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Huawei FY2025: 2.2% YoY revenue increase; strategic pivot to AI and intelligent automotive solutions
Overview: Huawei has released its 2025 audited financial results, reporting total revenue of CNY 880.9bn ($127.6bn) — a 2.2% YoY increase. The report highlights a significant expansion in profitability, with operating profit surging 22.1% to CNY 96.9bn ($14bn). That translated to an operating profit margin of 11%, up 180 bps from the 9.2% recorded in 2024…. Read more
Fiber Broadband Association Middle Mile WG: how to use “Digital Infrastructure Networks” for coordinated fiber backbone investments
The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) today released guidance from its Middle Mile Working Group (WG) which outlines how states can strengthen digital infrastructure through coordinated fiber backbone investment. Fiber is the foundation of AI, powering the high-capacity, low-latency, secure connectivity that links data centers, cloud infrastructure, and the communities that depend on them. To meet rising national demand,… Read more
The Financial Trap of Autonomous Networks: Scaling Agentic AI in the Telecom Core
By Pavan Madduri with Ajay Lotan Thakur The telecom industry wants autonomous, self-healing networks, but nobody is looking at the GPU bill. Running Agentic AI 24/7 “just in case” will bankrupt your IT department and ruin your ESG goals. The only way to survive the autonomous era is ruthless, event-driven orchestration that scales cognitive compute… Read more
Analysis and Impact of Blockbuster FCC ban on foreign made WiFi routers
On March 23rd, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its Covered List to prohibit the sale of foreign made consumer-grade (WiFi) routers to be sold in the U.S. The FCC’s Covered List is a list of communications equipment and services that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the U.S…. Read more
Anthropic Claude Users Reveal AI Hallucinations as their Top Concern
Introduction: Across regions from Germany to Mexico, users of artificial intelligence (AI) are less concerned about being replaced by AI than by its propensity to make major mistakes, according to one of the largest global surveys to date on real-world AI usage and perception. These mistakes, known as “AI Hallucinations,” are essentially made up stories… Read more
Telco investments in mobile core networks surge 83% in 2025-Q4, but what about ROI?
According to new data from market research firm Omdia (owned by Informa), 2025 Q4 investments 5G SA Core networks surged 83% year-over-year. For OEMs, this uptick suggests a pivot away from the stagnant 5G Standalone (SA) momentum of recent years. Omdia identified North America and EMEA as the primary growth engines for the quarter. “The surge… Read more
IMT-2030 (“6G”) Minimum Technology Performance Requirements for Radio Interface Technologies
At its February 2026 meeting in Geneva, ITU-R WP 5D reached agreement on the technical performance requirements for IMT-2030, also known as 6G. Formal approval is expected to follow when the parent ITU-R study group 5 meets in December 2026. At their Feb 2026 meeting, WP 5D WG Technology Aspects/SWG Radio Aspects discussed all the… Read more
Part II: Outcomes from the IEEE–ITU Sustainable Climate Symposium
IEEE–International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium on Achieving a Sustainable Climate – Part II by Marta Koch, IEEE Europe Member & PhD Researcher & Teaching Facilitator, Imperial College London with Alan J Weissberger, IEEE Techblog Content Manager Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article summarizing this ITU-IEEE Symposium. Part I is here. Why… Read more
Part I: Outcomes from the IEEE–ITU Sustainable Climate Symposium
IEEE–International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium: Achieving a Sustainable Climate 2025 Outcomes: Capitalizing on AI for Energy-Efficient and Climate Resilient Telecommunications Networks By Marta Koch, IEEE Europe Member & PhD Researcher & Teaching Facilitator, Imperial College London with Alan J Weissberger, IEEE Techblog Content Manager Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two part article… Read more
AWS to deploy AI inference chips from Cerebras in its data centers; Anapurna Labs/Amazon in-house AI silicon products
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it plans to integrate AI processors from Cerebras Systems [1.] into its data centers, signaling growing confidence in the AI-focused semiconductor startup. Under a new multiyear partnership announced Friday, AWS will deploy Cerebras’s Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) to accelerate inference workloads—the stage of AI operations where models generate responses to user… Read more