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MWC2026: Accenture to acquire Ookla as part of its global AI strategy

The consultancy continues its acquisition spree to speed clients' transformations, with tangible results; Ookla adds slice monitoring to its Speedtest app with Ericsson

Bringing real-time AI assistants into live calls – natively inside the telecom network

Partner content: Tallence launches THOR Voice enabling operators to embed real-time AI assistants directly into live phone calls as a secure, network-native service layer

MWC2026: NGMN offers a cooler look at 6G to counterbalance AI fever

NGNM's white paper is the first of a series that will strive to define 6G and its uses while avoiding grandiose claims about the impact of AI workloads on the network or AI running infra

MWC 2026: NVIDIA storms the show with alliances, 6G as grid for physical AI

Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank and T-Mobile sign up to build 6G infra on open, secure AI-native platforms

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NTT DATA, Ericsson partner on private 5G, edge and physical AI

Private 5G is the backbone for scaling AI in production – the two hope their joint efforts will overcome the complex integration that so often present a big final hurdle in deployments

MWC26: du, Orange sign up to use agentic AWS, Nokia network slicing

Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) claim a first with AI-enabled 5G-Advanced network slicing solution in a live 5G network

Three Sweden targets broader B2B base with mobile-first communications tier

Operator builds tiered proposition on Telavox Platform, aiming to move beyond PBX-centric UCaaS and embed AI into business SIMs

Vivo Brazil’s engineers can talk to networks via Ericsson’s rApps as a Service

Agentic rApp as a Service is built on AWS and its natural language interface, powered by GenAI, translates their speech into instructions that AI agents carry out

Alliance wants to bring hyperscalers and telcos under common ‘trust’ banner

Fifteen companies spanning cloud, telecoms, semiconductors and AI set out shared principles for a “trusted technology stack”, as sovereignty debates intensify in Europe

Telefónica, Nokia work to speed adoption of APIs with agentic AI

Their efforts include integrating the A2A protocol and MCP as a step towards building an 'agent economy' and eventually an agentic monetisation ecosystem

Europe’s digital infrastructure enters 2026 on firmer footing

Europe is structurally better placed heading into 2026, with data centres and networks set to benefit from strong policy support, although energy constraints remain

NGMN sets out framework to simplify 5G network operations

The operator-led alliance argues that targeted simplification across radio, core and transport networks is becoming essential to manage cost, complexity and sustainability in 5G deployments

Creating value, scale at 5G’s edge for customers’ operational needs

Enterprises balance on-prem, cloud workloads, mobile devices and multiple access types, so edge only adds value if it reduces complexity elsewhere, rather than adds another isolated layer

ElevenLabs raises $500m as telco AI use grows

London-based ElevenLabs deepens its move into conversational AI for telecoms while backing from Nvidia and telco partners underscores broader industry adoption
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