AT&T reported a 1.6% increase in third-quarter revenue to $30.7 billion, driven by its convergence strategy which combines wireless and fiber services. This strategy attracted profitable customers, as evidenced by 405,000 postpaid phone net additions and 550,000 new subscribers for AT&T’s advanced broadband services, including Fiber and Internet Air. The growth in these areas offset a decline... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Dario Talmesio, research director, service provider, strategy and regulation at market research firm Omdia (owned by Informa) sees positive signs for network operators. “After many years of plumbing, now telecom operators are starting to see some of the benefits of their network and beyond network strategies. Furthermore, the investor community is now appreciating telecom investments,... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
The ITU-R WP 5D schedule described below applies to the first invitation for IMT 2030 candidate RITs [1] or SRITs [2] [1] RIT =Radio Interface Technology [2] SRITs =Set of RITs. That terminology was used for IMT 2020 and the IMT 2150 recommendation Submission of proposals may begin at 54th meeting of Working Party (WP) 5D,... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
IBM and Groq [1.] today announced a strategic market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq’s inference technology — GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate and enhance RedHat open source vLLM... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Private network security startup OneLayer has scored $28 million in series A funding led by Maor Investments with participation from McRock Capital, Chevron Technology Ventures and existing investors Viola Ventures, Grove Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies. The Series A round brings total funding to more than $43 million. The Boston, MA headquartered firm says they... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
The Financial Times reports that ten loss making artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups have gained close to $1 trillion in private market valuation in the past 12 months, fuelling fears about a bubble in private markets that is much greater than the dot com bubble at the end of the 20th century. OpenAI leads the pack with a $500 billion valuation, but Anthropic and xAI have also seen their values march higher amid a mad scramble to buy into emerging AI companies. Sm...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Ericsson’s 3rd quarter 2025 results released today showed a 9% drop in revenues, to 56.2 billion Swedish kronor (US$5.9 billion), compared with the same period last year. Ericsson’s gross margin rose 2% to 47.6%. U.S. sales fell by as much as 17% year-over-year for the 3rd quarter, to about SEK22.5 billion ($2.4 billion), after an... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
At the OCP Global Summit 2025 in San Jose, CA, Meta detailed its strategy for scaling AI infrastructure to regional data center deployments, emphasizing open, collaborative, and highly scalable designs to support growing AI workloads. The October 14th keynote presentation by Meta’s VP of Data Center Infrastructure, Dan Rabinovitsj, discussed strategies for deploying and operating... Read more →| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
InterDigital, Inc, a mobile, video and AI technology research and development company, was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of War (DoW) to lead research and conduct demonstrations of advanced spectrum coexistence for civil and military applications. Spectrum sharing optimizes the use of the airwaves, or wireless communications channels, by enabling multiple categories of users to safely share the same frequency bands.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
In a blog published today (October 8th), Yigal Elbaz, AT&T’s senior VP and network CTO, AT&T announced its 5G Standalone (SA) network is now deployed nationwide, marking an important milestone many years in the making. Elbaz described the 5G SA nationwide deployment as “another bold leap” in wireless connectivity and said the operator is moving customers onto the network “in select areas every day.”| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced AI chips and data centers, not just to keep pace with a surge in the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but to make sure they’re ready to handle a more fundamental and disruptive shift of economic activity from humans to machines. The final bill may run into the trillions. The financing is coming from venture capital, debt and, lately, some more unconventional arrangements that have raised concerns among to...| techblog.comsoc.org
Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced AI chips and data centers, not just to keep pace with a surge in the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but to make sure they’re ready to handle a more fundamental and disruptive shift of economic activity from humans to machines. The final bill may run into the trillions. The financing is coming from venture capital, debt and, lately, some more unconventional arrangements that have raised concerns among to...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
IEEE Techblog has called attention to the many challenges and risks inherent in the current mega-spending boom for AI infrastructure (building data centers, obtaining power/electricity, cooling, maintenance, fiber optic networking, etc) . In particular, these two recent blog posts:| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Peak Data Rate [1.] is one of the most visible attributes of IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) cellular networks, e.g. 3G, 4G and 5G. As a result, it gets significant attention from analysts and reporters that create high expectations for IMT end users which may never be realized in commercially deployed IMT networks.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
