Direct-to-Device Cellular Broadband
BlueBird 7 is slated to lift off in late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the New Glenn-3 mission. It is AST SpaceMobile’s first payload on New Glenn and the second satellite in its next-generation “Block 2” campaign, following BlueBird 6. BlueBird 7 mirrors BlueBird 6 and carries a deployable array of about 2,400 square feet—the company positions it as the largest commercial communications aperture in low Earth orbit. The design, backed by thousands of patent and patent-pending claims, is engineered to deliver peak downlink rates up to 120 Mbps directly to standard, unmodified devices for voice, data, and video.

6G XR: Holographic Calling on Live 5G SA

6G XR: Holographic Calling on Live 5G SA
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.

LG SHOWCASES FUTURE OF MOBILITY WITH AI-POWERED IN-VEHICLE SOLUTIONS AT CES 2026

LG SHOWCASES FUTURE OF MOBILITY WITH AI-POWERED IN-VEHICLE SOLUTIONS AT CES 2026
LG Electronics has won a CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award for its AI-powered in-vehicle experience, redefining how drivers and passengers interact with mobility through Affectionate Intelligence. The solution combines immersive displays, in-cabin sensing, and on-device AI to transform the vehicle cabin into a more intuitive, human-centered space.

Rogers Satellite-to-Mobile: NTN Connectivity for Consumers and IoT

Rogers Satellite-to-Mobile: NTN Connectivity for Consumers and IoT
Rogers Communications has moved from beta to a commercial footprint for satellite-to-mobile in Canada, extending basic connectivity and select apps to consumer smartphones while adding an industrial IoT tier for remote operations. The new Rogers Satellite service enables a curated set of popular apps to work beyond terrestrial coverage, including WhatsApp calling, Google Maps, AccuWeather, X, and CalTopo on most modern smartphones. In parallel, Rogers introduced satellite-to-mobile for IoT businesses, targeting asset tracking along highways and rail, as well as sensor telemetry in forestry, mining, and other resource sectors where terrestrial cellular is sparse.

3GPP Issue 11: Release 18–19 Highlights and Early 6G

3GPP Issue 11: Release 18–19 Highlights and Early 6G
The latest 3GPP cycle consolidates 5G-Advanced (Release 18), sets the agenda for Release 19, and frames early 6G studies, with direct implications for operator investment, enterprise use cases, and vendor roadmaps. Release 18, the first phase of 5G-Advanced, is moving from standards completion into implementation, bringing carrier-grade enhancements in spectral efficiency, energy savings, and mobility performance. Release 19 now builds on these foundations, prioritizing further RAN efficiency, XR and video delivery at scale, richer analytics/exposure in the core (NWDAF, NEF/CAPIF), and enterprise-grade reliability across private and public networks.
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