AT&T now routes roughly 40% of its internal AI requests through open-weight models, cutting AI coding costs by 56% while absorbing only a 2% decline in output quality, the company said. The telecom gi…
Vodafone and Ericsson embedded AI in a test mobile network to demonstrate instant language translation during voice calls, translating conversations between English, Spanish, Italian, French and Germa…
SK Telecom CEO Jeong Jai-hun met with GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath and ASEAN industry officials at a GSMA-hosted event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday, where discussions centered on A…
Nokia has launched its 'Mobile Core Early Access' program, initially restricted in June but now open to all operators and large businesses, to reduce the effort of setting up testing environments for …
Researchers released TelecomGPT-R1-9B, an open-source telecom reasoning model that ranks first among open-source telecom LLMs on the GSMA open telco leaderboard and achieves a seven-axis mean comparab…
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to overhaul its Device Identification, Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) with an AI-powered 'Digital Intel…
PTML Chief Technology and AI Officer Awais Vohra warned at the GSMA Digital Nation Pakistan Ministerial Roundtable that Pakistan's digital infrastructure is not yet ready for the AI era, urging sustai…
At Advancing AI 2026, AMD, AT&T, and Microsoft announced OTel 2.0, an open-source model trained specifically for telecoms, with AT&T processing more than 1 trillion tokens through managed compute in M…
MWC26 Shanghai, held June 24-26, signaled that telecom operators are building networks around AI tokens and agents, not just bandwidth. GSMA director-general Vivek Badrinath declared a mobile "IQ era"…
China's 5G connections are projected to exceed 1.7 billion by 2030, according to a GSMA report released ahead of MWC Shanghai. The country currently accounts for over 40% of global 5G connections, wit…
Chinese humanoid robots are competing in a penalty kick challenge at MWC Shanghai, testing autonomous perception, balance, and motion planning without human control. The event, timed with the 2026 FIF…
AT&T and GSMA launched the Open Telco AI platform, using Google's open-source Gemma models to create domain-specific telecom AI models that achieved up to 91.74% accuracy in network operations. The in…
At the GSMA M360 Eurasia 2026 event, ZTE presented a localized roadmap aimed at advancing Eurasia's digital future by focusing on "affordable AI." The company's strategy emphasizes building open ecosy…