Light Reading Weekly #82
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#TheDivide: Steve Smith, chief revenue officer for LiveOak Fiber, on the company's deployment milestones in Florida and Georgia, lessons learned along the way and how LiveOak is getting ready for BEAD.
SoftBank to build 150MW AI data center at Sharp's Sakai plant. The Japanese telco operator plans to start construction of the AI data center around the autumn of 2024, with full-scale operations set for 2025.
The FCC is considering expanding its outage reporting rules. That doesn't sit well with most telecom network operators and their trade associations, but they do want FirstNet to be subject to the existing rules.
Future AI capabilities on smartphones could give operators new routes to monetization and revenue sharing, but they present a 'huge challenge for actually running this infrastructure,' says Canalys Analyst Runar Bjorhovde.
While the amount of data generated is growing constantly, companies admit up to 60% of their data goes unused. This underscores the need for businesses to better understand their needs and improve data handling practices.
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