Networking the AI Economy – Verizon on Global Fiber, Metro Access, Private 5G

Networking the AI economy – Verizon on global fiber, metro access, private 5G

Global, porgrammable, and dense – from the cloud to the edge: Verizon Business talked at MWC about how its sees the new AI stack evolving for telcos, and why its investments in backbone fiber, metro access, and private network will link cloud models and inference workloads to real-world machines. In sum – what to know: […]

Private 5G is just getting started but telcos' business model needs fixing

This new report from Mobile Europe includes insights from China Mobile International, Proximus Global, Telefónica Tech, Verizon Business and Vodafone Business, plus Deutsche Bahn In 2019 a Harvard University market-sizing exercise, commissioned by Nokia, calculated that there were 14.58 million potential venues for private LTE and, later, private 5G. The reality, as of December 2025, is that there are fewer than 2,000 private mobile network cust…