RCR Wireless News

AT&T has flipped the switch on nationwide 5G Standalone, a milestone years in the making and a crucial step toward cloud-native networking.

A little more about Volkswagen’s €1 billion strategy to realise “no process without AI” across its global operations – as reported in these pages a couple of weeks back.

As infrastructure providers like Boldyn extend 5G deeper into the physical fabric of cities and industries, and operators like Deutsche Telekom reinforce the national mobile foundations beneath them, the next layer of digital transformation is taking shape inside the data centers that will extend the 5G era.

Some Friday fare for you – from reflections on a webinar last week about the combination of private 5G and generative AI, those twin hype bombs, in Industry 4.0.

This edition’s lineup highlights how telecom and tech giants are aligning global infrastructure strategies with AI-native ambitions.

Telecom saw courtroom drama reach a new milestone this week, with Qualcomm securing what it called a “full and final” legal victory over Arm.

AT&T, fresh from acquiring 50 megahertz of low- and mid-band spectrum, is doubling down on its spectrum strategy. RCR caught up with Network CTO Yigal Elbaz to hear how the operator plans to wield its expanded holdings to sharpen its competitive edge.

The topline messaging from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit was clear, according to Sean Kinney: AI everywhere. That means high-performance, power-efficient silicon across smartphones, PCs, vehicles, wearables, and XR — all feeding an “ecosystem of you.”

At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the company introduced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for smartphones alongside the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme for PCs.

Tech Mahindra is betting big on private 5G. The company told RCR that industrial digitalization can’t happen without it — whether in global enterprise deployments or at home in India, where spectrum hurdles remain a sticking point.