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Telefonica’s environmental credentials questioned Telefonica has claimed that its services helped avoid 69.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2023, across Spain, Germany, and Brazil. Unfortunately, the lack of explanation behind the calculations makes for a frustrating read, and a comical gaff in the announcement itself does not help the case. The claim is based on Telefonica’s Connected Living Report 2023. Further work has led Telefonica to the 69.2 million tons figure, extrapolating from the central messaging about the environmental benefits of digitalization – enabled by networks like Telefonica’s. Click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/ewTm--23 #networks #telecoms #carbonemissions 

📖 READ it here: https://lnkd.in/eNvh3vUj 🎧 LISTEN to it here: https://lnkd.in/eX-rui-u Qualcomm articulated its view of how the smartphone will become even more indispensable over the next few years at its annual Snapdragon summit last week in Hawaii. There was the almost compulsory reference to more AI inside its latest Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC unveiled at the event. But despite this, the company was keen to paint this as just a small part of a bigger picture where the smartphone dislodges tablets and laptop computers to become the universal hub of the personal enterprise. #qualcomm #smartphone #snapdragon Wireless Watch, Alex Davies, Elly Whittaker, Philip Hunter https://lnkd.in/eNvh3vUj

Singtel, Ericsson launch NaaS but may not win over all MNOs Singtel and Ericsson have teamed up to provide a Network-as-a-Service product that enterprise customers will be able to use for ordering and provisioning 5G services, such as network slices. The pair also plan to sell the product to other operators, to use in their own networks, although this element of the service will be highly complex for operators with legacy networks to adopt. This deal combines Ericsson’s Service Orchestration and Assurance (SO+A) platform with Singtel’s Paragon platform via APIs. #5G #networks #NaaS

Check out excerpts from a recent ReTHINK Wireless Watch article,  “We are excited about this live demonstration of Charmed Aether SD-Core which combines Aether SD-Core, a scalable open source cloud native mobile core for Private 5G deployments with Canonical’s powerful orchestration engine,” said Larry Peterson, a member of the Aether board and the chair of the Technical Steering Team. “Charmed Aether SD-Core simplifies the operation of a Private 5G, enabling enterprises to efficiently host their own edge applications.” View excerpts here | https://shorturl.at/VFX0f Rethink Technology Research #5G #AetherProject #Private5G

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Another two-minute take, from Wireless Watch Watch Watch: Arm is reportedly gearing up to cancel Qualcomm ’s ARM developer license, as the dispute between the two escalates, and has now allegedly served Qualcomm with a 60-day notice of cancellation. The news stems from Bloomberg, and so should be taken with a pinch of salt, but the move would damage Qualcomm’s development roadmaps significantly. The roots of this trace back to Qualcomm’s 2021 $1.4 billion acquisition of NUVIA Inc, a startup founded by former Apple developers, which developed server-class ARM-based chips. Since then, Nuvia has helped Qualcomm move away from ARM CPU cores, developing its own designs, as Qualcomm typically only lightly changed the ARM cores used in its SoCs. Qualcomm’s latest design, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, houses the new Oryon CPU cores – the ‘internally designed’ substantively non-ARM replacement for the Kyro family that was essentially repackaged ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-X cores. Arm (the company) demanded that Qualcomm and Nuvia destroy any designs that Nuvia had made prior to the acquisition. This would force Qualcomm to use ARM (the design) CPU cores in the new SoC – until a sufficiently ‘new’ design could be developed, which would not infringe on Arm’s design. There's a lot more in the article, and an enormous amount of context in our 20-year archive, so check out Wireless Watch on www.rethinkresearch.biz #mobile #patents #legal #semiconductor #processors #cellular

A new ecosystem for data centers in Europe With seemingly insatiable demand, traditional data center hotspots in Europe are becoming saturated, stimulating the emergence of alternative data center hubs in places such as Barcelona, Rome, Warsaw, and Helsinki. A group of panelists came together at the Capacity Europe conference in London last week to discuss the drivers and restrictors of growth on the continent. One of the main hurdles shared by many of the panelists was the approach to regulating AI in Europe, and the stifling impact this was having on the tech sector. “I think it’s a tragedy,” said Tom Glover, EMEA Head of Data Centre Transactions at JLL. “The EU is trying to regulate too heavily, and we won’t be able to compete with the US and China.” Click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/d6BtrJE5 #datacenters #data #AI 

KDDI picks Samsung’s Open RAN, plots joint 5G buildout with SoftBank Open RAN is like a jigsaw puzzle and sometimes the pieces do not fit. That may be true for KDDI, given its appointment of Samsung Electronics as its main supplier of 4G and 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) systems for its Open RAN deployment in Japan. This comes while the operator is still plotting collaboration with SoftBank, one of Japan’s other four principal mobile operators, to build a shared O-RAN 5G infrastructure across the country, starting in 2026. The two operators also plan to start sharing their existing infrastructure. #5G #openRAN #vRAN 

Wireless Watch's Elly Whittaker attended Ericsson's OSS/BSS conference in Paris, last week. Get all the news from the event in this week's edition, on Wednesday. You can discover more here: https://lnkd.in/ed6dzr5f #qualcomm #ericsson #Arm Alex Davies Philip Hunter

Mixed results for US disaster mitigation in hurricane wake Now that the dust has settled and the flooding has receded, US telcos are taking stock of how well their emergency planning stood up to the onslaughts of hurricanes Helene and Milton, which struck in quick succession. Milton made landfall exactly two weeks after Helene, and was not quite as devastating and far less deadly in its impact, partly because it extended over a smaller area, and also weakened quickly. Helene resulted in greater loss of mobile service and longer time to restore, in general. Around 30% of cell sites were down on average across the six affected states, but it was as high as 70% in North Carolina on September 28th at the peak, coming down to 40% four days later there on October 2nd. #telcos #cellular