Cisco Adds a Control Plane to Quantum Networks and Puts a Price Tag on the Compiler
Cisco introduced a Quantum Network Controller research prototype that schedules entanglement as a service, with a 99 percent fidelity test over 17.6 km of…
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Ericsson Puts a 5 Mbps Uplink Floor Under AI Applications at RAN Compute
Ericsson's RAN compute team told RCR Wireless News' Intelligent RAN Forum that AI applications need at least 5 Mbps of uplink, measured across more…
Public Safety Senders Want the Dead Zones Covered by Satellite, and the Satellites Are Not in Orbit Yet
Public safety groups pinned their coverage dead zones on a map at the 2026 FirstNet summit, while AT&T approved 220 rural sites and pushed…
Nokia Walked Away From InCoax’s Fiber Extension Deal and InCoax Is Now Going Direct
Nokia told InCoax it would stop investing in their joint MoCA-based offering, and InCoax responded by moving to direct sales, lifting its contractual restrictions…
The FCC’s Router Ban Came With a Two-Year Clock, and Small Cable Operators Needed Both
The FCC granted ACA Connects and NTCA a one-year expedited waiver, good through September 29, 2027, letting members make Class I and Class II…
FiberHome Will Supply the Wet Plant on Indonesia’s 6,870 km Domestic Backbone
Indonesia's SGI Cable System will run 6,870 km across 14 landing points at 25 Tbit/s, with FiberHome as system supplier and Nokia as optical…
Huawei and Qualcomm Settle 5G and AI Patents With a Deal That Makes Qualcomm the Buyer
Huawei and Qualcomm signed a multi-year cross-licence across 5G, compute, AI and networking, together with Qualcomm's purchase of certain Huawei US patents, pending regulatory…
Germany’s Regulator Is Running Out of Ways to Explain Why Huawei Stays
The Bundesnetzagentur has classified all gNodeB functions as critical in a filing with the European Commission, removing the legal argument Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and…
Nokia Put a 2x Spectral Efficiency Number on the Table and Orange Immediately Argued About the Bill
Nokia put a 2x spectral efficiency target on the table at the Intelligent RAN Forum and Orange's Laurent Leboucher immediately turned the conversation to…
Malaysia’s Wholesale 5G Operator Borrowed $1.27 Billion to Make the Government a Minority Shareholder
Digital Nasional Berhad closed a 5.2 billion ringgit syndicated Islamic term financing, one of Malaysia's largest for an unlisted company, as the ministry's 31.18…
China’s Optical Industry Set a 1 Million Port 50G-PON Target for 2030 and Named the Constraint Out Loud
MIIT's five-year ICT plan sets a target of 1 million 50G-PON ports by 2030, built on 136 pilots run last year, while component suppliers…
Three Competing 6G Core Directions Are on the Table and Two of Them Want the Same Thing
3GPP SA2 has three competing 6G core architectures on the table after the Prague meeting, split between a separate AI domain that protects 5G…