T-Mobile US is having a banner year. The “uncarrier” has again increased its annual earnings outlook, supported by the acquisition of fiber network operator Metronet and strong mobile customer growth in Q2. After gaining another 1.73 million postpaid customers in the quarter, T-Mobile now expects total postpaid net additions this year of 6.1-6.4 million, up from its previous guidance of 5.5-6.0 million. Postpaid customer growth strengthened compared to the first quarter and included 83...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
According to Dell’Oro Group, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) has surged in recent years to support both residential and enterprise connectivity due to its ease of deployment along with the more widespread availability of 4G LTE and 5G Sub-6GHz networks. Preliminary findings suggest total FWA revenues, including RAN equipment, residential CPE, and enterprise router and gateway revenue remain on track to advance 7% in 2024, driven largely by residential subscriber growth in North America and In...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Ericsson’s November 2024 Mobility Report predicts that global 5G standalone (SA) connections will top 3.6 billion by 2030. That compares to 890 million at the end of 2023. Over that same period of time, 5G SA as a proportion of global mobile subscriptions is expected to increase from 10.5% to 38.4%, while average monthly smartphone data consumption will grow to 40 GB from 17.2 GB. By the end of the decade, 80% of total mobile data traffic will be carried by 5G networks.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Austin, TX based Aviat Networks has announced an agreement to provide Africell with a 5G-ready disaggregated transmission network in several African countries. The new network will be designed, installed and maintained by Aviat. It will include Aviat’s WTM 4000 and WTM 4800 multi-band point-to-point radios and CTR microwave switches, and TIP (Telecom Infra Project) compliant disaggregated cell site gateways (DCSGs). The DCSGs are Edgecore Networks running IP Infusion’s OcNOS® network o...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Aviat Networks, a wireless transport and access company, today announced a partnership with Intracom Telecom, a global technology systems and solutions provider, to deliver Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology using high-capacity 28 and 39 GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) bands, conforming to FCC requirements for mmWave bands intended for 5G use.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Big Tech plans to spend between $364 billion and $400 billion on AI data centers, purchasing specialized AI hardware like GPUs, and supporting cloud computing/storage capacity. The final 2Q 2025 GDP report, released last week, reveals a surge in data center infrastructure spending from $9.5 billion in early 2020 to $40.4 billion in the second quarter of 2025. It’s largely due to an unprecedented investment boom driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The increase highl...| techblog.comsoc.org
Big Tech plans to spend between $364 billion and $400 billion on AI data centers, purchasing specialized AI hardware like GPUs, and supporting cloud computing/storage capacity. The final 2Q 2025 GDP report, released last week, reveals a surge in data center infrastructure spending from $9.5 billion in early 2020 to $40.4 billion in the second quarter of 2025. It’s largely due to an unprecedented investment boom driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The increase highl...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
“Lumen is determined to lead the transformation of our industry to meet the demands of the AI economy,” said Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson. “With ubiquitous reach and a digital-first platform, we are positioned to deliver next-gen connectivity, power enterprise innovation, and secure our own growth. This is how we build the trusted network for AI and deliver exceptional value to our customers and shareholders.”| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Some worry costs will always be too high for profits. In a blog post on his company’s website, Harris Kupperman, a self-described boomer investor and the founder of the hedge fund Praetorian Capital, laid out his bearish case on A.I. infrastructure. Because the building needs upkeep and the chips and other technology will continually evolve, he argued that data centers will depreciate faster than they can generate revenue.| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
According to Gartner, global AI spending will reach close to US$1.5 trillion this year and will top $2 trillion in 2026 as ongoing demand fuel IT infrastructure investment. This significant growth is driven by hyperscalers’ ongoing investments in AI-optimized data centers and hardware, such as GPUs, along with increased enterprise adoption and the integration of AI into consumer devices like smartphones and PCs. | IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite operator Iridium Communications Inc announced a new partnership with Deutsche Telekom to deliver global connectivity to their customers through the Iridium NTN DirectSM service. Deutsche Telekom will gain roaming access to Iridium’s forthcoming 3GPP 5G NTN specification-based service, providing NB-IoT direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity that will keep customers, and their assets, connected from pole to pole. The two companies will be collaborating to inte...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
Big Tech plans to spend between $364 billion and $400 billion on AI data centers, purchasing specialized AI hardware like GPUs, and supporting cloud computing/storage capacity. The final 2Q 2025 GDP report, released last week, reveals a surge in data center infrastructure spending from $9.5 billion in early 2020 to $40.4 billion in the second quarter of 2025. It’s largely due to an unprecedented investment boom driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The increase highl...| techblog.comsoc.org
by Nellie Marteen| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog