A survey by Verizon Frontline revealed daily AI usage by US public safety agencies nearly tripled over the past year while drone and robot deployments also saw an uptick.

The sixth annual Verizon Frontline Public Safety Communications Survey, conducted by Lexipol Media Group, highlighted daily use of AI reached nearly 32%, while 56% of public safety agency users anticipate daily AI reliance within three years, signalling it as a critical decision-support tool.

Additionally, the daily use of drones and robots increased from 15% to 26% as agencies more frequently use them to navigate hazardous environments to keep human emergency responders out of harm’s way while providing real-time situational awareness.

Network resilience remains a priority as agencies adopt these technologies, with more than 77% of the responders identifying it and reliability as their main operational requirements. Network performance also shapes personal device choices, with about 49% of respondents citing resilience and reliability as the biggest factor when selecting a device plan.

Kim Mirabella, VP of Verizon Public Sector and Verizon Frontline, stated the 2026 findings show technologies including AI and robotics, once considered futuristic, are already essential tools used by first responders every day.

Verizon stated 1,035 US public safety professionals took part in the survey

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The GSMA board outlined the industry’s connectivity priorities, calling for action on smartphone affordability, online scams and network investment while backing closer international cooperation on future 6G standards.

Following a board meeting in New Delhi, India, the industry association stated that although 97% of the global population live within mobile broadband coverage, 3.4 billion people remain unconnected to mobile internet. The cost of devices remains a significant barrier, with an entry-level internet-enabled handset equivalent to 44% of average monthly income for the poorest 20% of people in low- and middle-income countries.

The GSMA highlighted potential measures to improve affordability including financing schemes, targeted tax cuts and closer cooperation between device makers and memory suppliers.

It also identified scams and fraud as a growing threat, warning that although the mobile industry continues to strengthen network detection and cyber defence tools, “no single sector can tackle the threat alone”. The GSMA noted AI-generated content and deepfakes further add to risks for consumers, public trust and government objectives, calling on the industry to “join forces to counter scams with practical solutions”.

Sustained investment
The GSMA also highlighted the need for network investment and supportive policy to accelerate connectivity growth. It found mobile technologies and services generated $6 trillion in economic value in 2025, equivalent to 6.4% of global GDP. This figure is forecast to reach $11.3 trillion by 2030.

In addition, operators are projected to invest $1.2 trillion in capital expenditure between 2025 and 2030 to expand and upgrade networks, with 57% of mobile connections expected to use 5G by the end of the decade.

GSMA director general Vivek Badrinath said the sector’s next priority must be to translate 5G expansion into “meaningful value”, ensuring more people can participate in the digital economy. “This will require sustained investment, enabling policy and collaboration across the wider ecosystem,” he stressed.

Looking ahead, the industry association reiterated its support for global standards and harmonised spectrum as 6G development continues. It highlighted countries representing more than 80% of the world’s population support mobile use of the upper 6GHz band, which could provide the 200MHz to 400MHz channel bandwidths expected to be needed for 6G.

GSMA chair Gopal Vittal said that “by working through global standards and collaborating across markets, we can accelerate innovation, strengthen trust and resilience” as the industry develops the next generation of connectivity.

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Apple expanded its smart home portfolio of devices as it looks to better compete against rivals including Google and Amazon, which included the debut of its $299 HomeView hub.

HomeView Hub, which is available from 13 November, recognises users by their faces to allow them to give hands-free commands to access personal content across Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders, and Find My.

It is available in two distinct configurations: a tabletop design powered by a standard USB-C cable or a wall-mounted version which connects via various options, including Ethernet or Power over Ethernet (PoE) wired mounts, with the latter available in early 2027.

HomeView Hub, which includes a 7-inch LiquidRetina display, does not have buttons, instead it relies on the new Siri AI to enable users to access apps or content. With a built-in, front facing FaceTime camera, it can recognise up to six different users by voice or appearance. It then gives personalised responses to each one for tasks such as accessing calendars, videoconferencing, viewing cooking recipes or listening to music through its speakers.

CCS Insight chief analyst Ben Wood, who attended today’s (13 October) event in New York City, told Mobile World Live HomeView “has quite a distinctive design compared to rival smart home devices”.

“It will be immediately familiar to anyone who has used an Apple Watch, and Apple has the advantage that it can use Apple ID to easily and securely identify individuals in a household to provide information specifically about them,” he said. “It is little surprise that the HomeView coincides with Apple’s renewed push on Siri AI and Apple Intelligence.

“The company has undoubtedly been waiting for the upgraded Siri experience, given how important the voice interactions are with this product,” he added.

To increase its presence in the smart home sector, the iPhone maker partnered with LG Electronics Inc. and Schneider Electric SE to release a lineup of Apple Home Collection accessories, including indoor and outdoor cameras, a video doorbell, thermostats, and door locks.

Wood noted these partnerships signalled a willingness by Apple to go outside of its own ecosystem to develop new products and services.

“However, looking closely, it appears like there has been very deep collaboration between Apple and these partners to ensure the design, engineering and experience closely match what users would expect,” he explained.

While Apple’s tie-ups with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric mark a shift from its traditional strategy, Wood argued they give consumers a single source for a smart home set-up.

“By making cameras, a lock, thermostats and a doorbell as easy to connect as AirPods, the companies address one of the sector’s biggest hurdles: “the complexity of getting things working,” he said.

Availability for the Home Collection products starts in December, with select accessories available beginning early 2027. The prices range from $199 to $399.

“Since Apple is calling the suite of new products the Apple Home Collection, I’d expect it to dedicate space in its extensive network of Apple Stores to showcase a turnkey smart home solution,” Wood stated. “Given that many technology enthusiasts have already adopted smart home products from other manufacturers, I suspect Apple’s new lineup will appeal to customers who have considered investing in a smart home device but have been apprehensive about the category’s complexity.”

