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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0319 > 5g > italian-tower-5g

Italian carriers plan tower JV to boost 5G expansion

13+ hour, 5+ min ago  (324+ words) Up to 6,000 towers planned " TIM and Fastweb + Vodafone aim to expand tower infrastructure to support 5G coverage and capacity across Italy. JV structure " A 50-50 entity will manage assets, with potential for external investors to optimize financing over time. Italian operators TIM…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0317 > carriers > fiber-japan-research

Fiber growth steadies Japan telecom revenue, research finds

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (374+ words) Fiber growth offsets decline " Fixed broadband rising at 1.3% CAGR balances a 1.8% drop in voice, keeping total market growth at a modest 0.4%. Bundling drives stability " Operators rely on multi-play packages and premium fiber tiers to sustain ARPU and reduce churn in…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0317 > wi-fi-2 > wi-fi-8-qualcomm

From best-effort to “Ultra-High Reliability” — Wi-Fi 8 in the AI era

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (400+ words) From best-effort to "Ultra-High Reliability" " Wi-Fi 8 in the AI era'RCR Wireless News From best-effort to "Ultra-High Reliability" " Wi-Fi 8 in the AI era Wi-Fi 8 will support future networks as traffic shifts from human-initiated applications to machine-driven, agentic AI applications Wi-Fi 8 is…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0317 > reader-forum > creator-led-mvnos-telecom

What creator-led MVNOs tell us about the new telecom growth (Reader Forum)

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (911+ words) Description is currently not available. Creator-led MVNOs highlight a new path for telecom growth, where community, identity and brand loyalty drive adoption more than price or coverage. Telecom tech company Circles says that by leveraging existing audiences and niche segments,…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0316 > ai > microsoft-agents-vodafone

‘Agility is money’, says Microsoft – as agents rewrite Vodafone B2B cycle

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (169+ words) Frontier" telcos like Vodafone, AT&T, and Telef'nica are deploying hundreds of AI agents across their operations, says Microsoft " to automate processes, accelerate sales, and drive a new kind of operational agility. It has a weeks"to-minutes use-case with Vodafone....

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0316 > reader-forum > esim-entitlement-servers-telcos

Why eSIM makes entitlement servers a new growth engine for telcos (Reader Forum)

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (553+ words) The eSIM is rapidly becoming the default across flagship smartphones, smart glasses, smart watches, and other companion devices. This is increasingly raising an important question, says telecom software provider Motive: are operators truly ready to offer and activate the next…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0313 > reader-forum > ai-tech-trends-telecoms-ifs

From agentic AI to energy KPIs – the trends transforming telcos (Reader Forum)

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (472+ words) Many operators are already deploying autonomous assistants that orchestrate multiple agents. These systems act on fraud alerts, coordinate customer care offers, and automate software engineering tasks. Take Telef'nica's Aura, for example, which can handle over 400 million interactions annually across 30+ channels,…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0312 > ai-infrastructure > agents-of-chaos-equinix-ai

Agents of chaos – Equinix proposes metro fix for the new AI sprawl

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (372+ words) As AI workloads splinter across the fragmented cloud-infrastructure landspace, enterprises are scrambling to keep performance, governance, and costs in check. Equinix reckons the answer is in neutral interconnection hubs that simplify last-mile access, orchestrate distributed infrastructure, and bring inference closer…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0312 > test-measurement > hollow-core-fibers-big-test

Hollow core fiber's big test

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (778+ words) One of hottest trends coming out of the optical fiber industry today is hollow core fiber (HCF)." HCF had a viral moment at MWC when it saw repeated mentions in connection with AI. Adding to the excitement, Chinese fiber giant…...

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rcrwireless.com > 20/26/0310 > network-infrastructure > verizon-fiber-metro-private-5g

Networking the AI economy – Verizon on global fiber, metro access, private 5G

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (625+ words) Global, porgrammable, and dense " from the cloud to the edge: Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in backbone fiber, metro access, and private network will link…...