Open RAN

Global mobile network infrastructure spending will peak at approximately $92 billion in 2026–2027 before declining 29% to $65 billion by 2031, according to ABI Research’s Indoor, Outdoor, and IoT Network Infrastructure report published March 26, 2026. The drop signals the end of the 5G buildout cycle and the beginning of a transitional period where operators must deliver more capacity with dramatically less capital — a shift that directly reshapes the career trajectory of every service provider network engineer. ...

Samsung and AMD have officially expanded their strategic partnership beyond the Radio Access Network into 5G Core, private networks, and edge AI — marking a pivotal shift from lab verification to commercial deployment. Announced at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, this collaboration now puts AMD EPYC processors at the heart of Samsung’s entire telecom software stack, delivering commercial-grade AI-powered vRAN performance without dedicated hardware accelerators. For service provider engineers, this signals that cloud-native, software-defined architecture is no longer a future roadmap item — it is the production reality operators are deploying today. ...