Under the leadership of CEO John Ternus, who took over in September from Tim Cook, Wood argued Apple is taking a cautious approach to the smart home market where rivals such as Amazon’s Ring, Google’s Nest and Arlo and others “already have a strong profile”.

“But Apple may benefit from making the experience seamless, building on its trusted reputation and focus on privacy while giving existing customers yet another reason to stay inside its extremely strong ecosystem,” he said.

More devices
Alongside HomeView, Apple unveiled an updated Apple TV 4K set-top box with built-in microphones and a remote control which is easier to locate. It also features Siri AI which enables users talk to Siri hands-free.

Customers in the US and 29 other countries and regions can pre-order Apple TV 4K starting today from Apple’s online and in the Apple Store app, with availability in stores beginning 13 November. It cost $299 or $9.83 per month for six months.

It also introduced the HomePod mini 2 speaker, which comes in a fresh range of colours, including pink, green, blue, white, and midnight, and features lighting animations which reflect the album artwork of the song being played.

The speaker can provide room-filling sound on its own, as part of a stereo pair or in a multiroom audio set-up. When connected to the new Apple TV 4K, four HomePod Mini 2 speakers can create a surround-sound home cinema system which Apple claims is its most immersive home theatre setup to date. Multiple users can also control smart home accessories and automations securely through voice commands.

HomePod Mini 2 can be pre-ordered starting today with availability beginning on 30 October. It is priced at $149.

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India’s Adani Enterprises Limited and Apple supplier Jabil signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a 50:50 joint venture, tasked with manufacturing AI and data centre equipment in the country.

The JV is the next step on from a deal struck by the duo in June 2026 to form a strategic alliance to develop an AI and data centre infrastructure manufacturing ecosystem.

Once established, the pair stated the venture will supply hyperscalers, neoclouds, data centre operators and enterprises, serving accelerating data centre demand.

The companies cited industry forecasts which project India’s AI capacity will reach between 5 gigawatts to 8 gigawatts by 2030 and more than $50 billion in planned hyperscale spending across data centre, cloud and AI ecosystems.

In total, the pair peg the global market opportunity at more than $3 trillion over the next seven years, driven by investment in AI computing.

The duo will look to cash in on this demand by providing a manufacturing base in the country to serve domestic demand and support exports.

Adani Group, which runs the enterprise division, has made a $100 billion commitment to develop 5 gigawatts of green-energy powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035, and the proposed venture adds hardware manufacturing to the group’s presence across infrastructure, energy and logistics.

Jabil makes components for Apple and will use the JV to expand its engineering footprint across India. It reported revenue of $36 billion in fiscal 2026.

Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, said “the AI revolution will demand far more than just breakthroughs in algoritms” and the proposed JV would “help build the physical backbone of the global AI economy”.

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Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) reportedly claimed the company had reached the “frontier” of AI, as it unveiled two new models designed to handle complex personal and professional tasks.

Following hefty investments in computing infrastructure and research, the technology giant said Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI mark “our most capable models to date”.

The models can handle tasks ranging from coding and document analysis to interpreting legal information, personal finance and health data.

Among key features is Active Memory, enabling the retention of relevant user information across conversations. The agents are also equipped with Active Focus to help them continue pursuing longer tasks, adapt to new information, recover from errors and ask users for clarification before taking important actions.

Meta claimed its evaluations showed strong results across benchmarks covering agent performance, memory and coding, adding the advanced Muse Wonder Full version performs better on unfamiliar tasks.

Built responsibly
Unlike its earlier open-source strategy, Meta is offering Muse Wonder through its own developer and subscription channels in a direct challenge to AI chatbots from rivals including OpenAI and Anthropic. According to the Financial Times (FT), Meta said it would charge companies from between 20 cents per million tokens for basic access to as much as $200 a month for the more powerful Muse Wonder Full. 

Speaking to the publication on the launch in which he made the comment about frontier AI, Zuckerberg added the new models would enable “much more sophisticated behaviours that are at the frontier of what is being done in the AI field”.

Meta claims Muse Wonder surpasses Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on certain technical measures.

Zuckerberg added that reaching this point required “a large amount of compute and investment” alongside sustained research. He told the FT that further model development and spending was under way, stating the company was “already working on the next step up”.

The chief also played down mounting concerns about increasingly capable AI systems escaping human control, declaring: “I’m much closer to the belief that AI is a technology that can be engineered with normal guardrails and built responsibly.”

Meta said its new models were trained to prevent unauthorised disclosure of private information and reject requests to facilitate harmful actions, while retaining agentic capabilities for defensive cybersecurity work.

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Nokia signed an agreement to sell its Enterprise Campus Edge (ECE) business to investment company Aurelius Group, a move the Finnish vendor stated sharpens its portfolio and directs capital to areas earmarked for long-term value.

Value of the planned transaction was undisclosed and Nokia expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027, subject to customary closing conditions.

Nokia this month also completed a deal to sell its fixed wireless access (FWA) CPE business to US broadband vendor Inseego.

Under Aurelius’ ownership, Nokia said ECE will continue to operate as a standalone business but benefit from greater independence and a dedicated strategic focus. Employees are expected to transfer with the business, in accordance with applicable local laws and processes.

ECE has a big presence in the private wireless market, serving almost 900 customers across industries including manufacturing, mining, logistics, airports, ports and power generation worldwide.

Its portfolio also includes industrial devices, on-premises operational technology, edge and micro-edge solutions and software applications to power industrial AI use cases.

Konstanty Owczarek, chief corporate development officer at Nokia, said the deal provides ECE a strong foundation for growth. “Our priority throughout the transition will be continued growth of the business and continuity for existing customers and employees,” he added.

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BT Business unveiled a managed security service aimed at increasing protection against AI-enhanced attacks for enterprises and public sector organisations, combining its technology and know-how with that of partner Microsoft.

Announcing the Security Operations Centre-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) product for the Microsoft Sentinel platform, the operator noted the launch was the result of an extended relationship with its partner across AI, security and cloud.

BT added the product combined the tech giant’s “leading security technology” with its scale, security and network operations.

Pointing to the need for beefed-up security in the AI era given accelerated attack timelines, BT positioned the offering as helping customers cut complexity of security operations, control costs and “improve detection, response and resilience”.

BT Business CEO Jon James explained “AI is transforming the cyber threat landscape at unprecedented speed, and our customers need protection that stays one step ahead”.

“By extending our partnership with Microsoft, we’re combining cutting-edge security technology with BT’s cyber expertise and threat intelligence to deliver stronger, more proactive protection”.

The managed service launch is the latest enterprise-focused offering promoted as helping UK organisations battle the ever-increasing tide of cybercrime.

In May, it unveiled what it called industrial-grade security products for small and medium sized businesses using technology from specialist CrowdStrike.  

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Interview: AT&T Business selected Amazon Leo for an enterprise broadband service designed to complement its fibre and 5G offerings, describing the satellite provider as a business-grade alternative to Starlink.

Shawn Hakl, SVP and head of product at AT&T Business (pictured), told Mobile World Live the service adds a third connectivity option, including in areas beyond the reach of AT&T’s terrestrial networks.

“We’ve done a lot of integration with Amazon and we’re working with them at different levels,” he said. “We’ve tested the product out pretty extensively and we’ve seen sub-50 millisecond latency. We’re also extremely happy with the throughput.”

Amazon Leo selected AT&T Business as its sole US telecoms launch partner.

“They’ve been extremely willing to work with us to fine-tune the interaction between the two networks,” Hakl explained. “We’re working closely with them on how to harmonise the in-air component and the interaction between our network and the ground stations.”

AT&T Business is providing the last-mile connectivity and local customer equipment for the service, while working with Amazon on the interaction between AT&T’s terrestrial network and Amazon Leo’s ground stations.

He said the operator is striving to make the connection between its network and the cloud “a software consumable element” which could be combined with satellite, wireless and wireline connectivity in an end-to-end architecture rather than offered as a series of point-to-point products.

Hakl said some customers will want traditional active-passive setups, others active configurations and some multiple-box arrangements.

“I don’t think we can get down to a single box in the first iteration,” he noted.

Hakl stated combining fibre, 5G and satellite will enable AT&T Business to deliver different services, SLAs and business outcomes for each customer. This will give customers more granular control over how applications use network resources, including the ability to balance performance, cost and security across their connectivity options.

Customers could choose how much control they retain, Hakl said. Some may want to manage network decisions in detail, while others could leave them to AI models.

Hakl noted AT&T has sold satellite services for a decade, particularly in agriculture, manufacturing and retail, while public safety through FirstNet is another area of focus.

“If the price point comes down, obviously it becomes more of an option for different segments in the market,” he stated. “We’re just impressed with Amazon’s technology and feel like it’s the business-grade solution that’s out there.”

Hakl said AT&T Business expects to offer the service next year, although the timing remains tied to Amazon Leo’s satellite launch schedule.

Launch timing
In July, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp outlined a plan to rebuild its Florida launch pad with a new configuration after a failed attempt as it works toward returning its New Glenn rocket to flight before the end of the year.

Also in July, Amazon Leo applied to the US Federal Communications Commission to deploy up to 5,105 birds to deliver direct-to-device services to mobile devices.

And in October, Amazon company communications manager Zack Brown revealed the company currently has 396 LEO birds in orbit and said the company has built over 1,000 satellites at its 172,000-square-foot production facility in Kirkland, Washington.

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Microsoft took the wraps off the third-generation of its in-house AI chip, as part of a plan to reduce its reliance on buying processors from Nvidia.

The Maia 300 chip will be used for the tech giant’s multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027, making it the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services. Reuters reported it plans to potentially deploy more than 1 million of the chips next year.

According to a blog post from EVP Scott Guthrie, the company expects Maia 300 to deliver 40% more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems without naming Nvidia.

The Maia 300 is built as a single system, with software, silicon, physical rack infrastructure, networking, and data centres co-designed to operate as a single platform.

Guthrie noted a 96-chip rack offers seven times the rack-scale token throughput of Microsoft’s Maia 200. He said the new chip is “designed with an inference-first architecture optimized for long-context, memory-intensive and decode-heavy AI workloads”.

The Maia 200 chip powers the company’s production workloads, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as OpenAI models running on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service.

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Elon Musk pledged to make Starlink affordable in India as he renewed his attack on billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s (pictured) telecoms dominance, days before Jio Platforms launches a record-breaking IPO.

In a series of posts on social media platform X, the SpaceX chief argued that competition from Starlink would benefit Indian consumers by expanding connectivity options. “The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does,” he explained, adding, “Ambani’s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business”.

Musk also dismissed claims that Starlink would struggle to compete with Jio’s low-cost data plans while also posing a threat to the incumbent operator. “This is absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole,” he said.

His comments come as Jio Platforms targets a valuation of around $106 billion, according to Reuters, in a planned IPO that could become India’s largest-ever listing. The business includes telecoms operation Reliance Jio, which reported 524.4 million subscribers at the end of March, including 268.5 million 5G customers.

“Prime Minister Ambani“
Musk has escalated his criticism of India’s regulatory process in recent days, accusing authorities and “certain oligarchs” of delaying Starlink’s entry into the country to maintain a “monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people”.

In a separate post on Friday (9 October), he sarcastically addressed the Jio Platforms-owner as “Prime Minister Ambani” and asked whether he would “consider allowing Starlink to compete”.

He argued satellite connectivity could bring internet access to underserved communities, improve educational opportunities and enable small businesses to reach international markets.

“Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India,” he wrote, adding “Starlink would change their lives for the better”.

India’s Ministry of Communications has rejected allegations of discriminatory treatment, stating that Starlink and incumbents Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio were at broadly the same stage of the regulatory process. All three have secured initial approvals but remain subject to outstanding security clearances before they can obtain spectrum access.

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Indian IT firm HCLTech struck an agreement with Anthropic to establish a separate business unit designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance.

HCLTech stated its services team will build industry solutions and offerings powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Cowork and Claude Code, while its HCLSoftware business unit will embed these capabilities into select enterprise products.

The company will further establish a dedicated “Anthropic Business Unit and Centre of Excellence” to accelerate use of Claude in enterprise environments, providing secure sandbox environments to enable development.

Clients will also be aided by the partnership with the adoption of AI-native engineering practices, training workforces and building organisational capabilities to operate agentic AI safety at scale.

As what is known as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner, HCLSoftware will be given access to advanced models. It cited select products across cybersecurity, automation, business process application and application development as services that will benefit from advanced Claude capabilities.

Claude will also be used across IT support and for digital employee services, workflows supported by policy guardrails, exception handling and human oversight for high-impact changes.

CEO and managing director at HCLTech, C Vijayakumar, said few technology companies can combine the scale of a global systems integrator with the product depth of an ISV.

“That gives us a rare advantage to securely engineer and deploy Agentic AI at scale and deliver the business outcomes that matter most to our clients.”

HCLTech’s deal with Anthropic follows an agreement worth $1.1 billion in July with a major unnamed European company to deploy AI services and boost enterprise services for the business.

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Nvidia is reportedly in talks to either acquire or increase its investment in open-source start-up Reflection AI, as it seeks to strengthen its position in open-weight AI models and challenge lower cost Chinese rivals.

Sources told the Financial Times (FT) discussions remain at an early stage and could lead to a full acquisition, further equity investment or a deal covering chips and computing capacity. An acqui-hire, under which Nvidia would recruit staff and license technology, is another option.

A deal could apparently be reached in the coming weeks, though the terms under discussion remain unclear.

According to the report, Nvidia has already invested $800 million in Reflection AI, which was valued at $25 billion in a March funding round. Founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers, the start-up develops AI models and tools for software development.

Reflection launched its first open-weight model, Beam, last week, targeting coding and agentic tasks as it looks to compete with Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi.

Open-weight models allow businesses and developers to customise AI systems and run them on their own infrastructure, potentially cutting costs compared with closed services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.

Although Nvidia has its own Nemotron family of open-weight models, FT said it lacks a frontier-scale model of its own. In an essay published in July, CEO Jensen Huang called for a domestic open-weight “ecosystem” across the US, arguing it was essential for “creating opportunities for innovation and prosperity across the country”. “In fact, openness may be one of the most important paths to AI safety and security,” he argued, adding “relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe” as “they can be breached, misused, or fail in ways that outsiders cannot detect”.

Reflection AI has also secured substantial computing capacity from SpaceX. The deal, struck in June, gives the start-up access to Nvidia’s GB300 chips at SpaceX’s Colossus 2 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, for $150 million per month through 2029.

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MWL‘s Mike Robuck sits down with executives from Ericsson, AT&T, Verizon and the US Department of War (DoW) to discuss the progress Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has made this year and where it is headed next.

Ericsson Federal CEO Christopher Ling sees sensing as a potential killer app for 6G, arguing it could give the US military a reason to invest in commercial cellular infrastructure beyond connectivity.

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) turns communications networks into sensors by analysing radio signals reflected from objects. It can detect, track and identify objects in much the same way as radar.

Ericsson Federal Technologies Group is the vendor’s US unit focused on adapting its commercial network technology for federal government and national-security customers.

ISAC has moved beyond laboratory testing over the past year. It has been demonstrated at a stadium, included in a US Department of War (DoW) contract and proposed for a Los Angeles, California trial ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

Dr Tom Rondeau, principal director of the DoW’s FutureG programme, said denser 5G and 6G networks, edge-based AI compute and greater access to commercial spectrum are making network-based sensing viable.

“We have a network that covers 70% of the landmass of the United States and about 98% of the population,” he said. “That’s what we’re trying to use this for, to kick off the value proposition of ISAC.”

Rondeau highlighted drones, particularly swarms, as the immediate focus. The aim is to find, fix and track potentially thousands of devices, including in dense cities where traditional sensors struggle and radar cannot simply be pointed into open sky.

“It’s one thing to have a missile defence system or a drone defence system that gets to look up and out into open airspace,” he said, “but it’s another to track it in downtown New York [City] or downtown [Washington] DC.”

Network density could compensate for the limited sensing range of individual sites. At the power levels involved, a single base station might reach only a few kilometres, but sites spaced every half kilometre could extend coverage across much of the network.

Rondeau (pictured, left) pointed to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb, in which drones smuggled deep into Russian territory and controlled over Russia’s cellular network reportedly destroyed roughly a third of its strategic bomber fleet.

“That tells us that we can no longer think of border security as just looking out of our geographical borders,” he said. “We have to be able to look across our entire nation.”

Rondeau also sees civilian applications for ISAC. Drawing on his time at DARPA studying emergency planning, he cited Hurricane Katrina, when evacuation plans fell apart because people did not go where planners expected.

“It’s not like we’re going to redirect them to where we want to be,” he said, “so why don’t we redirect the resources to where they actually are.”

Trials
AT&T and Ericsson ran a drone-detection demonstration near AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, during the FIFA World Cup football tournament a few months ago.

In nearby Dallas, Verizon and Samsung tested a crowd-density heatmap at the World Cup FanFest area, designed to help fans find shorter queues and organisers manage foot traffic.

