Neal Doran

Group is falling in line with industry expectations, with a target of reaching Level 4 autonomy across significant swathes of its networks by 2030.

Playbook: Legacy billing environments increasingly imperil CSP agility, yet ungrounded autonomy poses intolerable operational risks. Through an expanding collaboration with AWS, Ericsson is embedding governed, multi-agent artificial intelligence directly into production systems. Read how tier-one CSPs are already executing zero-defect migrations and accelerating product launches on public cloud.

The UK's largest fibre altnet has reported another period of strong revenue and EBITDA growth, but questions emerge over whether its momentum can be sustained in a fast-changing UK fibre market - and what would change if a counterfactual CityFibre-Substantial Group combination were to follow.

Analyst Briefing: Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK, including a CMA spanner in nexfibre‑Netomnia works, BT buying TalkTalk for ‘good of nation's health', CityFibre quietly keeps building, and plenty more…

Telia becomes the latest European telco to announce a round of job cuts, joining a trend of operators reshape workforces, decentralise decision-making, and seek higher returns from maturing fibre and 5G investments.

BT leans into low-key partner Microsoft for latest SOC-as-a-service offering as B2B customers face up to the growing threat of AI-powered attacks.

As demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, Vodafone is targeting a spot at the intersection of cloud expansion, digital sovereignty, and international connectivity with a faster, more automated transport service.

New Ericsson CEO Per Narvinger is beginning to put his stamp on the vendor, streamlining management while identifying satellite-terrestrial convergence and AI RAN as growth opportunities. Persistent AI-driven component inflation means customers may also have to swallow higher prices.

Once headed for the exit, Talkmobile is becoming an increasingly useful Vodafone asset as customer, ARPU, and profit growth accompany a £215m dividend — and the operator-owned value brand becomes one of many gaining strategic importance in the competitive UK mobile market.

In-depth: UK fibreco's owners have refused to offer remedies for the proposed Substantial takeover, challenging the antitrust authority's view of how UK fibre competition would develop without the deal and putting pressure on the regulator to reconsider its assumptions.