Given this growth slowdown, U.S. wireless operators face a conundrum. How will they continue showing robust net phone additions every quarter? There is no easy solution, but in this report TBR outlines some tactics operators are employing, or might employ in the future, to mitigate the negative immigration-related effects on their earnings results.
Red Hat Summit 2025 marked the company’s entry into AI inferencing with the productization of vLLM, the open-source project that has been shaping AI model execution over the past two years.
The deployment services market faces growing headwinds, including communication service provider (CSP) consolidation, open vRAN’s lower installation costs, and reduced demand for site location and construction (SL&C), offset somewhat by hyperscaler spend and 5G rollouts in select developing markets. Hyperscaler investments provide incremental volume to the market, and TBR notes these companies are increasing their investments in access technologies (e.g., Google Fiber).
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Automation, analytics, AI and machine learning will prove critical to helping vendors improve margins. Examples include portions of Nokia’s AVA (Analytics, Virtualization and Automation) portfolio and Ericsson’s Operations Engine. However, with a significant portion of revenue coming from deployment services, RAN-centric vendors will be unable to expand overall telecom infrastructure services margins significantly.
Nokia’s outsized and unique position in the broadband infrastructure ecosystem enables the company to play a key role in orchestrating partners and customers to achieve their objectives in the most optimal way possible. Fiber will remain the coveted access medium for high-speed broadband, but the world will also employ other broadband access mediums to a large extent.
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Cisco’s plan to acquire Splunk reflects the need for deep-pocketed traditional IT vendors to shift their own business models to incorporate more subscription revenue streams.