“That was a crowd sensing for the FanFest area, which is completely different to detecting drones,” said Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio. “It looks like a business-to-business opportunity that you can monetise.”

Tenorio explained ISAC presents fewer privacy concerns than cameras because it returns shape, movement and rough size rather than identity. It can distinguish “a pedestrian from a bicycle and a drone from a bird”, though not one person from another.

The DoW has also begun funding development. In July, Cohere Technologies won a $28 million contract from the FutureG Office to build a multi-waveform radio access network prototype which uses commercial cellular infrastructure to detect drones and other aerial threats.

Ericsson and Finnish state-owned ICT company Erillisverkot have also run live demonstrations in a Helsinki cargo harbour, using sensing data from several network points to detect small, low-altitude drones.

Verizon’s 6G forum
Verizon has made ISAC one of two anchor themes of its 6G Innovation Forum, which it expanded in September. The other theme is AI wearables. Tenorio stated the forum was created to “design 6G bottoms up”, starting with viable use cases and how they might be monetised.

At Qualcomm’s San Diego, California campus, Verizon tested 100MHz to 400MHz of millimetre-wave spectrum across four synchronised transmission and reception points. The system mapped the position and velocity of an airborne target and moving ground vehicles while keeping a phone user on the ground connected over standalone 5G. Verizon presented the trial as a test of drone and vehicle safety tracking.

Millimetre wave was the only spectrum which offered enough bandwidth, Tenorio said, and bandwidth, more than frequency, determines sensing accuracy.

“The precision of the positioning and the radar image… is proportional to the bandwidth of the signal,” he stated. “Not so much the frequency, but the bandwidth.”

Technology divide
Huawei appears to have an early lead in ISAC deployments. Ling said Ericsson had been told the Chinese vendor has more than 300 ISAC-capable systems operating, although he cautioned the figure might not be exact. He linked the reported lead to China’s early nationwide shift to standalone 5G.

Ling (pictured, left) explained there’s a difference in terms of network architecture. In a monostatic configuration, one tower transmits a signal and receives its reflection, indicating an object’s presence and general direction. Huawei developed a monostatic system and, in Ling’s view, may now be reconsidering that approach. As far as he knows, Ericsson is the only company using a multistatic configuration, in which one site transmits and other sites receive the reflected signal, enabling more precise location and tracking.

A monostatic system might show an object is off to the left, he said. A multistatic system could place it 1,500 metres away, measure its speed and track it to within eight to 10 metres, the resolution he said the Arlington demonstration achieved.

Ling stressed that Ericsson is focused on 5G sensing rather than a fully integrated sensing and communication system. Turning a 5G network into a radar remains a significant technical challenge, he noted, and the company wants to establish the capability before moving further.

It has committed $100 million to ISAC and expects a commercial product within two years, ahead of the standards debate expected at the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference.

Ling said micro-Doppler signatures from spinning propellers could allow the system to identify a drone type as well as locate it. “It’s not only detecting, tracking, you can get identification from it as well,” he said.

The resolution may eventually be good enough to support targeting without the more expensive radar systems the military uses today.

“You’ve got a drone that costs $30,000 and we’re shooting it down with a million-dollar missile,” he said. “This starts to bend the cost curve.”

Ericsson has held discussions with European countries bordering Russia, Ling added, and sees growing interest in the Middle East, where governments are concerned about protecting infrastructure.

From 5G to 6G
Tenorio described current ISAC work as a step towards 6G. Vendors are fitting sensing into 5G and 5G-Advanced systems while preserving as much connectivity capacity as possible; 6G would allow them to design the capability into the network from the outset.

“On 5G, you’re just squeezing it in as best as you possibly can,” he said. “But if you understand how it works, you have the opportunity to design it natively in 6G in a way that comes with no compromise.”

Verizon plans to extend its ISAC work to Los Angeles. The carrier has applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a one-year experimental licence to use 4.8GHz to 4.9GHz spectrum, part of the 4.4GHz band the NTIA is studying for 5G and 6G. It plans to test Ericsson hardware and software in and around its LA lab. The filing describes an outdoor private network within a five-kilometre radius, separate from commercial networks. The application is pending.

Tenorio called the band “a good compromise” between available bandwidth and a frequency low enough to propagate farther. Verizon has also applied to take part in the NTIA’s Mission 6G 28 programme, which will showcase 6G technology around the 2028 Olympics.

“LA will be an important opportunity for us to display not only what 6G is about… but where we are in terms of advancing the technology,” he said.

Beyond drones and crowds, Tenorio sees enterprise uses such as digital twins of factories and campuses. At shorter ranges, he said, ISAC could support vital-sign monitoring and fall detection in elderly care.

Shawn Hakl, SVP and head of product at AT&T Business, sees the value in places where cameras and sensors are impractical, or the assets belong to someone else. He cited public safety, analytics and flow control, and spotting changes such as an unplanned obstruction on a city street.

“ISAC gives us a way to get sort of topology information, environment information without having physically deployed stuff and basically getting signal data back,” he said.

Ling stated the military case may ultimately depend on sensing rather than connectivity: a customer which would not buy a 5G network solely for communications could still need the infrastructure to obtain 5G sensing.

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Telia Company outlined plans to cut approximately 900 jobs across the group and lower its operating cost base, setting a target of achieving annual gross savings amounting to SEK1 billion ($100 million).

The company stated its moves represent the next step in becoming simpler, faster and more efficient, with an intention to localise its operations further “and strengthen the role of its country units in meeting evolving customer needs”.

As part of the shake-up, it will transfer approximately 220 positions primarily from its common Technology unit to country units. The 900-headcount reduction will hit all units, covering both employees and resource consultations.

The restructure is expected to be completed by 31 December, subject to customary union negotiations and will result in charges of SEK600 million in Q4 206, with cash flow effect mainly in 2027.

