Telecoms.com Weekly #40

The Telecoms.com Podcast: Rakuten, BT and US vs China

The lads manage to squeeze in a pod between their various summer holidays, principally to enable Scott to document his tan. They start with a look at the state of Japanese internet and telecoms giant Rakuten, which recently lost one of its most important execs. BT, meanwhile, has wasted little time in appointing a new CEO, so they move on to discuss that, before concluding with a look at America’s increasingly self-harming attempts to stop China developing technology.

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5G and eSIM drive increased enterprise IoT growth

New research reveals that enterprises around the world are broadly optimistic about the prospects presented by IoT and are harnessing the latest technologies to exploit them.

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A guide to Open RAN

Telecoms.com gathered together a panel of industry experts to define and analyse the future trajectory of Open RAN, the approach to building networks from an à la carte menu of equipment manufacturers.

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Adtran and Nokia make more kit in America for BEAD

Adtran and Nokia are both shouting about their plans to make more fibre-optic equipment in the US as they seek to capitalise on the country’s BEAD programme.

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UK ad watchdog rules 6G does not exist

The Advertising Standards Authority has come down hard on UK ISP 6G Internet for misleading the UK public over the existence of 6G mobile technology.

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Telcos tap up OpenAI veterans for their own AI tech

The recently-launched Global Telco AI Alliance has brought in some heavy hitters to build its very own large language model (LLM).

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