The Fast Mode

Future Connections, the innovative agentic-first telco solutions provider, and KPN, the leading provider of fixed and mobile networks for telephony, data and television in the Netherlands, announced the signing of a new five-year contract for the provision of technical services to customers across the Netherlands.

AI demand is reshaping expectations around how data center capacity is delivered. The constraint is no longer limited to power availability or access to GPUs and TPUs. Increasingly, it is the ability to bring infrastructure online within ever more compressed timeframes. Enterprises, hyperscalers and AI platform providers are seeking large blocks of GPU-dense capacity on schedules that would have been considered unrealistic just a few years ago.

For most of the last decade, 2030 was the year everyone was referring to when they spoke of 6G. Pre-commercial demonstrations are now targeting 2028, and commercial deployment of a globally interoperable 6G system is being discussed from 2029.

VEON, a global digital operator announced that Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu met with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, following his participation in the 38th plenary session of the Foreign Investors Council (FIC), an advisory consultative body for direct dialogue between the Government of Kazakhstan and investors.

Throughout July, Virgin Media TV customers can enjoy access to 14 premium Asian TV channels at no extra cost, bringing a wealth of South Asian entertainment into homes across the UK. The channels included are part of Virgin Media’s Asian Mela bundle which usually cost £12 per month and offers customers access to the latest dramas, comedy, reality and films plus much more in glorious HD.

As a member of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Cognizant brings the services, security expertise and implementation scale to help enterprises move frontier AI capability into production-grade defense. Cognizant announced it is applying GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber, through its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, to help enterprises move faster from vulnerability discovery to validated, tested fixes.

According to a new AI RAN Advanced Research Report published by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security networks, and data center industries, cumulative AI RAN revenue is projected to reach $35 B over the next five years (2026-2030). However, AI RAN is not expected to expand the overall RAN market.

SoftBank and SoftBank Group announced they will establish SB Neo, a company that will operate a neocloud business in the United States. SB Neo will be established in the United States in July 2026, and 51% owned by SoftBank Corp. and 49% owned by SoftBank Group Corp., and a consolidated subsidiary of SoftBank Corp.

VEON and Mastercard collaborate to accelerate the development of inclusive, intelligent and accessible financial services across Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. The collaboration is designed to bring together VEON’s local digital platforms, customer reach, data-driven capabilities and emerging VEON Digital Finance strategy with Mastercard’s global payments network, technology and financial services expertise.

During 2026, Telia Lietuva will invest EUR 7.1 million in expanding its mobile network. The investment will fund the construction of 50 new base stations, the modernisation of 300 existing sites and the upgrade of around 130 additional locations with new radio equipment. The Company is also starting to deploy the 1,500 MHz spectrum acquired in the recent auction, increasing 5G network capacity to support continued growth in mobile data traffic.