Finland will be the most impacted by the staff cuts, with 280 reductions, followed by home market Sweden with 260.

Patrik Hofbauer, CEO and president at Telia (pictured), said the plan was part of building the future Telia and further localisation “means doubling down on what we know gets results”.

“We must always become even simpler, faster and more efficient in everything we do.​ We want to empower our countries more, get the utmost from our common Technology unit and other Group Functions, and sharpen Telia’s edge in a very competitive market,” he added.

As of 1 October, the company had a total 14,100 employees.

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Plusieurs groupes de l’aérospatiale et de la défense s’opposeraient à l’initiative, soutenue par SpaceX, visant à refondre la coordination du spectre sans fil pour les lancements de fusées.

Bloomberg rapporte que les changements proposés remplaceraient le système de coordination des fréquences assuré par un tiers, qui supervise la manière dont les agences gouvernementales et les entités commerciales se partagent les principales bandes de télémétrie.

La Federal Communications Commission (FCC) américaine a sollicité des commentaires publics sur la modernisation de la coordination du spectre pour les lancements, à la suite d’un mémorandum présidentiel d’août 2026 et d’une pétition déposée par la Commercial Space Federation (CSF).

Selon des documents déposés et relevés par le média Vertical Aviation International, la CSF a demandé à la FCC de remplacer le processus existant de coordination des fréquences pour les essais en vol par une coordination directe et une base de données automatisée, quasi en temps réel, couvrant les bandes de télémétrie partagées.

Une coalition représentant des organisations de l’aérospatiale et de la défense, des constructeurs d’avions dont Boeing et Lockheed Martin, et des opérateurs d’essais en vol a déposé des commentaires formels invitant la FCC à procéder avec prudence.

Dans une contribution commune, l’Aerospace & Defense Industry Spectrum Coalition avertit que les changements de coordination proposés pourraient accroître le risque d’interférences électromagnétiques nuisibles.

La coalition indique que ces fréquences partagées sont essentielles à la télémétrie de sécurité en temps réel lors des évaluations d’avions prototypes, des vols de certification d’aéronefs électriques à décollage et atterrissage verticaux (eVTOL) et des essais de préparation opérationnelle de la défense.

Elle soutient aussi que le calendrier accéléré de consultation de la FCC n’a pas laissé assez de temps pour mener des études techniques approfondies permettant de vérifier l’absence d’interférences.

Le litige force la FCC à arbitrer entre l’acceptation de calendriers de lancement de fusées plus rapides et la nécessité de protéger les utilisateurs du même spectre dans l’aérospatiale et la défense contre les interférences nuisibles.

Feu vert de la FCC

SpaceX a remporté une victoire réglementaire en obtenant de la FCC l’autorisation de lancer 15 000 satellites de nouvelle génération pour son service mobile de connexion directe aux appareils (D2D), ouvrant la voie à une concurrence directe avec AT&T, T-Mobile US et Verizon.

SpaceX avait déposé sa demande auprès de la FCC en septembre 2025, avant de rebaptiser plus tôt cette année son offre satellite D2D en Starlink Mobile.

SpaceX, contrôlée par Elon Musk, vise un débit descendant de 150 Mb/s pour son service D2D, contre environ 4 Mb/s en liaison descendante pour l’offre Starlink commercialisée par T-Mobile.

Plutôt que de s’appuyer sur un réseau terrestre doté de tours cellulaires, SpaceX prévoit d’associer ses satellites à des femtocells au sol pour fournir une couverture mobile 5G, un plan que de nombreux dirigeants du secteur jugent irréaliste.

« Avec cette décision, les déploiements prévus par SpaceX vont remodeler la connectivité fondée sur le spectre en améliorant la concurrence et en offrant à plus de consommateurs plus de choix dans plus d’endroits, afin de servir l’objectif de la Commission de connecter chacun, partout, à des services de communication modernes », a indiqué la FCC le 6 octobre. Elle a également accordé à SpaceX une dérogation lui permettant de proposer son service via des satellites sans conclure d’accord de location avec un opérateur mobile terrestre.

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Un programador ha creado un videojuego para móviles con el que experimentar el dilema de enviar avisos de emergencia, mientras la Generalitat trabaja para reducir la «sobrealerta» y geolocalizar mejor unas notificaciones gestionadas desde el Estado que han sufrido fallos técnicos.

El uso del sistema de emergencias para dispositivos móviles en Catalunya ha generado debate entre la población y en el ámbito político. Según 3CatInfo, en Catalunya se han enviado más de 150 mensajes ES-Alert desde que el sistema se activó hace tres años. En concreto, hasta mediados de septiembre de 2026 se habían registrado 149 envíos, una cifra que ha aumentado durante octubre a causa de los recientes episodios de lluvias intensas. Numerosos usuarios han criticado como «sobrealerta» algunos avisos recibidos por lluvias o tormentas —por «cuatro gotas» o en zonas donde finalmente no ha llovido—, y ahora se ha presentado una iniciativa que busca poner de relieve la dificultad de tomar este tipo de decisiones en tiempo real.

El simulador y su creador

El videojuego ES-Alert Simulator ha sido creado por el programador Xavier Garcia, aficionado a la meteorología. La idea surgió de las críticas que veía en las redes sociales cada vez que se activaba una alerta. Según Garcia, el objetivo no es politizar la situación ni menospreciar el servicio, sino mostrar la complejidad de decidir si se alerta o se espera.

En la simulación, el jugador asume el rol de jefe de guardia de Protección Civil durante un episodio de lluvias en Catalunya. Debe gestionar el tiempo y analizar las herramientas de previsión —un radar, información de incidencias y los avisos de Meteocat y de la AEMET, que no siempre coinciden— para decidir cuándo pulsar el botón de enviar la alerta.

