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Nvidia is working with SoftBank to reinvent telecom networks to make them capable of supporting AI-RAN, enabling them to run AI and 5G workloads at the same time. -
To challenge Google's search dominance, telecom giants like Telefónica, SoftBank, and Deutsche Telekom threw their weight behind Perplexity, the conversational AI search startup. Their bet, however, appears under threat — as OpenAI has entered the arena.
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Ericsson is teaming up with SoftBank to develop AI radio access network (RAN) solutions to boost network efficiency and performance.
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Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has reportedly agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI while Apple has decided to drop out of backing the AI startup.
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SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, e& Group, Singtel and SoftBank had held the inaugural meeting of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) and announced their plans to establish a joint venture.
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The era of faster, more powerful computers and data centres has come a step closer with the injection of US$20 million into a start-up company that has developed an operating system for quantum computers.
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Telkom Kenya is set to lose its balloon-powered 4G network, only months after it launched the service in the presence of the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Satellite company OneWeb will be a completely wholesale operation from its commercial launch in October, the executive chairman has told Capacity.
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The executive chairman of satellite operator OneWeb says the company will be running global broadband services in the first half of 2022.
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SoftBank Corp (SoftBank) has selected Nokia’s cloud-native, 5G Core software to enable the launch of SoftBank’s standalone 5G services.
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Swedish cloud computing services provider Sinch has a new shareholder after SoftBank took a 10.1% stake in the company.
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Airtel founder Sunil Mittal will be executive chairman of the revived satellite company OneWeb, which has emerged from US bankruptcy protection.
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An uncrewed aircraft carrying an advanced antenna can replace 200 conventional mobile base stations, or even up to 700 in some cases.
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Telecoms and healthcare were the only two sectors to have increased in value this year compared with 2019, according to a new survey.
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SoftBank’s HAPSMobile has successfully transmitted 4G mobile signals – including a video call – from an uncrewed solar-powered aircraft 19km above New Mexico.
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US open RAN specialist Mavenir has bought UK small-cell company ip.access in a move that will further consolidate a rapidly growing sector of the mobile equipment industry.
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A chip development start-up founded by former Google and Apple executives has raised US$240 million in its series B funding round, led by Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital.
