Talk of the day: data sovereignty in Europe, and beyond, and the role of telcos in it; plus the impact of digital regulation on digital revolution, and how it might …

Can we talk about private 5G – just for a moment? Because T-Mobile, the knockabout consumer brand in US telecoms, has just knocked it out of the park with this …

T-Mobile has deployed fully private 5G networks across all 29 (US) MLB ballparks, using Ericsson hardware and a local tranche of mid-band n41 spectrum – for automated ball/strike calls, fan …

People believe what they want to believe – as Julius Caesar wrote in his account of the Gallic Wars. It’s human nature, amped-up more than two millennia later on social …

I probably need to change the record here – that fiber matters more right now. I mean, hardly a revelevation, right? But there’s sympathy for the old telco devils in …

This generative/agentic AI combo at O2 Telefónica in Germany sounds a lot like an optimized version of Microsoft’s telco‑focused NOA framework – as shown to RCR at MWC a couple …

It’s Friday, after a long week, and I should resist the urge to put pop references into this unwieldy tale; let’s try and hold it together a while longer.

Do we have something, here, more coordinated than just a burst of AI enthusiasm from AT&T – and all the rest of the telco pack, over the last several months?

What do we have today? Well, some (extended) discussion about yesterday’s newsletter item, about a new era of AI token economics, courtesy of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at GTC. “This …

Nvidia-obsessives will pore over 20-odd releases from GTC, and there is lots to chew over; some of it is interesting: the AI-RAN stuff with T-Mobile and Nokia; the idea of …