Cada decisión tiene un impacto inmediato. Un panel superior contabiliza víctimas, rescates, personas aisladas, coste económico, credibilidad del servicio y molestia ciudadana, y el juego reproduce la reacción de los usuarios en las redes sociales. Al terminar el episodio, el jugador se enfrenta a un balance de daños y a una rueda de prensa que evalúa su gestión, y puede acabar ante una comisión de investigación en el Parlament si el resultado es negativo.

Los planes de Protección Civil

Paralelamente, el Parlament de Catalunya ha aprobado mociones para revisar los protocolos y buscar un equilibrio entre la «sobrealerta» y la «alerta justa». La subdirectora de Emergencias de Protección Civil de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Imma Solé, ha explicado a la televisión pública catalana que existen limitaciones tecnológicas: el alcance mínimo de un aviso lo determina la cobertura de la antena telefónica, que puede abarcar muchos kilómetros y llevar el mensaje a zonas sin peligro inminente.

Para lograr envíos más precisos en zonas reducidas, Protección Civil prevé usar tecnologías de llamadas y conexiones satelitales a medida que se generalicen en la telefonía. También planea introducir alertas de nivel 2 (con consejos de prevención) y de nivel 3 (para pedir colaboración ciudadana), menos intrusivas porque solo las recibirán los usuarios que hayan activado voluntariamente las notificaciones de emergencia. Los avisos de nivel 1 (amenaza inmediata para la vida) seguirán siendo obligatorios y simultáneos.

Un sistema estatal con fallos

Los avisos de ES-Alert se emiten mediante el sistema centralizado del Ministerio del Interior, que ejecuta las órdenes de las comunidades autónomas. Este sistema ha sufrido varias incidencias en Catalunya. En julio de 2025, un error de comunicación entre plataformas hizo que un 40 % de los móviles (usuarios de MasOrange y sus operadores virtuales) no recibiera la alerta ante un episodio de lluvias fuertes. En febrero de 2026, un error en la carga de celdas del sistema central impidió que cerca del 20 % de los usuarios (clientes de Vodafone y sus marcas) recibiera un aviso por vientos fuertes durante la borrasca Nils.

Aunque la Ley de Telecomunicaciones contempla sanciones por este tipo de fallos, no consta que las autoridades abrieran ningún expediente sancionador, ya que sustituyeron las penalizaciones por reuniones de trabajo.

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Los ingresos anualizados de OpenAI se han situado en 50.000 millones de dólares (unos 43.000 millones de euros) en septiembre, según los informes, lo que supone 20.000 millones de dólares (unos 17.000 millones de euros) menos de lo que apuntaban las estimaciones publicadas en los medios. La diferencia se debe a discrepancias contables y no a una desaceleración de la demanda.

Según el Financial Times (FT), los documentos financieros consultados por los inversores sitúan los ingresos anuales de la empresa en 50.000 millones de dólares (unos 43.000 millones de euros) en septiembre, y no en los 70.000 millones (unos 61.000 millones de euros) que se habían difundido.

El diario ha señalado que la diferencia obedece a que un inversor de OpenAI intentó comparar los resultados de la empresa con los ingresos anualizados de su rival Anthropic. CNBC ha informado de que los de Anthropic ascendían a 65.000 millones de dólares (unos 56.000 millones de euros) a finales de julio de 2026.

Aunque la diferencia de 20.000 millones de dólares (unos 17.000 millones de euros) pueda parecer una caída brusca, OpenAI ha explicado a los inversores que sus ingresos directos crecieron más de un 70 % solo en el tercer trimestre de 2026, según el Financial Times.

Reuters y otros medios habían informado de que OpenAI se acercaba a los 70.000 millones de dólares (unos 61.000 millones de euros) a finales de septiembre, a partir de un aumento de más del doble de las ventas a empresas desde julio.

Según el Financial Times, las dos empresas de IA calculan los ingresos de forma distinta: Anthropic incluye las ventas de socios en la nube como Amazon Web Services y Google, mientras que OpenAI no.

Anthropic tiene previsto, según los informes, salir a bolsa en noviembre, después de las elecciones de mitad de mandato en Estados Unidos, mientras que OpenAI prevé comenzar a cotizar el año que viene.

Con información de Michael Robuck.

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SpaceX, controlada por Elon Musk, ha suscrito un acuerdo para comprar una cartera nacional de espectro de baja frecuencia a Grain Management, un paso más en su intento de competir con las operadoras estadounidenses por los clientes de telefonía móvil.

La operación abarca toda la cartera nacional de Grain Management, que incluye hasta 14 MHz de espectro emparejado en la banda de 800 MHz, y requiere la aprobación de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones (FCC). No se han difundido las condiciones económicas.

“Esta es la última pieza del rompecabezas del espectro que SpaceX necesita para proporcionar cobertura telefónica completa en Estados Unidos”, ha escrito Musk en X, en respuesta a una publicación que cuestionaba la estrategia de comunicación directa con dispositivos (D2D) de la firma.

SpaceX sostiene que el espectro global de banda media de 2 GHz de Starlink Mobile permitirá ofrecer cobertura de alta capacidad en EE. UU., mientras que las frecuencias de banda baja que ha acordado comprar penetran mejor en paredes y otros obstáculos y permitirán llegar a dispositivos en interiores. Añade que la mayoría de los móviles actuales ya son compatibles con esta banda infrautilizada.

SpaceX planea combinar sus satélites con femtoceldas terrestres para ofrecer cobertura móvil 5G, un plan que muchos directivos del sector consideran poco realista.

La empresa afirma que el espectro de baja frecuencia resolvería una carencia técnica pendiente y facilitaría que Starlink Mobile opere como operador de telefonía móvil en Estados Unidos.

SpaceX ha declarado que, una vez obtenida la aprobación, “desplegará una arquitectura flexible que combine nuestra constelación de satélites para móviles en el espacio con un despliegue terrestre avanzado que podrá conectar dispositivos sin interrupciones en cualquier lugar”.

