As a follow-up to our coverage of T-Mobile US’s expanding enterprise strategy with the launch of Edge Control and T-Platform, RCR Wireless News spoke with Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer of T-Mobile Business. Katibeh described 5G-Advanced and network slicing as the “secret sauce” powering the company’s new offerings — hybrid private 5G services designed to route local traffic securely and efficiently. By combining the scale of T-Mobile’s public 5G network with the control of private infrastructure, Edge Control delivers low-latency performance for AI, healthcare, and logistics use cases. The operator’s open, vendor-agnostic approach further positions it as one of the earliest U.S. players to bring 5G-Advanced capabilities into commercial use.

But as the connected enterprise becomes more cloud-dependent, recent AWS and Vodafone outages have exposed the fragile underpinnings of Industry 4.0. While most attention centered on consumer disruption, these incidents underscored how manufacturing and industrial networks can fail without proper redundancy between cloud and carrier infrastructure. The lesson: Resilience needs to be engineered as deeply as speed or intelligence.

Meanwhile, AT&T reported steady third-quarter earnings, driven by fiber and mobility gains. Free cash flow rose to $4.9 billion as the operator looks ahead to nationwide expansion through its planned Lumen fiber acquisition and EchoStar spectrum deal, expected to close in 2026.