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Omdia’s 2025 Mobile Core Network Leaders: Huawei #1 in market share; Nokia #1 for portfolio competitiveness
Highlights of Omdia’s “Market Landscape: Core Vendors” Report: 1. Market Share: Five vendors control the 4G and 5G core market with a combined market share of 86.1% in 2025, down from 87.4% in 2024. The top three players collectively captured 70.9% of total revenue. With such a concentration of market power, each vendor is increasingly… Read more
Applying Zero Trust at the Wireless Edge: Securing Mixed WPA2 and WPA3 IoT Fleets
By Iftikhar Javed khan with Ajay Lotan Thakur Abstract Zero-trust architecture is a security model that eliminates implicit trust based on network location and instead requires every access request to be continuously authenticated, authorized, and validated before it is granted (NIST SP 800-207), Yet while zero-trust architecture is intentionally network-agnostic, practitioners still need concrete design… Read more
5G in Europe: Broad coverage but 5G SA cloud native core network lags other major markets (Table)
Europe’s 5G market status appears increasingly uneven. The region has achieved broad 5G population coverage, but its transition to the 5G Standalone (SA) core network—and the cloud-native 5G Core required to realize 5G features and capabilities—remains materially behind several major markets. A recent workshop report from the EU-backed European 5G Observatory highlights stakeholder concern that… Read more
Impact of optical component shortages & bottlenecks explained + Hyperscaler’s CAPEX
LightCounting’s August 2026 market and component report highlights how severe physical supply shortages for high-speed optical components are reshaping data-center architectures and forcing cloud builders to expand their vendor pools from the traditional 2-3 suppliers up to 5-7 specialized hardware manufacturers. Qualifying and managing all of them is a new challenge. Applied Optoelectronics, Macom, and MaxLinear have… Read more
Huge Risks for the proposed $500B AI Investments from Giant Wall Street firms
Disclaimer: Perplexity.ai was used for research and analysis in this article. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Executive Summary: This past Monday, six giant Wall Street asset managers, private-equity firms and banks announced an effort to raise $500 billion to keep fueling the A.I. boom by financing more data centers, power plants and chips. The proposed platform would direct capital… Read more
Telefónica incorporates AI for businesses voice communications vs. 3GPP/ITU specifications
Executive Summary: Telefónica España made an announcement this week which indicates that Voice could be an important AI monetization opportunity for telcos. The Spain based telecom group is positioning its business voice portfolio around a key differentiator: the ability to embed AI-enabled capabilities directly into conventional fixed and mobile telephony, without requiring enterprises to migrate… Read more
Starlink Mobile: NTN–Terrestrial Convergence, Network Capacity, and the Limits of Disruption
Executive Summary: Elon Musk’s strategic objective for Starlink extends beyond satellite broadband connectivity for remote, maritime, aviation, and enterprise users. SpaceX is positioning Starlink for a broader role in mobile communications through an integrated non-terrestrial network (NTN) and terrestrial-network architecture. That strategy could combine direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity, satellite backhaul, selected terrestrial access infrastructure, and… Read more
Eutelsat hails EC’s IRIS-2 project to take on U.S. NTN providers
Executive Summary: The European Commission (EC) has announced the next steps for the IRIS2 [1.] project after reaching an implementation agreement with the prime contractors, one of which is Eutelsat. The EC agreed terms with the SpaceRISE consortium – comprising Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES – for deploying the satellite system, which includes adding 66 more… Read more
Optus and Nokia’s pre-“6G” Trial in Australia: Upper 6 GHz May Be Widely Deployable
Executive Summary: Australia’s Optus and Nokia have delivered one of the more credible pre 6G demonstrations yet: a live-field trial in Sydney that paired multi-gigabit speed with good coverage. The most notable result was the 3.5 Gbps peak download rate and the indication that upper 6 GHz could support a macrocell footprint comparable to today’s… Read more
Ookla: U.S. dominates global WiFi 7 while adoption grew 4X to 7.2% by Q1-2026
Introduction: According to Ookla’s new WiFi report, cablecos Spectrum (Charter) is the largest Wi-Fi 7 provider in the world! WiFi 7 is actually IEEE 802.11be, also known as Extremely High Throughput (EHT). Following Ookla’s recent report on The Global State of Wi-Fi , this article focuses on the U.S. and updates last year’s Wi-Fi 7 Speeds Up in… Read more