El movimiento se suma a su plan de lanzar un servicio para hogares que compita con los de T-Mobile US, Verizon y AT&T.

A principios de este mes, SpaceX ha obtenido la autorización de la FCC para lanzar 15.000 satélites de nueva generación para comunicaciones directas con dispositivos (D2D).

T-Mobile US había formalizado en agosto la venta de su cartera nacional de espectro de 800 MHz a Grain Management a cambio de 2.900 millones de dólares (unos 2.500 millones de euros) en efectivo y todas las licencias de 600 MHz de esta última, más de un año después de alcanzar un acuerdo preliminar.

Grain Management ya había presentado un plan para colaborar con Black & Veatch, especialista en energía e infraestructuras, con el fin de ofrecer el espectro radioeléctrico a empresas de servicios públicos, operadores de infraestructuras cruciales y operadores rurales y regionales.

Con información de Michael Robuck.

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CaixaBank y Google Cloud han anunciado que amplían hasta 2033 el acuerdo que firmaron en 2023. El pacto incluye inteligencia artificial (IA), gestión y análisis de datos e infraestructura en la nube, con el objetivo de avanzar en la digitalización del banco y mejorar su eficiencia operativa.

El banco, de origen catalán pero con sede en Valencia desde 2017, utilizará la plataforma Gemini Enterprise para crear agentes de IA, agilizar el trabajo de sus empleados y reforzar la ciberseguridad.

Gemini Enterprise

El acuerdo gira en torno a Gemini Enterprise, la plataforma de Google Cloud para crear, gestionar y poner en marcha agentes de IA. Según las entidades, estos agentes ayudarán a los equipos del banco a resumir información financiera compleja, automatizar tareas rutinarias y organizar mejor su trabajo diario.

La colaboración se divide en tres líneas. La primera es el análisis de datos y la IA basada en agentes: los equipos usarán Gemini Enterprise para extraer información útil de grandes volúmenes de datos, gestionar documentos, clasificar y resumir contenidos y tomar decisiones internas con más rapidez.

La segunda línea es la infraestructura híbrida y la ciberseguridad. El entorno privado de CaixaBank se combinará con la infraestructura de Google Cloud con el fin de aumentar la resiliencia y la escalabilidad de los sistemas y la disponibilidad de los servicios. También se incorporan herramientas de detección de amenazas y monitorización, dentro de un marco de gobernanza y uso responsable de la IA que contempla además los riesgos emergentes asociados a esta tecnología, como los detectados con el modelo Mythos.

La tercera es la formación de la plantilla, con programas y servicios profesionales para facilitar el uso de las nuevas herramientas.

Para coordinar los proyectos, el banco ha creado una división de IA y Data, dirigida por Juan Arandilla. La iniciativa forma parte del Plan Estratégico 2025-2027, que destina 5.000 millones de euros a la transformación digital y a la contratación de 1.000 profesionales tecnológicos.

Empleados y clientes

CaixaBank prevé que la tecnología afecte tanto a la gestión interna como a la relación con los clientes. Para los empleados, la automatización de tareas repetitivas debería reducir el tiempo dedicado a trámites y dejar más margen para otras funciones, como el asesoramiento financiero personalizado.

Para los clientes, el mejor tratamiento de los datos permitirá personalizar productos y servicios y ofrecer más opciones de autoservicio. El banco cuenta con más de 13 millones de clientes digitales en España.

BBVA y Santander, con OpenAI

El anuncio de CaixaBank llega después de que sus dos principales competidores en el mercado bancario español cerraran el año pasado sendos contratos con OpenAI.

BBVA extendió en diciembre de 2025 el uso de ChatGPT Enterprise a sus 120.000 empleados en todo el mundo. Antes había realizado un piloto en el que se crearon más de 2.900 GPT personalizados para tareas como el análisis de riesgos de crédito y la asistencia jurídica.

Santander firmó en agosto un contrato con OpenAI con el que aspiraba a ser un banco «nativo en IA». Preveía desplegar herramientas como ChatGPT Enterprise entre decenas de miles de trabajadores para cambiar la atención al cliente, la gestión de productos y el análisis de conversaciones en tiempo real.

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Siemens ha dotado a la planta de hidrógeno que Galp Energia construye en Portugal de un enfoque digital desde el diseño, con software específico y una combinación de productos que, según la firma, muestran cómo la tecnología puede guiar el desarrollo de este tipo de instalaciones.

Las obras se desarrollan en el GalpH2Park de Galp, una instalación de 100 MW destinada a producir hasta 15.000 toneladas de hidrógeno renovable al año y a evitar 110.000 toneladas de CO2 cuando entre en funcionamiento a finales de este año.

Siemens utiliza una cartera de software desarrollada para el sector del hidrógeno con el fin de mejorar la eficiencia operativa y aumentar el valor de las instalaciones de procesamiento.

La empresa señala que un “gemelo digital de procesos predictivo” es un elemento central de Hydrogen Performance Suite, que ofrece datos en tiempo real para optimizar las operaciones y agilizar la toma de decisiones.

Siemens ha explicado que emplea un “conjunto de software integrado” para modelar procesos y gestionar sistemas de análisis y visualización de datos con el fin de proporcionar “información clara y práctica”.

La firma ha destacado la integración del gemelo digital con “fuentes externas”, entre ellas “operadores de red y mercados energéticos”, que da a los responsables de la planta “visibilidad integral” de las instalaciones.

Según Axel Lorenz, vicepresidente ejecutivo de industrias de procesos de automatización de Siemens, GalpH2Park será una de las mayores plantas de hidrógeno renovable de Europa.

“Estamos convencidos de que la innovación digital es la clave para que el hidrógeno renovable sea económicamente viable”, ha añadido.

Con información de Michael Carroll.

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